e-Commerce And Renewable Energy
e-Commerce and Renewable Energy (eCARE) is supported by Ghana Telecom, Kumasi Institute of Technology and Environment, United Nations Foundation, and United Nations Environment Programme. eCARE offers opportunities for rural Ghanaians to become entrepreneurs by owning Rural Business Centres that include Information and Communication Technologies (i.e. phones,computer) and are powered by solar energy.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
eCARE Project Team inspecting works on container conversion
eCARE Project Team interacts with some artisans during the container conversion
Some model containers ready for branding
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Entrepreneurs watching the demontration of new M2M machine for the eCARE centres. The participants were very enthusiastic and showed appreciation to the project partners, resource persons, organizers and sponsors of the training programme. They were appreciative of the opportunity Ghana Telecom and Partners have given them to acquire knowledge, attitudes and skills to manage the RBCs.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Crowd wainting their turn to enter the new eCARE Centre
Mr. Joseph Abanyin, eCARE Manager giving his address
In a speech read on his behalf by Mr. Osei Assibey, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, urged the people of Sakora Wonoo to make maximum use of the ICT facility to enhance their socio-economic well being. He said, the eCARE centres are providing rural inhabitants with jobs, thus complementing government’s efforts in raising the living standards of individuals in rural communities.
Ghana Telecom Ashanti Regional Manager Nana Boffour Awuah
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Rachel Payne (Google.org) interviewing Joseph A. Abayin (eCARE Manager) eCARE, KITE, AREED, Technoserve and Google.org team in a discusion. eCARE-AREED MEETS WITH GOOGLE.ORG TEAM A team fromGoogle.org, the philanthropic arm of Google the leading search engine in the world called on the eCARE-AREED team whilst on a working visit to Ghana. A combined 8-member eCARE- AREED team met with Rachel Payne, Google.org Team Member and Nick, the Technoserve Country Director in Ghana (Nick happens to be running the Google.Org Ghana show at the moment).Google.org sponsored the business plan competition organized by Technoserve, an international NGO. The Ghanaian team was made up of two AREED entrepreneurs, Gladymannuel (host) and Anasset, two eCARE entrepreneurs (both of whom had traveled from their locations outside of Accra that morning just for the meeting), Joseph and Fred members of GT eCARE team, Frank and Harriett from KITE. The google.org team took the opportunity to listen to presentations from development oriented projects such as eCARE and AREED. A presentation from the eCARE project was delivered by Mr. Joseph Ampeaw Abanyin, the eCARE Manager on project origins, current status and the way forward.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Friday, September 22, 2006