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GYC MONTHLY DIALOGUE SERIES EVENT MARCH 20TH, 2010 Click for More
Welcome Message Welcome to GhanaYouthOnline.org, the website of the Ghana Youth Council. It is designed to be an online resource for everyone who is interested in the development of Ghana's youth and young adult population. Click for More
*NEW* Ghana Youth Council Media Page You can now read minutes, see pictures and watch videos of GYC meetings! Our members all around the world can now keep up on what is going on with GYC. Let us all join the dialogue, get involved and advocate for change! Click Here
International Trailblazers Meet Ghanaian and international leaders various fields. Learn about the projects they are involved in.
Learn how Iqbal Quadir uses Technology for Development
Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development. Iqbal Quadir is an advocate of business as a humanitarian tool. With GrameenPhone, he brought the first commercial telecom services to poor areas of Bangladesh.
Watch Prof. George Ayittey's Message for Africa's Youth
Ghanaian economist George Ayittey was a voice in the wilderness for many years, crying out against the corruption and complacency that -- more than any other factor, he believes -- are the bedrock problems of many troubled Africa states. "We call our governments vampire states, which suck the economic vitality out of the people," he says. His influential book Africa Unchained has helped unleash a new wave of activism and optimism -- especially in the African blogosphere, where his notion of cheetahs-versus-hippos has become a standard shorthand. The "Cheetah Generation," he says, is a "new breed of Africans," taking their futures into their own hands, instead of waiting for politicians to empower them. (He compares them to the previous "Hippo Generation," who are lazily stuck complaining about colonialism, yet doing nothing to change the status quo.) Ayittey is a Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University in Washington, DC
Our Featured Trailblazer: Patrick Awuah Patrick Awuah left a comfortable life in Seattle to return to Ghana and co-found a liberal arts college, Ashesi University. Why? Because he believes that Ghana's failures in leadership -- and he gives several mind-boggling examples -- stem from a university system that fails to train real leaders. In a talk that brought the TEDGlobal audience enthusiastically to their feet, he explains how a true liberal arts education -- steeped in critical thinking, idealism, and public service -- can produce the quick-thinking, ethical leaders needed to move his country forward. (Recorded June 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania. Duration: 17:42.) |
