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Home > Ghana trumps mighty Microsoft

Contributor [1]
Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
114 [3]
Article-Summary: 

UK-based Hermann Chinnery-Hesse was on holiday in his home country of Ghana when he accepted a school friend's bet to try to make his fortune in West Africa. In this article, Briony Hale describes how - starting with a battered old personal computer in his bedroom - Hesse developed Ghana's own software firm which, for the moment at least, is holding Microsoft at bay.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/15570 [5]
Country: 
Ghana [6]

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