My Life in Tech&

How you can make it

Agana Agana-NsiireIntruptiv Technologeis

Google Developer Group

Ghana Developer Community

It all began here

1994: Toshiba Satellite, 16MB RAM,200MB

Hard drive, Windows 3.1

Doom, Prince of Persia, Carmen, Word

Perfect, DOS

Studied science in Secondary School

Self taught Visual Basic and web design

The Braintlebox

Zoology, University of Ghana

MEST

MEST and Beyond

Learned Technology

Programming

Software development Life Cycle

Project management

Version control (SVN, Git, Mercurial)

Learned business

The power of research (market data)

Customer development

Strategy

Marketing

Customer service

Case studies

Company culture

Intruptiv

TechnologiesSir Agana-Nsiire AganaSir Nelson KlutseSir Eric Hackman

Standards

Impact

Respect

Some of our work

Community Advocacy

Community Advocacy

Workshops

Boot camps

Code labs

Open discussions

Hackathons

Opportunity

Payments

Online payemnts (Ozimbo Pay, iWallet, mPawa Payments)

POS (Square)

Local content apps

Translation software (Kasahorow)

Data journalism

African games (Leti Arts)

eCommerce

MOTI

Ahonya, Tonaton, Google Trader

Social Media

http://youngrf.com

Some Roadblocks

Payments

Mobile money – might seem cumbersome, but talk

to Abdul-Latif

Visa integration

Third party payment services

Pay with airtime? Possible on MTNPlay

Public unawareness

Usability education (onboarding, walkthroughs)

Public education (Talk with Kane, GhanaThink)

Varied technical expertise

Join developer communities, share ideas and

collaborate on problem solving

Finding and using resources

Google Developer Group mailing list

Ghana Developer Community mailing list

Hacks Hackers (Accra) Start one here?

Ghana Innovation Network for Knowledge

Sharing (GINKS) Newsletter

News digests on ICT events and

announcements

Blogging Ghana

Finding and using resources

Developer.android.com

Develper.apple.com

Thenewboston.org

Techy-africa.com

Developer.facebook.com

developersinafrica.com

Why you should compete

MTNPlay offers a local ECOSYSTEM that

will foster continuous creation and

innovation.

Immediate visibility to your market

Payment is sorted out

Hone your tech/product development skills

Learn new things and have fun!

Winning formula

Keep it simple (Dropbox)

Keep it intuitive (Twitter)

Make it beautiful/delightful (Path)

Talk to your users (Dropifi)

Be data informed, not data driven

(@andrewchen)

Follow the challenge rules carefully

Thank you

Quesitons?

/aganansiire

@AganaAgana nsiire@gmail.com