President Bush shakes hands with Ghana's President John Kufuor after making a joint statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. President Bush spoke briefly on the state of the U.S. economy
President Bush walks with Ghana's President John Kufuor, after they both made statements in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008
I was wondering if we did any substantial business with Ghana and then remembered that I’d shown 2 videos from the World Bank on tech projects in Ghana to my Policy class.
It looks like they are really embracing information technology as a way to increased trade and improving jobs and education. They are even creating their own educational software in which the characters speak English with a Ghanaian accent. It was interesting to hear one of the teachers say that Ghanaian children were computer crazy and wanted to do everything on the computer - and this in a place that has unstable electricity and net access!
In the prior government, people had jobs guaranteed by the government, but no real work; you didn’t have to produce. Now with more capitalism, they are working hard to be competitive in trade and to have real jobs; no more getting paid for sitting around!