Who/What is Ghanathink ?
We are an Africa-focused think-tank based in Ghana. We aim, among other things,
o To serve as a source and reservoir of ideas for the advancement of all humanity, beginning from the society and culture that has most influenced our way of thinking about the world—our cultural neighborhood—Ghana;
o To organize the mass of brilliant Ghanaian talent around the world in the service of their cultural neighborhood.
GhanaThink seeks to mobilize and deploy Diasporean volunteer labor for the primary benefit of Ghana, and consequently of Africa and the whole world, for we are each our brother’s keeper.
Our History
The GhanaThink Foundation is an outgrowth of GhanaConscious, an online community formed by university students from Ghana on October 2, 2001 out of a desire to mobilize other Ghanaian students in the Diaspora for service to Ghana.
Our Legal Status
The GhanaThink Foundation is a registered non-governmental not-for-profit organization in Ghana with registration number G1, 103.
It is registered as an international and Ghanaian policy research organization in the state of Connecticut, USA.
It is also registered in the state of Massachusetts, USA, where its registration number is 000890442.
The foundation is currently working towards IRS code 501 (c)(3) status.
Our Working Principles
GhanaThink thrives on the free flow of information, a friendly atmosphere and the loss of the paranoia of our neighbors. We want to make a difference so we choose to do it differently.
Our principles are motivated by this higher purpose: to restore the confidence of our peoples, especially the most disadvantaged.
We believe in homegrown solutions to problems, because these are inherently more robust.
All labor is purely voluntary.
Our watchwords are:
o Sincerity
o Integrity
o Responsibility
o Commitment
o Acceptance of diversity
Our Constitution
Our constitution together with our creed and other publications can be found on our publications site Africathink.
The branches of GhanaThink
GhanaConscious
This is the online GhanaThink community (web portal). The ghanaConscious portion of The GhanaThink Foundation website carries news items and announcements of interest to the GhanaThink community. Its vision is to provide a support group for free-thinking individuals and groups interested in tackling the challenges faced by Africans today. By connecting all GhanaThink-minded people through the medium of the internet, it allows their ideas to find expression through Tsooboi, Homefront, and AfricaThink.
Tsooboi
The Tsooboi section of GhanaThink encourages and co-ordinates innovative projects and ventures that bring the best of Ghanaian ingenuity and culture back to its people. It provides the over-arching structure for each project designer/group to interact with the GhanaThink community. Tsooboi projects are undertaken mainly by Ghana-conscious youth. To ensure independence of these Projects, each project manager will be in charge of assigning positions to his/her team. The GhanaThink Foundation will provide monetary/publication support as is necessary but the extent to which The GhanaThink Foundation is involved will determine how often a full report must be submitted to the Managing Executive. For projects where The GhanaThink Foundation holds more than 45% in shares, the project manager/administrator will automatically be a member of the Managing Executive.
HomeFront
This is GhanaThink in action. Its vision is to implement and support tangible GhanaThink ideas as generated by the GhanaThink Community and Tsooboi. It would also facilitate the phasing of projects out of Tsooboi into commercial and independent ventures.
AfricaThink
The publications wing of GhanaThink is called AfricaThink. It is responsible for documenting for public use the output—newsletters, press releases, books, papers, conference proceedings—of the various activities of the Foundation.
