By now you may have seen our new GhanaConscious look at the new website. We’re changing the overall look of our website to capture an exciting and user-friendly image that is indicative of our mission and community.

Composed of an African map and the three colors we often see in many African flags, the new logo incorporates the three colored dots from the old GhanaConscious logo and the concept of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS captures the notion of idea sharing from a variety of sources. In our case, it involves the syndication of content from subject related postings or sound waves contributed in an African context.

While the colors red, gold and green take on different meanings for each African country, setting them against the backdrop of an African map represents the generation of ideas that occurs on GhanaConscious from all of Africa. Our blogs and forums may spring from different backgrounds, locations, ideologies and disciplines, but we all have one end goal.

It is our hope that the new logo will renew an interest and enthusiasm to help make the GhanaConscious a community of people who take particular interest in discussing issues affecting its cultural neighborhood (primarily Ghana) and generate homegrown solutions for development.

As a user, you have the same capabilities — keeping a blog and contributing to a forum or blog discussions. GhanaConscious also gives you the opportunity to network with people from various academic and social backgrounds. If it’s been a while since you visited, log in, update your profile and help us learn more about you. And while you are it, join a group at Homefront (also set to have a new look soon!) Feel free to email comments about the GhanaConscious website to us.

Type away and let the intellectual talk begin...but don’t let it end there!

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TSOOBOI!

The First Official GhanaThink T-Shirt Design Contest.

Get involved in GhanaThinking activity!

Design a T-Shirt With THE GhanaThink Foundation Logo and the Motto: "GhanaThink.org: Less Talk, More Action". Be as creative as possible.

Prizes include Profile Featuring on the GhanaThink.org website and Gong-gong Newsletter, free GhanaThink T-Shirts, 100+ Extra User Points on GhanaThink.org and GhanaConscious.

Entry Format:
Format Should be an Image File Format: JPEG, GIF, PSD, PNG etc.
Design Should Include Front and Back Designs.

Let Your GhanaThinking Creative Juices Flow!!

You can use the following website to design a T-shirt of your choice.
Custom ink
Good Storm

Ask questions and discuss the competition here

In July of 2005, we announced The GhanaThink Foundation Invitational Programming Contest dubbed 1.GTPC.06. The main aim of the competition was to encourage and motivate graduating seniors of Ghanaian tertiary institutions to design and develop their senior projects for the Ghanaian market which would not be prototypes for their departments only.

The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm by the GhanaThink community and we received donations for the prize money. Sadly, the same enthusiasm did not come from the target academic community.
Among the schools invited, only students from Kwame Nkrumah University for Science and Technology (KNUST) registered for the competition. A total of 4 groups registered, with only one group completing the competition successfully.

After a thorough verification of the entry, we are proud to announce the winners of our maiden programming contest. Eyram Tawia and Francis Dittoh supervised by Dr. J.B. Hayfron-Acquah will receive a cash prize of $300. Their project was a 3D Computer Game called The Sword of Sygos. The game was implemented using the Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET programming language and utilised the Truevision3D engine.

The story line from the manual reads:

The King of Rome, Aribanis and his son Horutius, has their kingdom under attack by an evil dark force Antobis and his army. Antobis has invaded Rome and taken over the castle and held Horutius captive behind bars.

Horutius had the chance to escape into the woods with the help of Cyprus, an old wizard who knew about a prophecy. The prophecy of Sygos states ; "if a non royal should rule Rome for 5 earth days, Konkos, the invinsible dark demon would descend and rule earth and humanity would be gone forever."

Only He with the Sword of Sygos can destroy him.

In search of the Sword of Sygos, Horutius returns home to fight for his rightful throne. All within 5 earth days.

Francis and Eyram believe that 3D graphics is a good platform for teaching. They also believe that as Ghana's IT sector develops there will be a need to break out of the traditional sectors like databases and networking into 3D graphics development.

Congratulations to Francis and Eyram for winning the 1.GTPC.06. They will be receiving their cash prize of $300 within the next week and will be profiled in the GhanaThink newsletter Gong-Gong. Their thesis will be made available on Africathink in pdf format.

Again congratulations to Francis Dittoh and Eyram Tawia

We would also like to express our gratitude to the GhanaThink community judges for their support and patience.

Welcome to the revamped GhanaThink website! We have been working over the past months to incorporate your feedback to bring you the new look. We hope this new theme and structure will make information about GhanaThink more accessible.
GhanaThink's subdomains GhanaConscious, Tsooboi!, AfricaThink and Homefront will be moulting into new looks VERY SOON!

The site now sports our new logo which symbolizes progress, ideas-to-reality; less talk and more action. It consists of a light bulb, a clock and an outline of the African continent. The light bulb with the outline of Africa represents homegrown solutions and ideas. The clock divides the light bulb into two segments, representing the passage of time. The bold segment implies implemented ideas and solutions while the grey section represents work that remains to be done.

Don't forget to login to GhanaConscious, update your profiles and network with the Ghanaconscious community. It is our hope that the additional profile information will encourage you to communicate with other members. But don't let it end there. Spread the word by inviting your friends to join the GhanaThink community!

Feel free to email comments on the website to info @ ghanathink . org . Keep checking out the newsletter for other updates.

It's time to move...
TSOOBOI!