Sunday 29 May 2011

5 Twitter profiles to follow if interested in African development

Ory Okolloh is a Kenyan activist who founded Ushahidi.com. Her tweets cover issues of corruption and politics issues in Africa. She currently holds the position of Policy Manager for Africa with Google
William Easterly is a professor of Economics at New York University.  His tweets covers economic growth and foreign aid in various countries, including countries in Africa.
Global development is a section of The Guardian UK’s online publication, which is in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Their tweets covers events, updates and opinions with regards to the Millennium Development Goals
Emeka Okafor is a venture catalyst and entrepreneur and was the director for TED Global 2007 that took place in Tanzania. His tweets focus on entrepreneurship, new technology and opportunities in Africa. He also has blog called Timbuktu Chronicles - http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/
World Bank Africa is the African arm of the international organization – World Bank. Their tweets focus on the work the Bank is doing and the developments taking place in Africa

Tuesday 17 May 2011

Welcome

Welcome All,
The BTC Africa blog site is dedicated to discussing issues pertaining to African development. This blog would provide analysis of news and activities occurring in this sector. Major issues that would be discussed include entrepreneurship, human rights, women and child empowerment, development finance, health issues, etc.
BTC Africa is an organization that has identified ways to improve service offerings in the non proft sector, thus it provides free services covering several areas including, promotional strategy development, programme management system coordination, fundraising strategy development and volunteer programme development.BTC Africa was founded by Dolapo Adejuyigbe, a programme specialist at FinMark Trust (a development finance think tank).
This blog site is inspired the organization’s tagline ‘Be the Change, Voice the Change’
We all hope you enjoy what this blog has to offer.