Preparing partnership project “Connecting the unconnected” with BLUETOWN and CARE
Goaso, Ghana:
Fact-finding Mission with BLUETOWN and CARE preparing partnership project ‘Connecting the unconnected’. Digital innovation may be the key for youth in Africa to create new jobs and a more prosperous future. Read more and see video in the Linkedin post below.
On behalf the DK-based internet connectivity providing company BLUETOWN Louise Kjaer initiated and has developed this 5-year partnership jointly with the non-governmental organization CARE; With support from Danida the two organizations join forces to help particularly young African farmers build capacity and ownership of their own destiny.
This video is a snapshot of inputs gathered when travelling together across Ghana to listen and learn how best to assist in co-creating sustainable, tech-enabled job opportunities; it shows our conversation with youth at a local senior technical high school in Western Ghana, an area where the majority of people are cocoa farmers.
We wanted to learn how internet access and digital solutions can improve prospects for youth. It is the assumption that by increasing use of technology in agriculture, it becomes more attractive and rewarding for young people to go into agro-business and thereby increases their standard of living. individual, supports national growth, and strengthens BLUETOWN’s Wi-Fi connectivity business, working with the vision to make modern connectivity accessible and affordable for everyone.