Ghana Tech Futures- Alex Bram, Bernard Avle Panel 2, GSA practitioners panel
Channel: Reginold Royston, PhD
Date: 28/10/2022

Panelists: 
• Bernard Avle, CITI FM Online, host and director of news programming — Avle is a broadcast journalist and also General manager at Citi FM, one of Ghana's most influential radio stations. He is also a member of the governing council of the Global Marketing Network in Ghana. As a founding director of iJourno Africa, he trains and creates opportunities for participants to practice citizen journalism and equip them with tools to cover local issues. https://citifmonline.com

• Alex Bram, HubTel CEO, an e-commerce platform  — Technology entrepreneur based in Accra, Ghana, Alex Bram Co-founded Hubtel in May 2005. He has led Hubtel's pivot from a leading SMS messaging provider (smsGH) into Ghana's leading payment services provider with an expanding market share in the growing quick-commerce industry. He also holds a certificate from the Stanford LEAD Program in corporate innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Bram was named Fintech CEO of the Year at the 2019 Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards. https://hubtel.com/ 

• Sela Adjei, National Film and Television Institute, AI4AFRIKA - Sela Adjei is an artist based in Ghana with more than 10 years of working experience. He has a background in Communication Design and African Art from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He received his PhD in African Studies at the Institute of African Studies, at University of Ghana-Legon. https://www.gringhana.com/sela-adjei-educational-background

with comments by Wisdom Tetteh, Marcia Abonie, Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow, and Seyram Alve

Videography: BEYOURSELF multimedia (Ibrahim), Tamale, Ghana 

The Ghana Studies Association holds a triennial conference inviting scholars, professionals, researchers, artists and writers to discuss their work relevant to Ghana, West Africa, Africa broadly and its diasporas.   GSA is a professional association and an international affiliate of the African Studies Association-USA. Learn more about GSA at http://ghanastudies.org.