DocumentCode :
1127919
Title :
The African hacker [software development]
Author :
Zachary, G. Pascal
Volume :
42
Issue :
8
fYear :
2005
Firstpage :
24
Lastpage :
29
Abstract :
This paper narrates the success story of Hermann Chinery-Hesse, chief of Soft Tribe Ltd. located at Ghana, West Africa. Chinery-Hesse has made a small fortune writing software, working as a systems architect, and selling computer code to hundreds of businesses in his country. Through Soft, Chinery-Hesse has also been providing training programs for the country´s growing population of full-time programmers. His dream remains to expand software in Ghana, to make more money and to show the world that despite the often depressing headlines about poverty and mayhem in Africa, there are opportunities for technical talent.
Keywords :
DP industry; information technology; software development management; software houses; Soft Tribe Ltd.; computing; electronics; information technology; software industry; telecommunications; Companies; Computer hacking; Fuels; Generators; Photography; Plastics; Power generation; Programming profession; Sea measurements; Writing;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9235
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.2005.1491223
Filename :
1491223
Link To Document :
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