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
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