Ewuraba, ICITD and UGBS organizes fashTECH 2009

In collaboration with the International Center for IT and Development (ICITD), Southern University (USA) and the University of Ghana Business School, Ewuraba, under the sponsorship of the PearlRichards Foundation, organized the first ever fashion and technology workshop in Africa - fashTECH '09. fashTECH is a forum which seeks to explore the interaction between fashion and technology in today’s information economy.

This first workshop was organized in Ghana at the University of Ghana Business School and had 125 attendees (58 per cent being women). The attendees were MBA Scholars and entrepreneurs from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including MIS, finance, HR, and Public Administration.  The workshop chair was Dr Richard Boateng, founder of Ewuraba.com. The workshop is a pre-conference event for 2010 International Conference on ICT for Africa (ICIA), which will be held in Yaounde, Cameroon, 25-28th March, 2010 (see www.ictforafrica.org).