Creating Emerging Markets: Interview with Nii Narky Quaynor

Creating Emerging Markets

Date: January 14, 2014

Summary:

Nii Narku Quaynor, known as the "father of the internet in Africa," founded Ghana's first internet service provider in 1994, pioneering internet access in West Africa. Despite challenges and conflicts with authorities, he played a crucial role in expanding internet technology across sub-Saharan Africa. In the interview, Quaynor discusses the early days of the internet, his contributions to ICANN, and his later ventures in website development and e-commerce, detailing his educational and professional journey in the U.S. and Ghana, including time at Dartmouth and the Digital Equipment Corporation.

Read about the interview here.

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