Day 1 is in the books

We have (aside from dinner) successfully completed Day 1 of our assignment. We had a great meeting with CGM Joe Mensah and Otema Yireynki as well as our CDS partners, Amanda MacArthur and Barbara Gbologah-Quaye. We have a good idea of what we think our scope looks like and have already started to brainstorm on areas to investigate. We'll learn a lot more on Monday when we meet with the AMA and the Mayor of Accra and have presentations and discussions with the key stakeholders from the assembly. We also had a great session with IBM Ghana - of the 15 some people who joined us (out of 23 in IBM Ghana), all but 2 are less than 1 year with IBM. That goes to show given that the IBM Ghana office is 2 years old. There is a lot of energy and potential with this team - they are in a really exciting place at an exciting time. The growth and potential for IBM in Ghana is fantastic. The potential for leading edge projects around eGovernment and mobile in particular is huge - and exciting from a leading global and Africa repeatable solutions point of view. I hope the team in Ghana takes us up on our offer for mentoring and coaching - there is a lot I would like to learn about the solutions that this team ends up developing and delivering! (Repost from IBM connections blog)