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GCG hosts the 1st Ghana Conference on Technology & Sustainable Development at Columbia Law School and presents the Ghana Technology Park Proposal to the public for the first time. The office of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, a former Harvard economist and current Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, provide funding for the conference.
September 2003
Conference on Ghana’s IT Economy
President Kufuor outlines Ghana’s vision of becoming a middle-income earning economy in the next decade in an address to 300 delegates at the World Leaders Forum at Columbia University, just an hour before the technology conference in a different auditorium on the campus. The World Leaders Forum also features Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.