About the Speaker
Mac-Jordan
Degadjor
Ghanaian tech blogger and media entrepreneur
Mac-Jordan Degadjor is a Ghanaian tech blogger and the co-founder of New Africa Media, a digital media company that focuses on promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. As the communications director of Blogging Ghana, he helped orchestrate online coverage of the 2012 presidential elections. He was also a contributor to Global Voices Online. As part of his efforts to increase online connectivity, Degadjor organized BarCamps, a series of workshops that taught Ghanaians how to use the Internet. Degadjor was a 2011 Knight Digital Media Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the State Department’s first Ghanaian Internet Freedom Fellow in 2013.