Eric Osiakwan

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Biography

Mr. Eric Osiakwan serves as Managing Partner at Chanzo Capital. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at Oze. He served as Board Advisor at Forhey. He serves as a Board Member at Digitech Africa HotelOnline and Rivia. He served as Board Member at Nestsquare. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs, and high-tech startups. Some of these companies and organizations are Angel Africa, Angel Fair Africa, Ghana Cyber City, PenPlusBytes, African Elections Portal, FOSSFA, WABco, GISPA, AfrISPA, GNVC, Internet Research, InHand, Ghana Connect. He serves as a Board Member of Farmerline, Forhey, Hotel Online, Teranga Solutions, Siqueries, SameLogic, eCampus, Bisa App, SeeSayDo, Data Integrated, and Wanjo Foods. He was part of the team that built the TEAMS submarine cable in East Africa and an ICT Consultant for the WorldBank, Soros Foundations, UNDP, USAID, USDOJ, and USDoS, and African governments and private firms. He authored "The KINGS of Africa Digital Economy", co-authored the "Open Access Model", "Negotiating the Net" - the politics of Internet Diffusion in Africa, and "The Internet in Ghana" with the Mosaic Group. He was invited to contribute ideas to Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa. He is a Poptech, TED, Stanford, MIT, and Harvard fellow.