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Chinery-Hesse and his company have won numerous awards and accolades, including the GUBA award in the UK for
Exceptional Achievement, the Ghana Millennium Excellence Award for IT, the Ghana Club 100 Award for the Most Innovative Company, the "SMS" App of the Year Award, the Mobile World Lifetime
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and Tech4Africa. He also played a supporting role in the realm of technology and innovation to many
Ghanaian presidents in their international engagements. He was a TED Fellow and featured heavily in the international media's reportage on technology in Africa, including
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His project "African Echoes" is aimed at creating
African audio books for global consumption, such that for the first time ever Africans are in a position to tell their own stories to a worldwide audience. He was an assessor for the Commercial Courts of Ghana.
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Achievement Award and the Best
Entrepreneur in Information and Communication Technology. He also won the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Texas State University, the first and currently only African recipient of the award.
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In 1991, Chinery-Hesse co-founded theSOFTtribe, one of the leading software houses in Africa. Over the years, the company has pioneered a number of groundbreaking products in the following areas:
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of Africa". Chinery-Hesse also made the list of 15 Black STEM Innovators. In March 2019, he was introduced as the
Commonwealth Chair for Business and Technology Initiatives for Africa.
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