Ernestina Edem Appiah
Ernestina Edem Appiah (born c 1977) is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur. She founded the Ghana Code Club as an after-school program to teach children how to write computer programs. In 2015, she was named to the "100 Women (BBC), BBC 100 Most Inspirational Women" list for her work to promote computing in Ghana. Biography Appiah's passion for computing began when she was employed as a secretary for a local information technology company. Inspired by the work of her colleagues, but earning less than 10% of their salary as a secretary, she learned how to code in HTML on her own, teaching herself to build websites. She transferred her IT skills into a virtual assistance business, which would become her first company. Ghana Code Club In 2007, she founded her first social enterprise, Healthy Career Initiative as a means of sharing and mentoring girls in ICT. This gave rise to the foundations of the Ghana Code Club established in the same year. Ghana Code Club is a non governmental ...
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