DreamOval Foundation names five-member board with Moses Cofie as chair

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The DreamOval Foundation, a Ghanaian non-profit that teaches technology skills to young people, has put a new five-person Board of Directors in place. Moses Cofie leads the board, and the foundation's executive director, Afua Asiamah Adjei, also sits on it.

What we know

• The foundation announced a board of five people whose backgrounds span legal practice, corporate audit and finance, running international NGOs, and software engineering.
• Mr Cofie takes the chair. Dyllis Bruce-Cathline is both company secretary and a director, Augustina Ekua Mills is a non-executive director, Kofi Asamoah-Kowri is a director, and Ms Asiamah Adjei is the executive director.
• Ms Asiamah Adjei said the directors' varied professional experience would strengthen the foundation's work with communities and young people, and that the board would help set its vision, mission and values.
• She added that the organisation's 13-year record covers technology and education programmes for youth and for women in Ghana.
• Mr Cofie said he would steer the foundation's strategy towards measurable results and draw on its networks and partnerships as it grows beyond Ghana. “Empowering Africa's youth through technology is at the heart of the African Renaissance,” he said.
• The foundation is a non-profit set up in Ghana in 2013. Its stated aim is to lift the digital knowledge, abilities and equipment of 30 million young Africans who are underserved, by 2063.

Why it matters for Ghana

Community-based digital skills groups such as this one train young people and women who may otherwise lack access to computers and coaching, so the quality of their governance affects how far and how reliably that training reaches. A board with legal, audit and technology expertise is meant to give the foundation stronger oversight as it expands. The foundation's stated 2063 target for 30 million young Africans is a goal it has set for itself and has not yet been measured against results.