Mawulolo Heartwill

Web 3 Advocate | Blockchain Educator | Public Speaker | Crypto Compliance & CCI | Building @ReficaAcademy & @CryptoElitess™ |🇬🇭🌏

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

@edemagbana Press necks😅😅

I am seated

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

@SIKAOFFICIAL1 This isn’t significant if ordinary passport holders aren’t a part

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

I hope this gains the needed traction

[MacJordan 👨🏾‍💻🇨🇦🇬🇭 @MacJordaN]

#TechAdvocay 🇬🇭: Ghana should be building Africa’s next generation of tech giants.

Instead, we are debating whether software developers, startup founders, cybersecurity professionals, AI engineers, and freelancers need government approval to work.

If this #NITADraftBill2025 passes in its current form, it could become one of the most dangerous policy mistakes in Ghana’s digital history.

1️⃣. Let’s call this what it is:
A Bill that risks turning innovation into permission.

A young Ghanaian with a laptop, internet connection, and coding skills may now face certification barriers just to participate in the digital economy.

2️⃣. Section 46 of the NITA Draft Bill says no person can be appointed as an ICT professional in a public or private institution unless certified by the Authority.

So now government wants to decide who is “qualified” to work in tech?
That should scare every young Ghanaian.

3️⃣ Tech does not work like traditional bureaucracy.

Some of the best developers in the world are self-taught.
Some learned from YouTube.
Some learned from GitHub.
Some started from internet cafés.

Innovation has never depended on permission slips.

4️⃣ Which major African tech ecosystem became successful through state licensing of developers?

Not Nigeria 🇳🇬
Not Kenya 🇰🇪
Not Rwanda 🇷🇼
Not South Africa 🇿🇦

Those countries focused on startup growth, innovation funding, venture capital, infrastructure, and talent development. Not gatekeeping who can code.

5️⃣ Nigeria passed a @StartupActNg to CREATE an enabling environment for innovation and digital entrepreneurship.

Ghana is discussing legislation that many young developers fear could RESTRICT entry into the ecosystem.
That contrast matters.

6️⃣ Kenya became “Silicon Savannah” because regulators gave innovation room to breathe.

Imagine if M-Pesa had first needed years of licensing bureaucracy before launch. Africa’s fintech revolution may never have happened.

7️⃣ Rwanda is aggressively positioning itself as an innovation destination for AI, fintech, cloud infrastructure, and startups.

Meanwhile Ghana is debating prison terms, licensing structures, and enforcement powers around ICT participation.

How are we competing globally with this mindset?

8️⃣ The Bill gives NITA broad powers to:
• suspend licences
• revoke licences
• prohibit ICT activity
• seize equipment
• approve certain operational changes

This goes far beyond “professional standards.”

9️⃣ The scariest part?
The definitions are broad.
“ICT services.”
“Digital platforms.”
“Related ICT activities.”

In law, broad wording creates uncertainty and uncertainty kills startups.

🔟. Investors hate environments where rules can suddenly expand without clarity.

Young founders avoid ecosystems where regulation feels unpredictable.
Talent relocates where innovation feels safer. This is how brain drain accelerates.

11. Ghana already struggles with:
• youth unemployment
• startup funding gaps
• venture capital shortages
• limited support for creators and builders

The tech ecosystem is one of the few spaces where young people can create global opportunities from Ghana. Why make entry harder?

12. The irony is painful.
The same government talking about digital transformation may now create barriers for the very people driving that transformation.

You cannot build a digital economy while policing innovation like a controlled profession.

13. Every major global tech success story started with experimentation.
Facebook.
Google.
Stripe.
WhatsApp.
Flutterwave.
Paystack.

Most started with builders moving faster than regulation.

14. Regulation is important.
Cybersecurity matters.
Consumer protection matters.
Data governance matters.

But smart regulation protects innovation and bad regulation suffocates it.

15. Ghana needs policies that encourages:
• startups
• AI innovation
• software engineering
• digital freelancing
• remote work
• youth entrepreneurship
• global competitiveness!

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

@MacMillian101 @weloveghana042 We’ve a government that can account… go and blame your government

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

@LongLyf2 OA buses too😤😤

[Wode Maya ® @wode_maya]

I just came out of a dialysis center, and the number of young men there was really alarming. Apparently, many of the cases were linked to the abuse of aphrodisiacs.
Dear young men,Trying to impress a woman by going to extremes isn’t worth risking your health.Take care of your body. No moment of pleasure is worth a lifetime of consequences.

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

Certainly one for the books

Proud of what Richmond and his team has built

[Clerra @Clerratech]

Ghanaian lawyers are still juggling 3–5 tools to manage one case.

We built Clerra to fix that.

One platform for Case & Practice management and Legal Research

No hallucinations. No foreign precedents. Just local, accurate insights.

🎬 Watch the video. DM for a demo.

[Clerra @Clerratech]

Ghanaian lawyers are still juggling 3–5 tools to manage one case.

We built Clerra to fix that.

One platform for Case & Practice management and Legal Research

No hallucinations. No foreign precedents. Just local, accurate insights.

🎬 Watch the video. DM for a demo.

[Pablo 🥷🏾 📍 Mushanghai @africanbuilder_]

🌍 Africa Web3 & Blockchain News this Week..
Fresh week, fresh moves. Here's what you need to know 👇🧵

🇬🇭 @blockchain launches in Ghana (March 9)After 700% growth in Nigeria, officially expanded into Ghana already had 140% organic user growth before launch.

🇬🇭 2. Ghana SEC admits 11 firms into crypto regulatory sandbox 12-month pilot under VASP Act 2025. Firms include Blu Penguin, HanyPay, Goldbod, Africoin, Hyro Exchange, KoinKoin, Whitebits, Vaulta, Xchain and more.

🇪🇹 3. Ethiopia clamps down on P2P crypto transactions The National Bank of Ethiopia said crypto regulations are on the way, but peer-to-peer transactions paired with the birr are outlawed in the meantime. Mariblock A significant crackdown in one of Africa's top Bitcoin mining nations.

🇳🇬 4. TechNova Summit - Abakaliki, Nigeria (March 13–14)The TechNova Summit, held at the Ecumenical Centre in Abakaliki, brought together students, founders, investors and ecosystem players to explore Web3, AI, fintech and innovation across Africa. The TechNova Summit Born in Southeast Nigeria with a continental vision.

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

The adoption we prayed for

Happy to see it come to pass

🥳🥳🥳

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

Am I the only one whose mtn calls are filled with this scratchy sounds that makes it difficult to even talk or hear the other person on the call regardless of where you’re. The network has been bad for calls for days now 😤😤 @MTNGhana please fix this 😣
#fixmtnnetwork

[𝖢𝖧𝖱𝖨𝖲𝖫𝖨𝖫🇬🇭 @chrislil_gh]

BREAKING NEWS: Jesus Christ is coming soon kindly Rt to remind someone on your timeline.

[EL-DAD @ChristDeKing]

The story of Herman Chinery-Hesse. A Ghanaian tech guru who is behind the corporate software both in Ghana and internationally.

May his soul RIP

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

@asemota Literally every day I meet not less than 20 EVs when driving around… we’re catching up so fast

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

I hope I didn’t come late to the party

#FuguFriday to all our brothers in Zambia

Celebrating culture and authentic Ghanaian Heritage

@gbcnews_ @TV3 @WodeMaya @ghanatourismGTA

#WearYourCulture #ghanameetszambia #vahaafrica #wearfugufriday

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

Mr President please give their president a #FUGU from your collections. It would help them appreciate it the more🥰🥳🥳

Today is Ghana #FUGU and #batakari day😅😅😅 @wode_maya

#AfricanPride #Fugu #Batakari #NorthernRegion #ghanameetszambia #WearYourCulture #VahaAfrica

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

While our Zambian brothers and sisters are still figuring out what this our traditional apparel is, let me take us back to 2022 when I receive my first #Fugu as a gift from one of the first blockchain communities i established in #Tamale.

1/4

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

By choosing the "warrior's dress" of the North over a Western suit, they sent a message of decolonization and African unity.

On this said day, it was given to me by the community as a show of appreciation to myself for the leadership towards their understanding of cryptocurrency

[Mawulolo Heartwill @admheartwill]

@don_mike1 @asher_kine The comment I was waiting for