About Us
Founded in 2006, the Ghana ThinkTank is a worldwide network of think tanks creating strategies to resolve local problems in the "developed" world. The network began with think tanks from Ghana, Cuba and El Salvador, and has since expanded to include Serbia, Mexico and Ethiopia. In a recent project, we sent problems collected in Wales to think tanks in Ghana, Mexico, Serbia, Iran, and a group of incarcerated girls in the U.S. Prison system.
These think tanks analyze the problems and propose solutions, which we put into action back in the community where the problems originated – whether those solutions seem impractical or brilliant.
Some of these actions have produced workable solutions, but others have created intensely awkward situations, as we play out different cultures' assumptions about each other.
It's become a way to explore the friction caused by solutions that are generated in one context and applied elsewhere, while revealing the hidden assumptions that govern crosscultural interactions.
Contact the Ghana Think Tank at ghanathinktank at gmail.com
News
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Ghana ThinkTank at the Hong Kong/ Shenzen Biennial
Dec 19, 11 • Photos from Ghana ThinkTank’s installation and participation in the 2011 Hong Kong/ Shenzen Bi-city Biennial. The Ghana ThinkTank in Shenzen was Christopher Robbins, John Ewing, and Carmen...
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Occupy The Ads #d18!
Dec 19, 11 • As part of IMMIGRANTS OCCUPY, Immigrant Movement International’s December 18 call for actions for International Migrant’s Day , Ghana ThinkTank posted Guerilla bus ads promoting the...
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Ghana ThinkTank at Hong Kong / Shenzen Bienniale
Dec 3, 11 • Ghana ThinkTank at Hong Kong / Shenzen Bienniale...
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Ghana ThinkTank to work in Lebanon with the U.S. State Department, Bronx Museum of Art, and the Arab Image Foundation.
Oct 18, 11 • Ghana ThinkTank to work in Lebanon with the U.S. State Department, Bronx Museum of Art, and the Arab Image Foundation. More info here… U.S. Department of State Launches smARTpower, Will Use...
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Analog Updatr
Oct 17, 11 • One problem had to do with people being divided from each other by computers even when they share physical space. So, our Zapotan Think Tank in Mexico came up with the idea of a sort of physical...