It's high time Ghanaian kids were exposed to technology, according to Emil Acolatse, chief executive officer of Free Inspiration Reaching Everyone (FIRE).

He claims that young people in Ghana who are digitally savvy might use their skills to earn money and hire others to work in the industry.

Mr. Acolatse said investing in business ideas was essential to producing successful young people in the nation while speaking to the media at the Ghana to the Moon business and technology conference in Accra over the weekend.

Participants in the conference made pitches for concepts and presented their business plans in groups in order to compete for funding to launch their companies.

The team with the best business plan received an amount of US$1000 to kick-start their project.

He said the youth can only be technologically inclined “By giving it to them, showing them how to use it and the monetization of it. So we have access to resources where with these trainings, we are able to literally sit at home on a laptop, computer, and be able to make money. We want to introduce them to a space that is not privy here [in Ghana].”

“The event is called Ghana to the Moon business and tech conference. It is a pitch competition where we are investing in ideas, we allow them to come together as a group and form company and provide business plan and the incentive we are providing them with is US$1,000 for the ideas,” he said.