Thursday, 26 August 2010 07:29
ACCRA, Ghana August 17 to 19, 2010 – A diverse group of ICT stakeholders comprising Ministers, regulators, telecom operators and leading ICT global brands convened at the 5th Annual Connecting Rural Communities (CRC) 2010 conference in Accra, Ghana to discuss and explore potential future solutions for bridging the digital divide in Africa. Organized by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and hosted in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications, Ghana, National Communications Authority and the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), the three-day conference was formally opened by Ghana’s Minister for Communications, Honourable Haruna Iddrisu.
The conference, with the theme, “Connecting rural Africa on a cost-effective, sustainable and profitable basis through Public Private Peoples Partnerships” was attended by an impressive audience of ICT stakeholders from over twenty countries, and supported by some of the leading ICT organizations and associations such as Intel, MTN, Intelsat, Ltd., Seamless, Telkom Group, Research In Motion, Ericsson, Flexenclosure, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., Amara Raja, Coral Telecom, Bharti Airtel Limited, Phase3 Telecom Limited, Grintek Ewation (Pty) Ltd, K-NET, TKM MAESTRO Ltd., MainOne Cable Company and GCNet, indicative of increased interest in the programme.
Grintek Ewation attended the Forum to market its own home grown Spectrum Monitoring and Direction Finding solution to the Africa Telecoms Regulators. Here Mr. Douglas Armstrong (Regional Marketing Manager for ITU) can be seen with the Deputy Minister of Communications –Hon. Gideon Quarcoo (centre) and the Director General of Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA) – Mr. Paarock VanPercy.
