President John Dramanai Mahama, has commended influential radio station, Citi FM, and its partners for organizing the biggest event in the ICT industry, dubbed African Mobile and ICT Expo (MOBEX) in Accra.
“I wish to commend the organizers for creating this platform to facilitate interaction and sharing of ideas and experiences, and I’m hoping that the next big idea will be borne out of this interaction and debate that you are having here in the ICT sphere,” he added.
[contextly_sidebar id=”VIWIUV0Pgta1V78ZsTfRvuunfx229BBv”]President Mahama, while opening at the second edition of the programme at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on Tuesday, said MOBEX has come to stay.
“MOBEX is becoming the leading ICT conference seminar in the country at the moment. I believe it has come to stay and with my very strong belief in the capacity and dynamism of Ghanaians, I know it will continue to grow from strength to strength,” he said.
The event, which is part of programmes line-up for Citi FM’s Business Festival, is to take stock of the new trends in the IT sector as well as bring stakeholders together to have critical discussions on the future.
The three-day conference will also see over one hundred technology brands displaying their products.
President Mahama noted that, “an occasion such as this, does offer an opportunity to reflect on how far we have come as a country in embracing and using technology to advance our national progress,” he added.
Ghana stands tall in ICT – Mahama
The President expressed satisfaction with what he calls a massive growth in the telecommunication industry in the country, citing previous situations where Ghanaians queued to make a phone call.
“Today, Ghana stands tall as one of the progressive ICT and telecom markets with six mobile operators and over 33 million subscriptions. It means that, if we were supposed to share the subscriptions we are supposed to be about 27 million people. Then it means every new born baby has a mobile phone, but I know that some people have five, others have four, others have two, at least I have three.”
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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