Top US IT company to invest in Volta Region
Aristotle Incorporated, an award-winning Internet service provider in the United States of America (USA), is exploring opportunities to establish a bureau in the Volta Region.
This follows a successful business meeting between a trade delegation from Arkansas State, Delta Region, USA and political heads of the Volta Region during a week’s Sister Cities Partnership and Economic Investment Forum in Ho.
The Ghana News Agency says Aristotle Inc. provides broadband Internet, using fixed wireless broadband technology and seeks to extend Internet connectivity to cover the Volta Region.
The President and Chairman, Aristotle Inc., Ms Elizabeth Bowles, in a presentation on her behalf at the business meeting, said fixed wireless broadband provided broader range of bandwidth options.
“A fiber-fixed wireless hybrid solution provides the most flexible and cost effective solution,” she said.
Ms Bowles said it was less expensive and faster to deploy and was hopeful the extension of their operations to the Volta Region would lead to an Information and Communication Technology(ICT) revolution in the region and Ghana with “speed and reliability.”
She said the focus would be on schools, businesses and communities and called for partnership from local entrepreneurs and district assemblies.
“Broadband Internet access to schools, communities and businesses across the Volta Region and throughout Ghana, is essential to the country’s economic future,” Ms Bowles said.
The Secretary of State, Arkansas, and Leader of the delegation from the USA, Mr Mark Martin was hopeful the relationship between the two regions would lead to a “prosperous world.”
A joint communique issued by Madam Helen Ntoso, the Volta Regional Minister and Mr Sherman Banks, President Emeritus, Sister Cities International, USA, said Arkansas Delta Region, USA, with support from Aristotle, would lay the foundation to improve communication among government institutions, educational institutions and agricultural and traditional leaders across the region.
It said the two regions would maintain a bilateral relationship in the areas of agriculture and food processing, telecommunications, education, cultural exchange and tourism.