OVF Ghana Team meets with National Communications Authority Officials
OVF Ghana’s Kafui Prebbie and Jacob Odame met officials of the National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana for a meeting on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at the NCA office in Accra. NCA is the telecom regulator for Ghana. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce the Wireless Africa project, of which OVF-Ghana is a founding project partner.
Present at the meeting was the director of Regulatory Administration at the NCA, Mr. Joshua Peprah, who represented the Director General of the NCA with members of the NCA technical committee.
In his presentation, Kafui gave a complete background of OVF’s work in Ghana, its track record and how and why it was selected from Ghana to be part of the Wireless Africa Project. Mr. Peprah and his team were very happy to learn of OVF Ghana’s work and expressed great interest in the Wireless Africa project. He said they were not only interested in the strong competition by telcos in the urban sectors, but are also interested that connectivity will reach the rural areas so that the free access to information component of the Millennium Development Goals can be attained. He outlined the very attractive package that the NCA has put in place for rural ISPs and pointed out that they will do what they can to support OVF Ghana’s efforts in Winneba.
Isaac Boateng was appointed to be the main lead to the project from the side of NCA and was appointed as representative to OVF Ghana, providing any information we needed in undertaking the research project.
The OVF Ghana team expressed great appreciation for the warm embrace of the project by the NCA and promised to communicate the projects progress and disseminate all outcomes to them.
