The world’s largest software and programme developer, Microsoft Corporation, has confirmed that its Senior Vice President in-charge Corporate Business, Ali Faramawy will pay a day’s working visit to Ghana on March 4, 2013.
Mr Famamwy’s visit will be at the invitation of rLG Communications Limited, the pioneer ICT devices firm in Africa.
Mr. Faramawy will be the guest of honour at the official sod-cutting ceremony for the multi-million dollar ICT Park to be known as the ‘Hope City’ in Accra next month.
He will also a pay courtesy call on President John Mahama at the Flag Staff House.
The Hope City Project is an integrated village with facilities for housing, ICT, recreation, business and many more, and is expected to create jobs for more 50,000 people directly and indirectly.
In August, last year, Microsoft and rLG signed an agreement, which allows rLG phones and computers to run on Microsoft windows.
The most influential business magazine, Forbes, in one of its publications, described the rLG-Microsoft deal as the ‘partnership of the future.’
The deal also granted an Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) status to rLG, making it one of the few Africa.
‘This visit by a very senior official of Microsoft excites us because its reaffirms the growing trust and confidence the international community is reposing in us,’ said Roland Agambire, Founder & Chief Executive of rLG Communications Ltd.
Mr Ali, who is also the President for Microsoft Middle East & Africa (MEA), has a number of responsibilities spanning business strategy and operations.
He is a key member of the international leadership team that is responsible for the company’s global strategy, with particularly visible role amongst the company’s worldwide emerging markets community.
Ali is directly responsible for Microsoft’s operations in MEA, one of 13 areas that comprise Microsoft’s worldwide operations.
The area represents one of Microsoft’s fastest growing and dynamic markets and certainly its most diverse one. Microsoft MEA operates through 32 offices and covers 79 countries across three continents.