{"id":1236574,"date":"2022-10-27T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/27\/afriwave-founder-david-poku-receives-top-20-tech-leaders-award\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:06:12","slug":"afriwave-founder-david-poku-receives-top-20-tech-leaders-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/27\/afriwave-founder-david-poku-receives-top-20-tech-leaders-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Afriwave Founder David Poku receives top 20 Tech Leaders Award\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By D.I. Laary<\/p>\n<p>Accra, Oct. 27, GNA \u2013 Afriwave Telecom, and its founder, Mr. David Poku, has been awarded at the 12<sup>th<\/sup> Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards (GITTA) in Accra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the company was named \u201cInterconnect Clearinghouse Provider of the Year,\u201d its founder, Mr. David Poku, was honoured as one of the \u201cTop 20 Telecom Personalities\u201d for promoting excellence in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Poku has a strong background in management and telecommunications and has been involved in the telecom industry for the last 25 years, helping Afriwave diversify into a giant telecom industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He maintains and develops Afriwave Telecom\u2019s vision, oversees policy implementation, seeks to protect Afriwave\u2019s image, and provides leadership to ensure that it achieves its strategic goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ICH currently carries all interconnect voice traffic in Ghana and is fully connected to all of the country\u2019s telecom providers, including AirtelTigo, MTN, and Vodafone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the award, Mr. David Poku said he was pleased Afriwave Telecom was acknowledged for the service it was offering in the country\u2019s telecom ecosystem and was especially glad that Afriwave managed to clean up Ghana\u2019s telecom sector through interconnection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Poku congratulated all of award recipients and urged them to continue working to develop Ghana\u2019s telecom sector, adding that, as a fully Ghanaian company, Afriwave Telecom would work harder to enhance interconnection throughout Ghana and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Afriwave Telecom founder was praised for being the strategic driving force behind the company\u2019s steady growth, which was quickly emerging as a major force in the African\u202fcontinent\u2019s technology space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards was \u201cCelebrating and Promoting Excellence in the Tech Industry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GITTA establishes a strategic platform to honour, reward, and highlight the innovative ICT initiatives advancing Ghana\u2019s private and public sectors with the aim of establishing a benchmark for the wave of development in the subregion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"1e3b77732ea93be18848b964-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By D.I. 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