Southwest Technologies and its partners announced they are set to launch a data center in Ethiopia to make Ethiopia a hub for IT in Central Africa on Tuesday at the Sheraton Addis.
“It’s a historic event,” Tewdros Ashenafi, Chairman—Southwest Holdings said applauding the move of the company alongside its involvement in the energy industry.
“In terms of this opportunity, people may say think, isn’t it too early to do this? But we say we are in the right time,” he said. According to him, his company is interested in making history, and this would pick Ethiopia’s standing in the world to realize e-commerce, e-agriculture and so many sectors.
Dhaneshwar Damry, Chairman—Buhmishq Group hailed Southwest Technologies’ interest that aims to develop the country’s Information Technology (IT) sector that accelerates the economy in being more competitive worldwide. “In 2050 my daughter will tell me who fixed all the setbacks here as she had asked me where I was going after retrieving the map of the country on her iPad,” he said. “Because the country would have transformed by then as it carries out such vital developments.”
He further pointed out that Ethiopia would become an IT hub of Central Africa as Kenya has already stepped up its efforts to remain East Africa’s IT hub. “IBM will remain fully committed to this project and, this data center will be a model for the world,” he said.
Gustavo Alvarez, IT service leader, IBM in East Africa also shared the views expressed and added that IBM has already moved from selling commodity business to value added services. “Eighty per cent of people working in IBM are in the service area so that we need to look for selling services rather than selling hardware and printers,” he said.
After many years of active involvement in East Africa, IBM launched a Kenyan Innovation Center last year housing a cloud company center that aims to drive Information Technology skills development in the region, and it also announced that it would open more Innovation centers in Africa aiming at seizing the opportunity of the economic growth of the continent.
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