Zinox Technology begins operation in Ghana

Zinox Technology, manufacturer of West Africa's first internationally certified branded computers has finally launched its brands in Ghana

The emergence of Zinox Technology in Ghana has been attributed to strong economic growth which has created an enabling environment for investment and expansion of Information Communication Technology.

It also forms part of the company's commitment in assisting government to achieve its objective of extending information communication technology to all corners of the country.

Launching the computer brand in Accra on Wednesday, Chief Leo Stan Ekeh, Chairman of Zinox Computers said their presence in Ghana had given them the opportunity to advance the corporate objectives of their consuming passion.

It was also a way of keeping faith with the pan African vision of the founding fathers of Ghana, through the provision of a technology platform to harness and actualise the collective aspirations of Africans.

"As we all know, no nation can claim to be independent without technology independence. Zinox to us is a spiritual responsibility to deliver Africa in the emerging knowledge economy, and we have delivered so far in Nigeria, now in Ghana and moving to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Gambia and others soon” he announced.

According to Chief Leo Stan Ekeh, illiteracy, hunger and disease continue to torment the vast majority across the African continent, exacerbated by corruption and bad governance. At the same time, brain drain and capital flight had remained the most prominent features of the post colonial relationship in favour of Europe, America and now Asia.

“The fact that globalisation has tended to consolidate the emergence of Africa as a profitable market for luxury goods and abandoned technologies increase our fears on how to survive.

But this hastens our resolve to act as a people. The present overwhelming growth of China will pose a major disadvantage to African countries if we don't wake up to this challenge and embrace ICT.

“We must see ourselves as one people, acting together with the common purpose of redeeming our continent from these scourges that continue to keep us underdeveloped”.

The Minister of Defence, Albert Kan Dapaah, whose tenure as Minister at the Ministry of Communications saw the arrival of Zinox called on Ghanaians to embrace the new computer brand, adding that Africa could not afford to lose the technological revolution after losing the scientific, industrial and agricultural revolution.

He called on the management of Zinox to get involved in government's drive of wiring the entire nation with fibre optic to make communication easy.

Zinox has so far employed close to 200 people in Ghana with 90% being indigenous Ghanaians. Zinox computers are the only Microsoft Authorised OEM Partner in West Africa, Intel's largest premier partner in sub-Saharan Africa, and the first and only certified system built in sub Saharan Africa.

By Adu Koranteng