MTN to impact 100K lives through sustainable digital solutions by 2025

The Chief Corporate Services and Sustainability Officer at MTN Ghana, Madam Adwoa Afriyie Wiafe has disclosed that the vision of MTN is to impact a hundred thousand lives through sustainable digital solutions by 2025.

“Our vision is to create sustainable digital solutions that impact communities and touch 100K lives by 2025”.

She says the company continues to embrace innovation to drive social change, nurture effective collaborations, and empower individuals in underserved communities.

Already, MTN is making an impact in the area of education, health, and economic empowerment through the establishment of ICT laboratories for schools, building wards for Hospitals and Robotics laboratories for schools and communities.

The Chief Corporate Services and Sustainability Officer at MTN further explains, the Company is training people in digital skills and supporting small and medium scale enterprises with funds to boost their businesses.

She indicates the Company is doing a lot to contribute to Ghana’s development.

Madam Adwoa Afriyie Wiafe was speaking at this year’s Media and Stakeholder forum organized by MTN in Cape Coast.

It was under the theme: “The Future of Digital; MTN in The Next Five Years”.

She maintains, MTN is working with stakeholders to ensure that they are able to deal with issues affecting customers, such as MoMo fraud among others.

Touching on communities that do not have access to the MTN network, Madam Adwoa Afriyie Wiafe indicated that “there is a progressivly rollout plan for each Region and that for the communities that have low coverage, they will see improvement in due time”.

MTN’s Technical Manager for Central and Western Regions, Teddy Hayford Acquah maintains, MTN continues to invest in infrastructure to improve on the performance of the network.

As such about 600 kilometers of fibre have been deployed to the Central Region alone.

Mr Hayford Acquah however explains that the effort made by MTN is being thwarted by activities like road and building  construction and illegal mining (galamsey) among others.

“Unfortunately, these developers do not consider these rights of ways that we have acquired and they damage our infrastructure with their activities. A typical example is the road expansion of the Winneba-Kasoa highway, which has resulted in the encroachment of our fibre infrastructure along that corridor”.

The Technical Manager for the Western and Central Regions reveals that so far, the Company has recorded about sixty-two kilometers of fibre damage.

He thus indicates that MTN continues to get more engineers on the ground in its quest to fight the menace.