COMARCI>>>COMARCI capacity building workshop in Makeni, Sierra Leone

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization was represented by the its chief Executive Office Dr. Spio Garbrah who's is the brain child of the Commonwealth African Rural Connectivity Initiative. This capacity building workshop which is recorded as phase two of the COMARCI (phase I being the detailed research undertaken by the CTO in all commonwealth African Countries) created a forum for the expression of the needs, aspirations and contributions of local communicates including religious leaders and Paramount Chiefs representing the North, East and South of Sierra Leone.

Operators not only sponsored the workshop but showed their efforts their thus to improve rural connectivity in Sierra Leone. Upcoming service providers in the industry - Huawei, Altas and Tiwai demonstrated how the industry could be taken to another level with the use of new and affordable technology. The CTO's expertise in assisting countries understands the concept of rural connectivity initiative was aptly delivered emphasizing the need for Public Private Peoples Partnership. The people's ownership it was concluded is the backbone to the success of any rural connectivity initiative.