By Durrell Namasani
One of Malawi’s leading mobile and internet providers Airtel has pledged to support the government to improve internet access by 2030. The pledge was made on Wednesday at Kamuzu Palace when Airtel Africa Group CEO & Managing Director, Dr. Olusegun Ogunsanya, had an interface with President Chakwera.
The CEO has restated the company’s resolve to boost investments in Malawi in line with our digitalization agenda. This is scheduled to help Malawi In its quest to become a self-reliant and industrialized middle income economy whereby digital technologies that create new value of the economic system will facilitate the creation of sustainable wealth and jobs.
Dr. Ogunsanya has since pledged the firm’s full support to Malawi in achieving the benchmark of not less than 20% internet access by 2030 as per the Malawi 2063 Implementation Plan 1 (MIP1).
The Malawi government through President Chakwera and the Airtel CEO have agreed to continue growing government-to-business partnership so that they create meaningful socioeconomic value for all Malawians via pro-growth modern digital services.
