Balancing Act NEWS UPDATE 63

The offshore information services market is valued at US$30 to $40 billion. Up until recently the countries that were in the running for a piece of that business were not on the African continent. Countries such as India, Russia, Ireland, Israel, Barbados, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, and the Far East have made a name for themselves with US companies for the high quality and low cost of their services. The services range from basic data entry to software engineering and the writing of software solutions. Awo A. Quaison-Sackey was an early starter in the outsourcing market and has built a business with offices in Connecticut and Accra based on it. He explains how Ghana is well placed to respond to this market.