ESTELLE AKOFIO SOWAH

NetWorth: $1.8 million

http://www.busyinternet.com

Birth place: Scotland

Estelle Akofio Sowah, is Managing Director of BusyInternet. She is manager and businesswoman. The founder of busyinternet.com is Mark Davies.

Established in 2001, BusyInternet is the largest privately-owned and operated ICT centre in Africa. Estelle gave thenextwomen insight into the internet sector in Ghana and how she is encouraging social development and business growth through it, while reminding us of the luxurious position people are in the Western world, to have the time and infrastructure to use the internet to the fullest.

In Ghana, we have small local companies, competing against large international companies and unfortunately our governments do not have structures in place to ensure that these companies do not just kill the local business instead of partnering with them and using and building on the resources and local knowledge.

We live in a world where most days we do not know where we will be the next day. When you come to Ghana you’ll here people say, ‘by God’s grace we are here”.
People are not overnight going to have their own computers, their own electricity, and their own internet access in their homes or offices.

She had the luxury of having two parents that told me I am special. That is not in an arrogant way, but in a realistic way. That is what guides me and pushes me. I try to live by the phrase :

“The way I do anything, is the way I do everything”