Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ostec Ghana, Jonathan Tawiah, has admonished small businesses to take advantage of technology to enable them compete better in the global market. According to him, this will ensure that business can make their products or services available to a wider market base irrespective of how small a company may be. Mr Tawiah was speaking at a media launch in Accra as part of activities marking the 10th anniversary celebrations of Ostec. Ostec Ghana is an IT services provider that specializes in IT based services, technology sourcing and infrastructure integration. It is wholly Ghanaian owned and provides IT services to huge capacity blue-chip companies. The company has, since its inception in 2001, been helping businesses increase the reliability, availability and efficiency of their systems with comprehensive support coverage for the hardware and software that make up their data centre infrastructure. Ostec enables its clients to consolidate all of their server, storage, network and security infrastructure support needs under a single point of contact and offers other education services, data centre relocation services and hardware procurement. The company is currently the largest provider of managed services in Ghana and has built and managed the largest disaster recovery facilities and data centre. Ostec also takes care of the largest data centres and regional connectivity infrastructures in West Africa and is now aggressively moving its services towards Central Africa. Mr Jonathan Tawiah stated during a speech that Ostec has over the years concentrated on the private sector and that with its highly skilled human resource; the company is now ready to offer its speacialised services to the government. He therefore urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies to concentrate on their core businesses and outsource IT infrastructure and services to sepecialised outfits like Ostec. Communications Minister Haruna Iddrisu, who graced the occasion, announced that the government has approved a public-private partnership document which will make government only an enabler to facilitate private sector growth. “We have to move beyond the rhetoric of the private sector being an engine of growth to real enabler of our development,” the minister maintained. Story by Dorcas Efe Mensah/myjoyonline.com/Ghana