Xalles Expands into Africa

ACCRA and WASHINGTON, DC, December 15, 2006 – In early December Xalles was in Accra, Ghana to attend a series of initial and followup meetings with cabinet ministers, members of parliament and industrial leaders to discuss how Xalles can help develop the ICT and outsourcing industry in Ghana.

Mr. Thomas Nash, CEO of Xalles Limited, met with Kwame Bawuah-Edusei, MD, Ghana's Ambassador to the United States, Hon. Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister of the Interior, Hon. Prof. Mike Oquaye, Minister of Communications, as well as Hon. Kofi Jumah, Member of Parliament and former mayor of Kumasi.  Xalles will be presenting their findings from the ICT industry assessment and proposals for the next steps.

Xalles plans to host a Technology Summit in June 2007 in Accra to help organize the ICT industry and provide educational seminars on international marketing and facilitate business matchmaking with investors, partner companies and prospective clients.

Mr. Nash also met with Mr. Yaw Owusu, CEO of Ghana Cyber Group Investments Limited (GCG) while in Ghana to discuss The Ghana Technology Park project. Xalles has partnered with GCG to help develop and promote a new technology park that will be opening soon in the city of Accra. The Ghana Technology Park will make available infrastructure facilities to growing technology firms, both domestic and foreign, to provide business process outsourcing, call centers and other products for IT markets in United States, Africa and other emerging economies. Mr. Nash and Mr. Owusu met with Dr. Essel Ben Hagan, Director of the Institute of Industrial Research (IIR) to further discuss plans for the park. IIR, a government organization, has provided access to 27 of the 36 acres of IIR land upon which the park can be built.

The site for the future Technology Park has already been chosen and initial work is expected to start in 2007. Xalles has also chosen the site for its first African office that will also be located in the city of Accra and is expected to open in 2007.

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