Report: First Stakeholders' Forum

On Friday March 26, 2010 nearly 70 participants came together at the first Vodafone Stakeholders’ Forum, held to help key stakeholders better understand Vodafone’s activities.

Director of External Affairs, Paul Ryan, said the forum will facilitate discussions among stakeholders in areas of: compliance with Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMFs); supply engagement procedures; health and safety policies and in Vodafone’s quest to become an ‘employer of choice’.

Mr Ryan, who was chairing the forum, said Vodafone believes “a great deal in achieving a better corporate responsibility plan which will be implementable and easily adaptable. We consider stakeholders’ as people who can affect our business or who are affected by it, and this group includes employees, suppliers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, regulators and the communities within which we operate”.



The Vodafone Ghana Board Chairman, Doctor Kobbina Quansah, reminded participants that the company was close to celebrating its first anniversary. He said that the company’s brand had already made a great impression on the Ghanaian public.

Participants at the stakeholders’ forum included: individuals and representatives from NGOs representing civil society, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Ministry of Communications; Electricity Company of Ghana; Kofi Anane ICT centre of Excellence; the media; Federation of the Disabled; Price Water House Coppers; Vodafone Board members, senior Management representatives and heads of relevant departments.

As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda, Vodafone has been the first telecommunications company to initiate the GSM public phone that provides full GSM functionality to individuals that cannot afford a mobile phone or due to nature of their institution are not allowed to use mobile phones.

A full version of the press release can be read here.