Meet Ghana-based Information Technology (IT) professional, Mr. Abou Conde

Ghana-based Information Technology (IT) professional, Mr. Abou Conde has won the 2020-2021 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community.

The award by the American multinational technology company - Microsoft was in recognition of his exceptional technical community leadership on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform in Ghana.

By this feat, Mr. Conde, 34, becomes the first Ghana-based Microsoft MVP and joins a select group of only 32 MVPs in all of Africa.

An elated Mr. Conde said he dedicated himself to providing online support about Microsoft to persons in Ghana and his activities over the past one-year caught the eye of a 10-year Microsoft MVP who nominated him for the award.

According to him "I realized that in Ghana here, people are not into Microsoft cloud computing but I was providing online support to people in other countries and I decided to create a tech community called Microsoft User Group Ghana – The Place which supports and organizes events in Ghana.