[kictanet] Kenyans scoop African ICT Achievers Awards

[Kwach]

Hi all, 

 

Paul Kagame won the Lifetime Achievement Award for boosting Rwanda's ICT
sector.

Business Daily: December 7, 2007:  Written by Kui Kinyanjui

 

In what could be seen as a nod to the vibrant nature of the Kenyan ICT
scene, the country scooped a record number of major awards at the recent
African ICT Achievers Awards  in South Africa.

The country's bag of five big wins, including the top ICT Business Woman and
Man in Africa awards, indicate good things are happening across the ICT
spectrum.

Jyoti Mukherjee, winner of the top businesswoman of the year on the
continent award, has managed the growth of one of the oldest IT services
companies in the country and can rightly boast of having used shrewd
business  acumen and smart partnerships as some of the main reasons for her
success.  

On his part, Brian Llongwe-the continent's best ICT Business Man - has been
instrumental in the country's ICT development over the years, being perhaps
most famous for pushing for a local Internet exchange point that has seen
traffic to local grow exponentially. 

Mwende Gatabaki scooped the Top Public sector CIO for her work at KTDA,
while Computers for Schools bagged the Top Civil Society/ NGO honours. 

 Also recognised were Rebecca Wanjiru of the People newspaper for her
insightful journalism and 3 Mice as  runners-up in the best ICT SME
category.

For his efforts in propelling his country's ICT sector into the
international arena, President Paul Kagame won the Lifetime Achievement
Award.

The awards draw participation from a large proportion of the stakeholders on
the continent with entries from Egypt, Tunisia, Senegal, Ghana, Uganda,
Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Mauritius, Seychelles, Mozambique, Zambia,
Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Angola, Burundi, South Africa
and

Tomorrow, the Kenyan version of   ICT awards will be held at the Panari
Hotel in Nairobi and is hosted by the Computer Society of Kenya.  

While awards traditionally recognize the better known names in the sector,
perhaps the time has come for an award ceremony that recognizes the real
innovators in the industry; the young Kenyan who developed a full-length
interactive computer game, the less publicized, but equally relevant workers
in the open source world, to name just a few.

 

 

 

 

 

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