[kictanet] Kenyans scoop African ICT Achievers Awards

[Alex Gakuru]

Kwach,

Thanks for the sharing spirit...but please avoid
editing forwarded content:) The story was run on
November 28, 2007 (NOT today 7th Dec).

<http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4531&Itemid=5843>


Cheers!

Alex

--- Kwach <kwach at archway-productions.com> wrote:

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> Hi all, 
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> Paul Kagame won the Lifetime Achievement Award for
> boosting Rwanda's ICT
> sector.
> 
> Business Daily: December 7, 2007:  Written by Kui
> Kinyanjui
> 
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> 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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