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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Paul Kagame won the Lifetime Achievement Award for
boosting <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rwanda</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
ICT sector.</span></font></b></strong><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
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Business Daily: Dece<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">mber 7, 2007: </font></b></strong></span></b> <span
class=small>Written by Kui Kinyanjui</span><strong><b><font
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font></span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>The country’s bag of five big wins, including the
top ICT Business Woman and Man in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>
awards, indicate good things are happening across the ICT spectrum.</span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>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. </span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>On his part, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Brian
Llongwe</span></b>—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. </span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>Mwende Gatabaki scooped the Top Public sector CIO for her
work at KTDA, while Computers for Schools bagged the Top Civil Society/ NGO
honours. </span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent> 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.</span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>For his efforts in propelling his country’s ICT
sector into the international arena, President Paul Kagame won the Lifetime
Achievement Award.</span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>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</span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>Tomorrow, the Kenyan version of ICT awards
will be held at the Panari Hotel in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nairobi</st1:place></st1:City>
and is hosted by the Computer Society of Kenya. </span><br>
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<span class=nlcontent>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.</span><font
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