<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Grace, thanks for sharing.</div><div><br></div><div>Great story and achievement by the SWAT Team at Safaricom. Anyone working on projects will appreciate the kind of planning and meticulous execution required to work on such a project. And Mpesa being the giant it is, the pressure and all the things that can go wrong are just countless.</div><div><br></div><div>I salute Emma and all the men and women who delivered this project successfully within scope, time and hopefully budget!</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Harry Hare</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Director </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">African eDevelopment Resource Centre</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">PO Box 49475 00100 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Nairobi, Kenya </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Tel +254 20 4041646 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Cel +254 725 650044</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:C95BAE71-F26D-4F22-A5DE-77486A16C7A2" type="image/png"></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:44:04 +0300<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Cio_Magazine Hare <<a href="mailto:harry@africanedevelopment.org">harry@africanedevelopment.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" <<a href="mailto:nmutungu@gmail.com">nmutungu@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [kictanet] Women in tech - Mpesa Migration Story<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><h1 style="font-size:24px;margin:0px 0px 8px;font-family:ColfaxBold,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:25px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></h1></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">It was said to be one of the biggest and most complex projects the company had ever embarked on and the information technology specialist, who led the team of 320 people in the Herculean task of moving M-Pesa servers from Germany to Kenya — a process that lasted between 11 p.m. on Friday April 17 and 11.30 a.m. on April 19 after years of meticulous planning — received special mention from the CEO.</span><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/-/1950774/2696774/-/format/xhtml/-/618vfbz/-/index.html">http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/-/1950774/2696774/-/format/xhtml/-/618vfbz/-/index.html</a><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Grace L.N. Mutung'u <br>Nairobi Kenya<br>Skype: gracebomu<br>Twitter: @Bomu<br><br><<a href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu" target="_blank">http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu</a>><br><br></div></div>
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