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Africa: the African ICT Achievers Awards 2006

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 @ 11:54 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: South Africa
Topics:: Development, Internet & Telecoms, Software & Tools, Technology

Here is a list of winners of the African ICT Achievers Awards 2006, “The Winner of the Top ICT Youth Innovator Award, Nomfundo Nguse(19), was also a finalist in the Top ICT Young Entrepreneur category.”

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[...] The 2006 African ICT Achievers Awards, the “Oscar” of the region’s ICT sector, recognizes Edward Popoola as the ICT Educator/Academic in Africa. Edward is Nigerian Youth ICT4D. There were 15 award categories in all, and as expected several of those went to recipients in the south-eastern axis of the continent. Via Global Voices Online. [...]

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