Top ICT Business Woman in Africa Jyoti Mukherjee (Software Technologies, Kenya ) Finalists: Lenhle Daka (IBM, South Africa) Angela Gahagan (Verizon Business, South Africa) Sarmashni Naidu (Sage Computer Technologies, South Africa)
	Top ICT Business Man in Africa Brian Longwe Inhand Ltd & African ISP Association (Kenya ) Finalists: Allan Cawood (Dimension Data, Middle East and Africa) Rob Sussman (Integr8 IT)
	Top ICT Educator in Africa Professor Venansius Baryamureeba (Makerere University in Uganda ) Finalists: Kelvins Aghayedo (FutureNigeria Project) Professor Johannes Cronje (Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa)
	Top ICT Youth Innovator in Africa Rafiq Phillips iDrive( South Africa) Finalists: Kelvins Aghayedo (FutureNigeria Project) Dave Duarte, Cerebra ( San Francisco)
	Top ICT Young Entrepreneur in Africa Jaco Gerrits, Dynamus Technologies Finalists: Kelvins Aghayedo, EntriFlex Solutions (Nigeria)
	Excellence in ICT Journalism in Africa Gervais Henrie, Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation Finalists: Ansbert Ngurumo,Free Media ( Tanzania) Rebecca Wanjiku, The People Daily  (Kenya)
	Top Public Sector CIO in Africa Mwende Gatabaki, ICT for the Kenya Tea Development Agency ( Kenya ) Finalists: Tshavhu Mukhodobwane, Department of  Public Service and Administration ( South Africa) Vishnu Dutt Purbhoo, Ministry of Social Security, National Solidarity, Senior Citizens' Welfare and Reform Institutions(Mauritius)
	Top Minister in Africa with an ICT Portfolio H.E. Marie Joseph Noel-Etienne Ghislain Sinatambou, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (Mauritius) Finalist: H.E. Quaili Montasser, Ministry of Communications Technologies (Tunisia) Dr Ham-Mukasa Mulira, Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (Uganda)
Top ICT Company in Africa Dimension Data (South Africa) Finalists: Omniacom (Tunisia) Accenture (South Africa)
Top ICT SMME in Africa True Africa ( Uganda ) Finalists: 3Mice Interactive media (Kenya) Jolis Intercom (Uganda)
Most Transformed ICT Company in Africa Accenture (South Africa) Finalists: Verizon Business (South Africa) Bytes Technology Group (South Africa)
Most Innovative ICT Company in Africa Integr8 IT (South Africa) Finalists: SMS Media (Rwanda) and Yeigo Communications ( South Africa)
Top ICT Workplace Provider in Africa IBM Finalists: Accenture (South Africa) Integr8 IT (South Africa)
Top Civil Society / NGO in Africa Computers for School (Kenya) Finalists: Kenya Action Network Uganda Media and Research Foundation
Top Government Department in Africa Treatment and Research AIDS Centre (Rwanda) Finalists: Department of Justice and Constitutional Development in South Africa Khanya Project Western Cape Education Department in South Africa
Lifetime Achievment Award H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

ForgeAhead together with Premier partner Department of Communications, Associate Partners SABC, SAC Africa and Channel Africa, Platinum Partner Vodacom, Public Sector Partner SITA, Category Partner Microsoft,  Media Partners, SABC, SABC Africa, Channel Africa and IT Web, CSI Partners USAASA and fNokia Siemens Networks, Industry Stakeholders ITA, CSSA, Information Industry, Black IT Forum, eif, SACF and Audit Partner KPMG would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s African ICT Achievers Awards. We would also like to thank the corporate environment who nominated again this year in recognising excellence in individuals and organisations in the ICT sector.