August 2008
Welcome to another edition of the African ICT Achievers Awards newsletter.
Special greetings to all our women readers as they celebrate women’s month in August.
Women’s month is about celebrating the great and inspiring work women have done in our communities, homes, workplaces and societies.

So although Women’s Day was on 9 August, it would be nice for women to dedicate every day for the rest of this month to celebrating their lives. Never forgetting to take a moment to really look back and celebrate their achievements, wisdom, grace and peace and for giving birth to life and hope for the future.

In this issue we have splurged on praise for this wonderfully and fearlessly created species. We have taken time to celebrate and commemorate all our women achievers over the years until today by featuring 10 previous top women African ICT Achievers as we also celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the programme. Read all about it in this issue.

We also bring you progress on the adjudication process and keep you posted about developments in the programme.

We have attached a calendar of events of the programme in order for you to be informed about the events to date and going forward.

This month our “Focus on Judges” features Dr Adesina Iluyemi from Nigeria, read about him below.

Thank you to all those readers who have taken time to respond to us with comments. We value your input and want to make sure that this newsletter always speaks to you. So please keep on writing to us, we greatly appreciate your feedback.

Once again “Happy Women’s Month” to all our women readers. May the light continue to shine above you so that you mount like the eagles!

Until next time.

Bongeka Lwana
 

Judges Corner

This new section is intended to showcase some of our judges, and this month we feature Dr Adesina Iluyemi.

Dr Adesina Iluyemi works for the NEPAD Council, United Kingdom/European Commission is a dentist by training with almost three years postgraduate working experiences in a teaching hospital in Nigeria with postgraduate Royal College of Surgeons read more

 
for more info please contact :-
Bongeka Lwana  Phelia Fourie
Marketing Communications Manager  Senior Events Manager
+27 11 603 1664 +27 11 603 1623
bongeka@forgeahead.co.za phelia@forgeahead.co.za
 
 

Achievers Articles

Looking back at ten years of ICT women success
As we celebrate women’s month, we take a walk back and look at women who have made the African Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry the success it is today. “For a long time ICT was viewed as a male dominated industry with very few women involved in it,” says Jane Mosebi, ForgeAhead managing director. more...

New Audit partners for African ICT Achievers Awards
ForgeAhead has announced that Nkonki Incorporated is the new audit partner for the African Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Achievers Awards. In a bid to select outstanding ICT performance in Africa, the two companies will work together on nominations, adjudication processes and interviews. more...

Judges gear up for adjudication of the African ICT Achievers Awards
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) needs to be embraced in order for the development gap between Africa and the rest of the world to decrease. more...