Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA) is pleased to announce Mr. Okunola, SA/ICT, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) as the winner of her “Africa ICT Personality Award 2020”. He won the election conducted electronically with 70.8% of the total ballots cast in his favour. List of all nominees here
The Africa ICT Personality Award® is for Public/Government officials who have played a significant role in shaping ICT public in their country leading to job creation.
The process of identifying the winner of the award for the year started in the month of September 2020 with the call for nominations to which over 25 form submissions were received from different nations in Africa by 27th November. The Secretariat thence confirmed from each nominee their acceptance to participate in the contest and electronic voting which lasted for 5 working days (from 14 -18 December 2020) concluded the process.
The AfICTA ICT Awards are in two categories “Africa ICT Champion Award” and “Africa ICT Personality Award”. The awards ceremony is the centerpiece of the AfICTA annual Summit, with the goal of identifying the most outstanding ICT leaders in public/private sectors across Africa, that have demonstrated exceptional achievement in using ICT to benefit organizations, governments, and society.
Mr. Kola Okunola now joins the list of highly ranked and influential ICT personalities such as Nermine El Saadany, Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu. Please check the list of our award winners here.
AfICTA wishes to congratulate the latest winner and as well encourage other participants to keep participating in the future contest.
About Africa ICT Alliance -AfICTA
Africa Information & Communication Technologies Alliance - AfICTA is a concerned private sector led alliance of ICT Associations, Multi-national Corporations, Companies, Organisations and individuals in the ICT sector in Africa. Our vision is to fulfil the promise of the digital age for everyone in Africa while our mission is to encourage multi-stakeholder dialogue fostering accelerated and ICT enabled development in Africa and the use of cutting-edge innovative technologies including mobile, computing and satellite technologies to achieve an Information society in Africa. Please learn more @ https://aficta.africa
