ICT Award Holds Wednesday

Technology Africa, organiser of the popular Titans of Tech Award, has concluded plans to unveil the 2011 recipients of the prestigious award in the high-octane ceremony scheduled for Lagos on Wednesday, April 18, 2011.

Speaking in Lagos, the Secretary of the Awards Committee, Don Pedro Aganbi, noted the Titans of Tech Awards is the high point of the two-day event called the Titans of Tech conference and exhibition, scheduled to take place from April 19 to 20 in Lagos with the theme, “State of ICT Infrastructure and the Challenges of a Digital Economy.”

He revealed that the yearly Titans of Tech Award and gala now in its seventh year, is designed to celebrate Hi-Tech most important movers and shakers, individuals, organisations and institutions that are at the fore front of pushing the frontiers of technology deployment and adoption in Nigeria.

Aganbi revealed that one of the most keenly contested categories is the ICT Company of the year, which would be a battle between Main One Cable, Computer warehouse, Zinox and Dataflex.  ICT driven State of the year has Edo State, Imo State, Jigawa state and Akwa Ibom State.  Also, Helios tower, IHS, Phase3 telecom and Swap would slug it out for the ICT Infrastructure Company of the Year Award.

The battle for the Best ICT Driven Bank of the year award has Zenith Bank, Keystone Bank, GTBank and First Bank in contention.

For the Software Company of the year, Programos, Connect Technologies, System Specs and ExpertEdge Software are in contention. While ICT Brand of the year award is up for grabs by one of Airtel, Etisalat, Main One Cable and Zinox Technologies.

ABTI America University, Babcock University, Bells University and Covenant University are in contention for ICT Driven University of the year, with the Government Agency of the Year award is between NCC, Galaxy backbone, NITDA and NigComSat.

The Telecom Company of the year award is going to be a battle between Glo, MTN, Etisalat and Airtel. While the ICT Solutions provider of the year award is between Dataflex, Layer3, Cyberspace and signal Alliance.  Olusegun Mimiko, Adams Oshiomohle, Godswill Akpabio and Sule Lamido are in contention for the ICT Governor of the year award.

On criteria for the Award, Aganbi stated, “the key criteria include value of the service or technology in solving recognised technology problems, meeting network requirements, optimising service and performance, and/or enhancing customer service, overall quality of innovation and contribution to ICT advancement, originality and vision, potential contribution towards positive industry growth and service, market success/acceptance and contribution to end-user quality-of-experience and service efficiency.”

He disclosed that innovation and achievement, integrity and consistency, impact, community Involvement, strategy for growth, professional accomplishment, and local content represent the other criteria that the judges would be paying attention to.