Wits Universityâs IT guru wins top ICT award
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Johannesburg - Wits Universityâs chief information officer (CIO), Dr Stanley Mpofu, has stamped his authority on the information and communications technology (ICT) industry.
The 57-year-old recently bagged the visionary leadership award for ICT at the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa.
The award is for dedicated individuals in the ICT industry, and Mpofu was announced as the joint winner with Nomthi Nelwamondo, chief information officer of Assupol.
âThe award means a lot to me and it shows that the university has a dedicated team of workers in the ICT division committed to their work.â
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) capped an unusual year and its first ever virtual President’s Awards ceremony by naming joint winners of the Visionary CIO of the Year Award this week.
Dr Stanley Mpofu, CIO of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Nomthi Nelwamondo, CIO of Assupol, were jointly recognised as 2020’s Visionary CIO of the Year for their professionalism and excellence, particularly during the challenges of 2020.
Ntuthuko Shezi, serial entrepreneur and innovator, and founder of livestock investment platform Livestock Wealth, was named IT Personality of the Year for 2020. Girl Code, an NPO empowering young girls and women through technology, was named winner of the Social Responsibility/Community Award, and Andre Jacobs, Chief of Product Engineering at IoT.nxt, was winner of the Technology Excellence Award.
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