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Angola wins African Prize on Information Technologies

Angola has won the first category prize of the Technology In Government in Africa (TIGA) awards on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) with the project "Government`s Portal", in the category of better public services to citizens and communities through the ICTs.

The information was given to Angop on Wednesday by a source from the Angolan National Commission for Information Technologies (CNTI).

According to a CNTI`s press officer, Luisa dos Santos, the announcement of the prize happened last Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the fringes of a forum on statistics, in which Angola was represented with a delegation from the mentioned institution, led by the co-ordinator of the project, Elsa Caposso.

The prize was handed to Elsa Caposso, by the executive secretary-general of the UN Economic Commission For Africa (ECA), Abdoulie Janneh, in the presence of the secretary-general of the Angolan Embassy in Ethiopia, Nelson Cosmo.

This recently instituted prize also included the category of best health service through the ICTs, best education service to citizens through the ICTs and the fourth category is best economic and financial service.

The other recipients of awards were Rwanda, Kenya, Egypt and Senegal.

The award was promoted by the ECA.

Author : Angola Press

Date : 05/03/2007

Source : http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/not...

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