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Zoaib Hoosen: Empowering people

Zoaib Hoosen was the finalist in the IITPSA's 2016 IT Personality of the Year Award.

Kirsten Doyle
By Kirsten Doyle, ITWeb contributor.
Johannesburg, 23 Nov 2016
Zoaib Hoosen: We are making technology more readily accessible, empowering people and businesses to do and achieve more.
Zoaib Hoosen: We are making technology more readily accessible, empowering people and businesses to do and achieve more.

Hoosen focuses Microsoft South Africa on being the productivity and platform business for the cloud-first, mobile-first world of today, striving to empower all people and businesses to do and achieve more.

He also wants to make technology more readily accessible to a wider portion of the population, and believes it's vital in addressing some of the country's core socio-economic challenges.

Microsoft SA is aligning its social investments and activities with the South African government's national priorities, under the themes of empowering youth, enhancing business and enterprise skills development, safety and security, building a capable state, and rural development.

"I have a passion for education. We have agreed to train the 400 000 teachers in the country on how to teach with technology because it's pointless putting stuff in classrooms and not doing anything with it. As of the end of June, we've trained 80 000 teachers."

Read about the other IT Personality finalists

BRANDON BEKKER
CAREL DU TOIT
EDWARD LAWRENCE
ELIZABETH GOULD
LEE NAIK
LUVUYO RANI
MARIUS COETZEE
SBU SHABALALA

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