City of Cape Town CIO Nirvesh Sooful received the Computer Society of SA (CSSA) Western Cape Chapter`s IT Personality of the Year Award last week.
Sooful won the award, which makes him a contender for the overall SA IT Personality of the Year Award, for driving Cape Town`s Smart City strategy, which is focused on enhancing local government service delivery.
The Smart City strategy won international recognition from research firm Gartner and the Bill Gates Access Learning Award in 2003, which has prize money of $1 million (R6.4 million). The European Institute for Comparative Urban Research, based at Rotterdam University, also ranked Cape Town`s Smart City strategy as equal to, if not better than, strategies for Europe`s leading cities.
It is claimed that the City of Cape Town`s R265 million investment in the Smart City SAP implementation should be paid back in three years.
Runners up for the award were Gary Stanley, CEO and chief systems architect for Gush CRM Technologies, and Anthony Turner, founder and MD of Smartsource.
The IT Student of the Year Award went to Navrina Ebrahim, an information systems honours student at the University of the Western Cape.
IT Student of the Year runners up were Celine Hendricks of the Cape Technikon and Leon Hough from the University of Stellenbosch.
The CSSA`s Western Cape Chapter`s Chairman Award was won by Donald Cook from UCT for compiling the questions for the annual Computer Olympiad.
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