CIO Show

Posted on 02/03/2010

Over 200 Chief Information Officers (CIO’s) and leading managers of the Dutch ICT vendors were spectators Innovation Awards ceremony. During the exclusive CIO Dinner, with the theme “Burgundian”, artists such as Candy Dulfer and her band Funky Stuff, Big, Black Beautiful, Heeren van het Goede Leven and Supperclub DJ Thomas, entertained the audience.

TIMMIES
Maarten de Vries (Philips), Schiphol Group and SIG (Software Improvement Group) are the winners of the TIMMIES; Innovation Awards 2010! They have been selected as winners for the following three categories: The most innovative CIO, The most innovative company, and the most innovative ICT Vendor. These Awards are an initiative of ICT Media and CIO Magazine, meant to stimulate innovative projects for vendors as well as for customers of the information technology.

CharITy
This event was the right place for the organisation to use the ‘momentum’ with over 200 ICT decision makers, giving them an update on the Close the Gap’s ‘memorandum’. A presentation was given on the total amount of PC’s yet donated to CTG from the Dutch CIO community. An astonishing ‘18.000’ of the 30.000 commitment has already been accomplished.
Olivier was happy to showcase with some pictures the status of the recent implementation of the public computer rooms at the Limpopo University in South-Africa. (see picture)

Close the Gap was also proud to attend the hand-over by CharITy’s chairman of a donation of 20.000 EUR to Close the Gap’s partner IICD, director Caroline Figueres.

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