Prize draw winners / T4A 2010

iPad competition

Simeon Oriko is a senior student at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, and is set to graduate in 2011 with a Bachelor of Business Information Technology. He has served as a chairperson of the Baraton Information Technology Students Association (BITSA) focusing on creating partnerships between BITSA and major tech industry players from Microsoft to SEACOM.

Simeon has contributed to the African tech scene in a number of ways. He spoke at Africa Gathering Nairobi in 2009 about the concept of mobile cloud computing and its potential impact on millions of Africans. He is currently developing a platform based on the same concept. He is also the founder and director of The Kuyu Project which is a digital literacy initiative aimed at teaching African high school students how to use social media to make a positive impact in their communities.

You can connect with Simeon through his blog, @mtotowajirani, or Facebook

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Chris Rault is the co-founder of Cape Town based Web Monkeys Design Studio, who develop and maintain a network of sites, including JoomlaJunkie.com, Prothemer.com, JoomlaTips.com and InspireChange.nu.
Chris is a designer, frontend developer & social entrepreneur with a passion for design, frontend engineering, css, web standards, interface design, performance optimization & seo.

When not designing or coding, Chris drives the development and innovation of Morph, a template framework for Joomla! – helping thousands of Joomla users, “Go live faster”.

Find him on Twitter @connectr, @joomlajunkies, @prothemer

Justin Slack is a web designer and front-end web developer from Cape Town with over ten years of professional experience in the web design industry. He specialises in creating custom web sites focusing primarily on WordPress theme design and development.

He is also the South African managing editor for global city guide site Unlike.net and teaches front end development and WordPress theme design at Friends of Design, an Adobe accredited design academy in Cape Town.

Examples of recent work can be viewed at http://www.justinslack.com

Find him on Twitter @urbanrenewal

Simon Barber is currently CTO of ThoughtFaqtory, a unique software development company based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best described as eclectic with an insatiable appetite for challenging the impossible.
Simon’s technical background includes spending some time working as a software developer in the UK for Liquorice, before returning to Cape Town to study. Having enrolled with UNISA with the best intentions to complete his Computer Science degree, his Adobe Flash/Flex skills were spotted by an American company. After an invitation to visit the client and attend a conference in America his visions and landscape changed forever and ThoughtFaqtory was born.

ThoughtFaqtory has been working on numerous exciting projects since it was first established back in 2006. In May 2007, Simon was approached by Wiley Publishers, to co-author the book Professional Adobe Flex 2, and he came to the attention of numerous global corporations. The company was kick started by America’s interest in Simon’s Adobe Flex development skills for the web and since then has further expanded its skills to realise the value from mobile devices to support this, via Android, iPhone and iPad. We are excited to say that this strategic development has so far been recognized and supported by American and global companies.

Find him on Twitter @spbarber

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Ashley Shaw is a Wiki Guru, BuddyPress Social Engineer and WordPress Fanatic.
These are his companies: http://lsdev.biz and http://feedmymedia.com

Find him on Twitter @feedmymedia