Africa-Press – Angola. The three winners of the categories of the International Association of Portuguese-Speaking Communications Award (AICEP), 2023 edition, were awarded this Monday night in Luanda, in an act chaired by the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication , Mario Oliveira.
The award ceremony, which took place within the framework of the Annual General Meeting and the XXX Forum of AICEP for Lusophone Communications 2023, awarded, for the category of “Innovation”, the company UNITEL T+ from Cape Verde, with the project “Unitek ”, an innovation laboratory that works as a program to accelerate the incubation of technological projects.
Nuno Miguel Terras Marques, chairman of the Executive Board of the “Visabeira SGPS” group, was awarded in the “Leadership” category and, in the “Career” category, the Angolan José Gualberto de Matos.
The general director of Unitel Cabo Verde, Inoweze Ferreira, spoke of the bets made by the company in terms of innovation, having stated that innovation is a survival vehicle for Unitel.
He said that the company unites the realization of different things with sustainable ones, such as the creation of an innovation ecosystem that can serve the African continent. “We have several ideas on our continent, we need to put them into practice, to put projects to work, creating entrepreneurship”, he said.
For the chairman of the Executive Board of the “Visabeira SGPS” group, TVcabo Angola, Nuno Marques, teamwork was important for leadership to work, capacity and team spirit was fundamental for the recognition of the manager, according to him.
José Gualberto de Matos spoke of AICEP’s ability to unite countries since the most difficult times, after independence, allowing the exchange of experience to be exercised within the operators, as well as the creation of environments for professionals in the field to interact annually.
For his part, the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Mário Oliveira, said that AICEP has been working with a view to developing the sector, in terms of exchanging experiences and training staff, considering important pillars in valuing the community Portuguese official language.
Mário Oliveira referred that Portuguese speakers have a significant representation worldwide, which is why the international union of telecommunications must be felt in terms of decisions.
AICEP is made up of Angola, Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, East Timor, Guinea Bissau and Macau.
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