HeHe Limited wins People’s Choice Award, heads off to Geneva!

It has been an amazing two months for the HeHe team, with the People’s Choice Award in one hand and a trip to the ITU Telecom World 2011 expo in Geneva in the other.

HeHe Limited on the 8th of September won second place in the People’s Choice Awards organized by the ITU Broadband Commission with the aim of engaging the youth.

This event was hosted by His Excellency Paul Kagame and was joined by Mr. Carlos Slim – both co-chairs of the ITU Broadband Commission.

The HeHe team could not contain its excitement at the opportunity to demo the Gahunda app to the distinguished panel that included Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the ITU, and Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO. We worked on our presentation all week even with our final exams looming over our heads.

The hard work was worth it! Our second place win guaranteed us a spot in the Rwandan stand at the ITU Telecom World 2011 expo, and on the 22nd of October, we were off to Geneva.

The summit was a vital platform to show case many of the applications we have developed and are yet to launch for the Rwandan market. Our stand was visited by several high level officials like the Prime Minister of Rwanda, Pierre Habumuremyi, the President of Burundi, the Vice President of Tanzania and Dr. Hamadoun Touré to mention but a few.

The four -day summit that marked its 40th anniversary celebrations and was marked with the Broadband Leadership Summit which entailed highest level meetings on the implementation of broadband worldwide, exhibitions, competitions and networking sessions.