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"omobola olubusola johnson born 28 june 1963 is a nigerian technocrat and minister of communication technology in the cabinet of president goodluck jonathan she was educated at the international school ibadan and the university of manchester beng electrical and electronic engineering and kings college london msc digital electronics she has a phd from cranfield university prior to her ministerial appointment she was country managing director for accenture nigeria she had worked with accenture since 1985 when it was anderson consultingmrs johnson is the pioneer head of the countrys communication technology ministry which was created as part of the transformation agenda of the nigerian governmentomobola has earned several public commendation since taking up her first government assignment as minister in 2011 this is following the numerous achievements of her ministry notably among which is the launch of the nigcomsatir satellite this has helped to complement the countrys efforts at fibre connectivity and the provision of greater bandwidth the ministry under her watch has also deployed more than 700 personal computers to secondary schools in the first phase of school access programme sap while about 193 tertiary institutions in the country now have internet access in the tertiary institution access programme tiap and 146 communities have access to community communication centers deployed around the countryother achievements of the ministry under omobola includea collaboration with the central bank of nigeria to drive digital and financial inclusion using the post office infrastructure10gbs fibre optic network to connect nigerian universities to wider research and education universe in partnership with the nuc world bank and tetfundfacilitating egovernment drive with over 86000 email addresses deployed for government use on the govng domain names and 250 websites hosted on govng platform as well as 382 mdas connected in abuja abuja and other parts of the countrycreating the enabling environment for local development of ipadequivalent tabletssigning of an mou with nokia to establish a lab in nigeria to support the domestic mobile software industryinauguration of the national council on information communication technology with state fct commissioner of ict as memberson may 30 2013 omobola presented the nigerian national broadband plan for 2013 to 2018 to president goodluck jonathan following a minor cabinet reshuffle in september of 2013 by president goodluck jonathan she was given an extra task of supervising the operations of the federal ministry of science and technology a responsibility she is still carrying out"
"dame fiona judith kidman dnzm obe born 26 march 1940 in hawera new zealand is a new zealand novelist poet scriptwriter and short story authorkidman grew up in northland and worked as a librarian in rotorua after leaving school she married ian kidman in 1960 and they have a son and daughter she now lives in wellingtonkidman began her writing career as a freelance journalist in the early 1960s and was mentored by bruce mason and william austin in theatre and radio theatre her first of eight novels was published in 1979 and she has also published four short story collections and four collections of poetry her work is often concerned with the effects of suburban and provincial lower middleclass life its morals and its hypocrisieskidman is active in the literary community serving as the national president of pen from 1981 to 1983 and as the president of the new zealand book council from 1992 to 1995 in 1988 she founded and ran the fiona kidman creative writing school which is now part of whitireia community polytechnic she was the meridian energy katherine mansfield memorial fellow for 2006 and president of honour of the new zealand book council her latest novel the captive wife was runnerup for the deutz medal and won the readers choice award at the 2006 montana new zealand book awardsin the 1988 new year honours kidman was made an officer of the order of the british empire for services to literature she was appointed a dame companion of the new zealand order of merit in the 1998 new year honours for services to literature"
"scott isaacs is a software architect and web visionary who is best known for the development of dynamic html dhtml which is at the core of what is commonly termed ajax scott was a partner software architect at microsoft corporation for over 20 years before leaving for amazoncom in september 2013 one of his first projects at amazon was to help establish the amazon prime air vision and teamscott helped invent and define many web technologies he worked on the first activex control helped create the forms package in microsoft office defined many web standards and drove the architecture for microsoft gadgets and frameworks driving windows liveas a program manager on the internet explorer team in the mid1990s scott not only defined dhtml but also created the css 2d positioning specification many of the form enhancements eg label fieldset helping improve webbased form accessibility and usability xml data islands and much more he wrote the original definitive guide to dynamic html inside dynamic html published by microsoft press scott also invented the iframe html tag it has been speculated that the tag name stands for the isaacs frame although scott has denied thisfrom 20042009 scott was an architect for msn windows live scott was responsible for inventing the widget architecture originally called gadgets for windows live and helped create startcom a now defunct customizable portal scott also drove the client architecture that ran windows live and msn services msn hotmail msn spaces and windows live were built around his dhtmlbased gadgetwidget architecturescott also developed sandboxing technology that explored how to create secure mashups"
"lawrence tom sawyer baron sawyer born 12 may 1943 is a british trade unionist and labour party politician he was general secretary of the labour party from 1994 to 1998sawyer was educated at dodmire school eastbourne comprehensive school and darlington technical collegeafter his education sawyer worked in engineering before moving into trade unionism he became a national union of public employees nupe officer in 1971 becoming their northern regional officer in 1975in 1981 he was made deputy general secretary of nupe and served through its merger to become unison until 1994 in this role he served as a national executive committee member of the labour party between 1981 and 1994 and was made chair of the party in 1991in 1994 sawyer became general secretary of the labour party and led the party successfully into the 1997 general election he stood down at the 1998 party conference and was created a life peer as baron sawyer of darlington in the county of durham on 4 august 1998 he is now a director of several companies and public sector bodiesin november 2004 it was announced that lord sawyer would become the next chancellor of the university of teesside replacing former conservative mp and member of the european commission leon brittanthe labour history archive and study centre at the peoples history museum in manchester holds the papers of sawyer which range from 1985 to 1998"