BUILDING AFRICA'S DIGITAL ECONOMY
BUILDING AFRICA'S DIGITAL ECONOMY
BUILDING AFRICA'S DIGITAL ECONOMY
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6TH ANNUAL<br />
PROMOTING <strong>DIGITAL</strong> EXCELLENCE IN AFRICA<br />
CHECK OUT THIS YEAR’S CATEGORIES – INCLUDING 4 NEW AWARDS<br />
Network Improvement - User Experience – Cost Efficiency – Rural Telecoms – Connectivity Solution – Marketing<br />
Campaign – Mobile Marketing – Best App – Digital Music – Mobile Money – Most Innovative Service – Pan African<br />
Initiative – Industry Personality – Changing Lives Award - More details on www.africacom-awards.com<br />
2012 HALL OF FAME<br />
CLOSING DATE<br />
FOR ENTRIES<br />
6th<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
2013<br />
BEST NETWORK<br />
IMPROVEMENT<br />
Helios Towers<br />
Africa – Shared<br />
Telecoms<br />
Infrastructure<br />
BEST<br />
MARKETING<br />
CAMPAIGN:<br />
Prezence<br />
Digital –<br />
#Mandelastory<br />
MOST<br />
INNOVATIVE<br />
SERVICE:<br />
Orange –<br />
Deezer<br />
BEST SMART-<br />
DEVICE FOR<br />
AFRICA:<br />
Etisalat Misr –<br />
Smart Device<br />
BEST<br />
QUALITY USER<br />
EXPERIENCE:<br />
Sicap – Mobile<br />
Money ATM<br />
BEST PAN<br />
AFRICAN<br />
INITIATIVE:<br />
WIOCC – Seamless,<br />
High-Capacity International<br />
Connectivity Ring around Africa<br />
13 NOVEMBER 2013<br />
Find out more on<br />
www.africacomawards.com<br />
BEST COST<br />
EFFICIENCY<br />
INITIATIVE:<br />
ZTE – Solar<br />
Solution for<br />
Airtel<br />
THE 2012<br />
MOBILE DATA<br />
AND SOCIAL<br />
MEDIA AWARD:<br />
Bozza Mobile –<br />
The Bozza.mobi App<br />
RURAL<br />
TELECOMS<br />
AWARD:<br />
Viettel –<br />
Movitel Rural<br />
Network<br />
THANK YOU TO THE<br />
AFRICACOM AWARDS 2013<br />
SPONSORS<br />
FOUNDING SPONSOR<br />
ETISALAT NIGERIA PRIZE FOR INNOVATION<br />
INDUSTRY<br />
PERSONALITY<br />
OF THE YEAR:<br />
Alan Knott-<br />
Craig – Cell C<br />
BEST BACKHAUL<br />
SOLUTION<br />
FOR AFRICA:<br />
Comtech EF Data<br />
– Mobile Backhaul<br />
Solution<br />
CHANGING LIVES<br />
AWARD:<br />
Safaricom –<br />
DAKTARI-<br />
1525<br />
AFRICA APPS AWARDS:<br />
ORANGE AFRICAN SOCIAL VENTURE PRIZE<br />
BEST SMART<br />
PHONE APP:<br />
Prezence Digital –<br />
Ster-Kinekor mobile app<br />
BEST FEATURE<br />
PHONE APP:<br />
biNu<br />
CHANGING LIVES AWARD CATEGORY<br />
SPONSOR<br />
CATEGORY SPONSOR<br />
ORANGE AFRICAN SOCIAL VENTURE PRIZE: THE WINNING PROJECTS ARE:<br />
VIVUUS LIMITED (€25,000):<br />
Vivus Limited, a start-up from Côte d’Ivoire<br />
that allows agricultural or farm produce<br />
traders to optimize their stocks, and thereby<br />
avoid waste, by using a SMS-based system<br />
providing information on ongoing deals.<br />
TAKACHAR: (€15, 000)<br />
Takachar provides a system that has<br />
already been launched in Kenya to improve<br />
waste management by using telecoms<br />
technologies to track waste collection in<br />
real time.<br />
NIOKOBOK: (€10, 000)<br />
The e-commerce business Niokobok enables<br />
Senegalese people living abroad to send<br />
basic necessities to their families back<br />
home avoiding the extra cost of transferring<br />
money.<br />
ETISALAT PRIZE FOR INNOVATION:<br />
Most Innovative Product/Service ($25,000):<br />
Mobile Maths Practice<br />
ETISALAT PRIZE FOR INNOVATION:<br />
Most Innovative Idea ($10,000):<br />
i-Connect Project<br />
FOR AWARD ENQUIRIES CONTACT:<br />
Melissa Willock, melissa.willock@informa.com or Becky Lyons becky.lyons@informa.com, +44 (0) 207 017 4725
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