AfricaCom is still running strong at the CTICC Convention Centre,
which is located in Cape Town – South Africa. The winners of the digital
industry’s most anticipated Awards were announced during a prestigious
awards ceremony.
The 2014 AfricaCom Awards were fiercely contested this year with a
record number of entries competing for the judge’s attention and
approval.
The Awards that recognise and acknowledge excellence in the digital
technology, ICT, Telecommunications and Media across Africa, have grown
in stature every year. The winning projects below clearly demonstrate
that Africa is leading innovation in the development of the digital
ecosystem.
The winners for AfricaCom 2014 are as follows:
1. Best App for Africa – Bharti Airtel – internet.org.app
2. Best Connectivity Solutions for Africa – WIOCC – Connecting Somalia – Closing the final link
3. Best Cost Efficiency Solutions for Africa – Huawei – Africa’s first SDN innovation: MTN TT Project
4. Best Device for Africa – Solarway – Solar powered mobile phone charging station
5. Best Marketing Campaign – Huawei – MTN’s Nelson Mandela Birthday’s 67 minutes campaign
6. Best Mobile Money Solution – Bharti Airtel – Airtel Money
7. Best Network Improvement – WIOCC – Extending WIOCC’s Pan-African network into Somalia
8. Best Pan-African Initiative – Liquid Telecom – East Africa Fibre Ring
9. Breakthrough LTE Development – Ericsson – Unitel
10. Changing Lives Award – Afrigis – Gender based violence command centre (GBVCC)
11. Excellence in Customer Experience Management – Orange – ‘100% Successful Calls’ suite of services
12. Most Innovative Service – Millicom Tanzania – Tigo Pesa – International Mobile Money Transfer
13. VSAT Innovation for Africa – Liquid Telecom – Shared MPLS Satellite service.
14. Etisalat Pan-African Prize for Innovation 2014 winner of IDEA – MEMMCOL
Etisalat Pan-African Prize for Innovation 2014 winner of Product –
Exam Mate – an exam preparatory software, specifically for Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board exams (JAMB). The app was developed,
as an offline product for mobile PC’s to aid usage amongst exam
candidates who do not have access to mobile broadband. Presently, the
product is available for download at an online market hub for usage on
mobile PC’s. From an economic point of view, with an average of 1.5
million candidates seating for JAMB examination annually, getting the
product at a very affordable rate across to a projected target of 1
million candidates will generate high revenue. With detailed voiced
explanations in various subjects, applied knowledge will be imparted
into the candidates, which will remain relevant in whichever field they
find themselves later in life.
The Orange Social venture Prize 2014 – Out of the 452 submitted projects the following prize winners were selected:
The first prize has been awarded to Modisar Botswana. The project is a
livestock farm management application (desktop, web & mobile) that
makes it easy for a farmer to manage his\her farm. The mission of
Modisar is of resuscitating the livestock industry and cultivating
livestock farming interest among the youth by marrying today’s
technologies and the nation’s passion for farming, Modisar aims to
ensure the continuity and sustainability of the livestock sector, a
major contributor to the national Gross Domestic Product in Botswana.
The second prize has been awarded to Station Côte d’Ivoire. Station
Energy has developed an innovative retail concept of energy services.
Inspired by both the model service stations gasoline and African grocery
shop Station Energy is a solution to enable energy access and
affordability for all. In Côte d’Ivoire, it is a shop equipped with
photovoltaic panels to provide various shared services (rental batteries
allowing access to lighting, renting cold spaces, Internet access,
sales of low consumption equipment, etc.) in rural or urban areas.
The third prize has been awarded to Bouquet Pass Santé Senegal. This
project is a platform that allows the diaspora or persons residing in
Senegal, to pay medical consultation for you or for a loved one directly
online.
The Orange Partner API prize has been awarded to The Twinklebox
Project in Kenya. Twinkle box combines mobile technology with solar
technology, allowing Kenyan customers to buy scratch cards to pay for
energy, just as they would for mobile phones. This model will solve the
high upfront cost problem of solar solutions to be the same price of
keresone light.
Source: itnewsafrica.com
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