AfricaCom Awards 04 winners announced

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AfricaCom Awards 2014 winners announced --

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:22

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AfricaCom 2014 took place from 11 to 13 November 2014 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). The winners of the 2014 AfricaCom Awards were announced on 12 November.

The organisers report that the awards, which recognise and acknowledge excellence in the digital technology, ICT, Telecommunications and Media across Africa, have grown in stature every year with a record number of entries submitted this year.

The winners are:

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 (interactive media interface design i.e. IMID) a design to enable consumers remotely monitor their Energy Meters.

15. 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).

16. 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 second prize has been awarded to Station C te d Ivoire. Station Energy 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 Sant 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.

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