FMNA finalists for two awards
The tenth anniversary of the Mobile Messaging Awards sees ForgetMeNot Africa shortlisted for the Innovation in Messaging award for its Message Optimiser technology and the Messaging Application: Consumer award for its Facebook through Message Optimiser service.

Transforms even the most basic SMS-enabled device into a virtual smartphone
ForgetMeNot Africa’s Message Optimiser system bypasses the need for fixed telephone line Internet access, PCs, expensive subscriptions, smartphones, Java downloads and data connections to provide email, online chat, instant messaging and social networking to even the most rural communities in Africa. It transforms even the most basic SMS-enabled device into a virtual smartphone.

Jeremy George, Chief Operating Officer for ForgetMeNot Africa, said:
“ForgetMeNot Africa’s nomination for the Mobile Messaging Awards is a sign of our continued progress in bridging the digital divide in Africa and our goal of providing internet messaging on every mobile phone on the continent. In the past year our technology has enabled access to Facebook, in addition to email and online chat, for more than 47.5 million people in east, west, central and southern Africa, with further expansion planned in the next 12 months.”

The Mobile Messaging Awards will be presented at a cocktail reception as part of the Global Messaging Congress, supported by Informa Telecoms & Media, on Wednesday (June 22) at Radisson Blue Portman Hotel, in London.

For more information on the awards visit: http://www.globalmessagingcongress.com/features/awards_2011

She explains that price is the single biggest issue causing a Digital Divide for people in Senegal.

Peperusha

The new service, branded Peperusha, has been launched with ForgetMeNot Africa and its local partner Rapid Communications to give yu a competitive edge over its rivals in the rapidly growing Kenyan telecoms market. It will drive SMS traffic and attract customers from rival networks, while allowing yu to generate more revenue from mobile email, chat services and social networking integration.

No smartphones or Internet connections

Peperusha requires no smartphones, Internet connections, device upgrades or application downloads for users to send and receive email and online chat messages to friends and family at home and abroad.

It is particularly attractive to the technically-literate youth of Kenya, who are already very familiar with email and chat. Peperusha incorporates popular chat services such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Gtalk so that users can send and receive messages and invitations globally.

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Kenya’s mobile phone revolution brings 2-way email and online chat to 1 in 3 Kenyans
Over 15 million mobile phone subscribers in Kenya – over a third of the country’s population – will now be able to access email and online chat regardless of the make and model of their mobile phone. All standard phones with the ability to SMS are being transformed with the new Kipokezi service bringing low-cost email and chat within the reach of millions of Kenyans, improving communications with their friends and families, both at home and abroad

Standard phones now transformed
All standard phones with the ability to SMS are being transformed with the new Kipokezi service bringing low-cost email and chat within the reach of millions of Kenyans, improving communications with their friends and families, both at home and abroad.

Safaricom Kenya’s largest telecoms operator
The new Kipokezi service is being rolled out by Kenya’s largest telecoms operator, Safaricom, suppliers of mobile phone connectivity for almost 9 in 10 Kenyan mobile phone subscribers. The service will be available to Safaricom’s entire subscriber base and is uses ForgetMeNot Africa’s, eTXT technology a unified messaging systems for telecommunications operators.

Safaricom CEO, Michael Joseph, said:

“This service packs great value to our customers. They will be able to handle their business online, check mail, find information, chat and keep in touch from wherever they are in a fast and cost-efficient manner. The price of internet-ready phones has kept many Kenyans off the web, a trend we are determined to change. This innovation is also at one with our constant strategy of increasing the utility of the mobile phone and expanding the reach of our data product.”

Low cost email and chat including MSN, Yahoo and Gtalk
Kipokezi enables Safaricom to place low-cost email and chat within the reach of millions of Kenyans but especially serves the technically-literate youth of Kenya, who are already very familiar with email and chat. Kipokezi is particularly attractive to young “early adopters” because it gives them a considerably cheaper and more convenient way of accessing email and chat compared to a standard Internet connection and without the need for data plans or handset upgrades.

What’s more, the service incorporates popular chat services such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Gtalk so that users can send and receive messages and invitations globally.

No internet needed just a handset
ForgetMeNot Africa’s unique Handset Initiation (HI) technology bypasses the need for Internet access and the latest handsets to offer an email service to all mobile phone users, even those in the remotest of areas.

ForgetMeNot Africa’s Chief Operating Officer, Jeremy George said:

“Almost four years ago, Safaricom revolutionised money transfer and storage in Kenya with the launch of its mobile money service enabling users to send, store and receive money through their mobile phones. Today they are giving all Kenyans the opportunity to bridge the rural-urban digital divide by giving them cheap access to chat and email services on standard mobile phones, without the need for an Internet connection, data plans or expensive handsets.”

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AfricaCom Awards 2009

All of the ForgetMeNot Africa team are very proud to be nominated for the esteemed AfricaCom Awards 2009 and it illustrates the huge strides we have made in a very short space of time in Africa. Our unique Message Optimiser (MO) technology bypasses the need for Internet access and opens up 2-way email, instant messaging and social networking interactions to all mobile phone users, even those in the remotest of areas of Africa.

Our Message Optimiser service will transform low grade mobile phones into stepping stones across the global digital divide as the people in Lesotho are now experiencing with our recent launch there with Econet Telecom Lesotho.

ForgetMeNot Africa is a specialist in unified messaging for telecommunications operators. Message optimiser provides two-way email, Instant messaging (IM) and interaction with social networking sites for a network’s entire mobile customer base including subscribers on Ultra Low Cost handsets.

Visit us at Stand P09 at AfricaCom, Cape Town, Nov 11th and 12th 2009 for a demonstration and watch this space to find out how we get on at AfricaCom Awards 2009.

Their work assists the poorest urban slum communities, enabling them to improve the welfare of their most vulnerable children, many of whom have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDs. This is achieved through social and economic projects which include; payments to carers (usually the orphan’s relatives), business skills training and start up loans, urban agriculture, health and sanitation and educational support.

Andrew one of the FMNA team will be running in the upcoming “Run To The Beat” half marathon in London (27th Sep. 2009 ) in aid of SMCF Ethiopia and also The Dublin Marathon on the 26th October 2009.

We would appreciate your kind support for this great cause, just click on the link below.

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FMNA Team and SMCF Ethiopia

Filmed at West Africa Com, Abuja, Nigeria June 2009.