Revolution
The mobile web revolution has already spread around the world. The phase of it that we live in is where we see the internet hitting critical mass based on the availability of web connectivity on mobile devices. (more…)
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ForgetMeNot Africa was shortlisted as an African tech start ups to watch in 2012 by Memeburn.com. (more…)
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Jeremy George, Chief Operating Officer, ForgetMeNot Africa, talks about bringing data services such as internet-free Facebook to basic handsets in Africa.
He also explains how ForgetMeNot Africa are working with global handset manufacturers such as Sony Ericsson, to build mobile applications utilising the SMS channel.
Tags: Africa, AfricaCom 2011, applications, ForgetMeNot Africa, Glo Nigeria, handset manufacturers, Jeremy George, mobile, SMS, Sony Ericsson
The ForgetMeNot Africa team are in Cape Town today for the day one of AfricaCom (more…)
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ForgetMeNot Africa pitched at Digital Innovators Final at ITU World2011.
We will help Ghana’s farmers & fishermen by providing real time information and help them boost their incomes and the local economy.
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ForgetMeNot Africa has been nominated in the Best New Service category at this year’s prestigious AfricaCom Awards.
Facebook, email and online chat access using SMS
Africa’s premier telecoms award gala has shortlisted ForgetMeNot Africa for the deployment of its Message Optimiser technology with Econet Wireless Zimbabwe’s eTXT service, which provides Facebook, email and online chat access using SMS to all of Econet’s 5 million subscribers. (more…)
Tags: AfricaCom Awards, Best New Service, Econet Wireless, eTXT, ForgetMeNot Africa, Message Optimiser technology, Zimbabwe
The ForgetMeNot Africa team are excited today after having been nominated for two categories at the prestigious Meffys Awards in London tonight.
The Meffys – regarded as “the benchmark in the mobile media industry” has shortlisted ForgetMeNot Africa for both the Best Technology Innovation Award for eTXT Facebook from Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, and in the Best Mobile First Innovation category for Message Optimiser.
Fingers crossed.
Tags: Best Mobile First Innovation, Best Technology Innovation Award, ForgetMeNot Africa, Meffys, Message Optimiser
FMNA and Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen (GNAFF) to cooperate in providing enhanced messaging and information service to millions of farmers and fishermen in Ghana.
Technology to help boost agricultural production
The use of technology to help boost agricultural production, be it pre-cultivation, crop cultivation and harvesting or post harvest management is one of the key areas that the Government of Ghana wants to strengthen. (more…)
Tags: ForgetMeNot Africa, Ghana, Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen (GNAFF), Message Optimiser
ForgetMeNot Africa has won the coveted Innovation in Messaging award at the 160 Characters Mobile Messaging Awards.
ForgetMeNot Africa’s Message Optimiser technology took home the title at the events ceremony on Wednesday, June 22. The 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: “This award celebrates ForgetMeNot Africa’s continued progress in bridging the digital divide in Africa. Our goal remains to provide 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.”
ForgetMeNot Africa was also nominated for the Messaging Application: Consumer award for its Facebook through Message Optimiser service.
Award winners can be seen in full here.
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