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.
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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…)
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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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yu, the mobile brand of Kenya’s third largest telecoms network Essar Telecom Kenya has this week launched ForgetMeNot Africa’s Handset Initiation (HI) technology to enable its entire 1.6 million subscriber base to access email and online chat on standard SMS-capable mobile phones. (more…)
Tags: chat to sms, email to sms, FMNA, ForgetMeNot Africa, Kenya, Message Optimiser, mobile email, Yu
In a David v Goliath contest, ForgetMeNot Africa’s Message Optimiser came second to Blackberry Messenger for the Innovation in Messaging award, at the Global Messaging Awards held last night in London. (more…)
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