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ForgetMeNot Africa nominated for Mobile Messaging Awards 2011 · 20 Jun 2011

ForgetMeNot Africa has been nominated for two categories at 160 Characters’ Mobile Messaging Awards, which celebrate the very best in messaging innovation and development.

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 click here