Africa Com Awards, now in their 6th year recognize leaders shaping Africa’s digital market and who’s making waves in the African Digi-sphere. The AfricaCom Awards 2013 shortlist follows a year-long campaign carried out by an expert panel of judges reviewing thousands of entries received from all across Africa.
The Africa Com Awards 2013 ceremony will be held November 13th at Waterfront Lookout, Cape Town.
The list is as below:
Best Network Improvement
Seacom – SEACOM’s African Ring
Orange – Internet for All
Tigo Tanzania – Network Improvement
SkyVision – Project Mauritius
Huawei Technologies – Huawei FMC Solution
Best Quality User Experience
Orange – My Orange
Deloitte Digital – Data Visualisation
Orange – My Orange Facebook
Orange – Internet Everywhere
Roamtech Solutions Ltd – Music Service
Ericsson – Ericsson Multiscreen Self-care
Citrix – T3100 Adaptive Traffic Manager
Best Cost Efficiency Solution for Africa
World Telecoms Lab – WTL’s 2nd Generation VoIP
Liquid Telecom – Liquid Telecom – the longest fibre links in Africa
Conduct Telecommunications – Open access, dark fibre infrastructure in the last mile
Astellia and Econet Wireless – Revenue Assurance
PeerApp – UltraBand transparent caching platform
TKM Maestro Limited
Rural Telecoms Award
Orange – Mobile Agricultural Info (Labaroun Kassoua)
Econet Solar International – HPS Home Power Station
Helios Towers Africa – Shared Telecoms Infrastructure
Safaricom limited – VUMA online
Vodacom Business Nigeria- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Solutions
SkyVision – Project Rodrigues
Best Connectivity Solution for Africa
Orange – ACE Cable
Poynting Antennas (Pty) Ltd – Subterranean Cellular Base Station
Conduct Telecommunications – Open access, dark fibre infrastructure in the last mile
Bluwan – Bluwan’s BroadFusion access solution and the Access in Africa project
Liquid Telecom – Liquid’s fibre network
Seacom – Remote Peering
Best Marketing Campaign
OgilvyOne Africa – Marketing Campaign for Airtel Nigeria – Padi Na Good Thing O! – Half Dollar
Orange – Orange African Cup of Nations 2013
Liquid Telecom – ‘I Am’
MTN – Welcome to the World
Best Mobile Marketing Campaign
Orange – E-Recharge & Win -Botswana
OgilvyOne Africa – Mobile Marketing Campaign for Airtel Kenya – FREE Your Smartphone
Mobitainment – The Excella’nt Competition
Best Digital Music Initiative
OgilvyOne Africa – Online marketing campaign for Airtel FRNDZ Unlimited Offer
Mahindra Comviva – Digital Music Library
Spice VAS Africa Pte Ltd – MOD360
Roamtech Solutions Ltd – Bonyeza 699
Best Mobile Money Service
Mahindra Comviva – Ecocash
Orange Niger – Mobile Ticketing
Safaricom Limited – M-Shwari
Orange – Orange Money Visa Service
ORANGE – Orange Money International Transfer
Mer Group Telecom Division – Mobile FinaGate
Best App for Africa
Prezence – Bid or Buy
SatPack Travel- Africa: Live App
Orange – My Orange
Opera Software – Opera Mini
Prezence – Real Time Wine
ydangle apps (Pty) Ltd – Flick
Most Innovative Service
Intersec – Loyalty Management Suite 5.0
Arabsat – Satellite communication services
TXT Ghana Ltd – Job 1917
Deloitte Digital – Data Visualiser
ORANGE – My Orange Facebook
Safaricom Limited – Cashless Payment Solution
MTN Swaziland – MTN XtraTime
Orange – Mobile Yellow Pages (User Generated Content Directory)
PCCW Global – PCCW Global: Delivering IPX in Africa
Best Pan African Initiative
Tata Communications – Africa Connectivity and Collaboration Expansion
Orange – International Airtime Hub
Orange – Orange Regional Money Transfer
SkyVision – SkyVision South Africa
Seacom – SEACOM’s IP Network
PCCW Global -Landlocked But Not Locked Out
Industry Personality of the Year
Safaricom Limited – Betty Mwangi-Thuo
WIOCC – Chris Wood
Liquid Telecom – Nic Rudnick
Changing Lives Award
Orange – Mobile Agricultural Info (Labaroun Kassouwa)
Open Idea – Medigraf: Remote Medical Diagnostics
Orange – EDUCI
MTN Swaziland – MTN Schools’ Connectivity Project
YooMee Africa AG – Broadband internet access for students and faculty, University of Douala, Cameroon
AfricaCom Awards 2014 will have 4 brand new categories for 2014:
– Most significant development for Commercial LTE Network – Operator
– Most significant development for Commercial LTE Network – Vendor
– VSAT Project of the Year
– VSAT Technology Innovation of the Year
