ForgetMeNot Africa wins innovation award

INNOVATIONS

ForgetMeNot Africa, which enables users of even old handsets to send emails and chat online, has won an innovation award.

The company’ s message optimizer solution won the coveted Innovation in Messaging award from the 160Characters Association.

ForgetMeNot Africa’ s system has provided access to Facebook, as well as email and online chat, to more than 47.5 million people in east, west, central and southern Africa in the past 12 months, bypassing the need for fixed telephone lines, smartphones and data connections.

Other award winners were:

• Messaging Infrastructure or Platform. Winner - Txtlocal services, entered by Txtlocal Ltd
• Messaging Application or Service: Public Sector. Winner - Keeping the public in the loop at a time of civil unrest, entered by txttools Ltd
• Messaging Application: Business. Winner - ImpulsePay: a mobile solution for publishers, entered by ImpulsePay
• Messaging Application: Consumer Award. Winner - SafeBox Private SMS, entered by SafeBox Ltd
• Mobile Financial Services Solution. Winner - Billing Score: Protecting mobile payments from fraud, entered by BillingScore
• Messaging Application or Service: Social Use. Winner - SMS 139 Railway Enquiry Information, entered by Spice Digital Ltd
• Effective Use of Mobile Messaging for Health. Winner - Florence, entered by mediaburst