Sales-Kit now called Valomnia Sales Winner of the African Content Award 2014 for best african mobile solution in the m-business & Commerce category

540 million users in Africa reflect one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets in the world. The conversion from voice to data is in full swing. The World Summit Award, an initiative organized in the UN process of the World Summit on the Information society (WSIS), is presenting this year for the first time the best products submitted as national best from 41 African countries.

The African Content Award selects mobile content which tackles local challenges and which demonstrates a strong impact on African society. Coming from 15 countries all over the African continent, the African Content Award awardees demonstrate the richness of mobile content: mobile solutions supporting every day’s challenges and enhancing African citizen’s lives.

“Our goal is to find and promote apps that tackle local challenges and have a strong impact on the society. Mobile technologies changed business conditions and ways of living in Africa, offering new perspectives to all citizens. With this new initiative we want to support local entrepreneurs and innovators.”, states WSA chairman Peter A. Bruck. The African Content Award, a regional initiative of the World Summit Award (WSA) to promote and recognize creativity from Africa and to encourage collaboration among the regional networks, is proudly presenting its jury’s selection of 8 Winners and 15 Runner-ups.

The African content Award winners: African diversity in mobile solutions

Africa is on fast advance concerning mobile technology, being innovative and creative in their solutions for local challenges the African Content Award delivers a vast variety in mobile content. Be it mBusiness or mCulture, be it a health solution you seek: the African Content Award winners offer valuable mContent to everyone.

Let’s start with business, mBusiness to be exact: Save time, customize your catalogue, take orders and manage them in real-time, check reports and analytics & hold efficient sales meetings. Being a sales force on the road or a business owner on the travel, Sales-Kit from Tunisia enables you to do business anytime anywhere. As a web mobile cloud app and cross-media application Sales-Kit is innovative and empowering benefiting sales teams and managers alike.

Users in Africa offer one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets in the world (source AfDB). Appropriate deployment of mobile technology will support African countries to leap-frog their developmental challenges. But mobile content offers millions of possibilities and varieties, and it is most important to select the real gems from costume jewelry.

The African Content Award selects and promotes mobile content pearls which tackle local challenges and have a strong impact on African society. This year’s awardees offer with their most innovative solutions new ways of living in Africa, offering new perspectives to all citizens, leap-frogging Africa into a fast advance into mobile innovation. The regional winners will be awarded during the 2nd Ministerial Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa, organized by the African Development Bank, Morocco, Rabat, to be held at the Academy of Science and Technology Hassan II from October 14-17, 2014. The forum will bring together government representatives, private sector, academia, scientists, innovators, and civil society from the region. The African Content Award is organized in partnership with the African Development Bank, ITIDA, ISESCO, African Innovation Foundation & Millennium@EDU .

Source : aca.wsa-mobile.org