Organisations we’re partnering with and how you can get involved…
Partnerships are a key element of any conference – your involvement helps to raise the profile of the event and the event helps your organisation promote itself and grow. Whatever the nature of your organisation, we’d actively encourage you to get in touch with us to see if we can work together to make Mobile Web East Africa as successful as possible.
There are four categories of partnerships available at Mobile Web East Africa:
Sponsor
Supporting Organisation
Media Partner
Knowledge Partner
If you represent a prominent organisation, media company or if you write an extremely successful blog and you want to explore the potential of working alongside all amber on this event please get in touch by emailing info@allamber.co.uk.
OFFICIAL HOST ORGANISATION
Kenya ICT Board
The Kenya ICT Board’s vision is that the country becomes a top ten global ICT hub and that this will be achieved by rapidly and innovatively transforming Kenya through promotion of ICT for socio-economic enrichment of our society. To achieve this a fourfold mandate has been created:
1. Positioning and promoting Kenya as an ICT destination (locally and internationally), especially promoting Business process Outsourcing (BPO) and Offshoring.
2. Advise the government on all relevant matters pertaining to the development and promotion of ICT industries in the country.
3. Providing government and other stakeholders with skills, capacity and funding for anchor implementation of ICT projects for development.
4. Coordinating, directing and implementing anchor ICT projects in development.
Furthermore the Board has four distinct objectives:
Develop, launch and sustain a globally compelling brand marketing campaign for Kenya ICT
- To develop and promote competitive ICT industries in Kenya
- To develop world class Kenyan ICT institutions
- To increase ICT access, utilization for all Kenyans (become a principle driver in bridging the digital divide)
For more information please visit www.ict.go.ke
APP DEVELOPER SPONSOR
RIM
Research In Motion (RIM) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. A pioneer in the smartphone market, RIM is the manufacturer of BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet and the developer of the BlackBerry® solution. RIM has become a truly global company with approximately 625 carriers and distribution partners offering BlackBerry products and services in over 175 countries around the world. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, text messaging (SMS and MMS), Instant Messaging, Internet and company applications. Developers are one of RIM’s most important partners. The BlackBerry® platform gives developers more opportunities for success, by providing differentiation with our enhanced services and increased integration. It is a platform with a vision for the future that drives global growth and profitability. The BlackBerry platform has become one of the most profitable platforms for mobile developers with nearly 5 million downloads per day from BlackBerry App World™. The company has over 70 million global BlackBerry subscribers and has shipped more than 165 million smartphones worldwide.
SILVER SPONSOR
InMobi
InMobi is the world’s largest independent mobile advertising network. With offices on four continents we provide advertisers, publishers and developers with a uniquely global solution for advertising. Our network is growing and now delivers the unprecedented ability to reach 314 million consumers, in over 165 countries, through more than 36 billion mobile ad impressions monthly. InMobi was recently selected as the 2011 AlwaysOn Top 100 Mobile Companies in Silicon Valley.
InMobi is venture-backed by investors including: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. The company has offices in London, San Francisco, Bangalore, Tokyo, Nairobi and Singapore.
Please visit www.InMobi.com. Twitter @InMobi.
TBWA
TBWA is one of the largest advertising and communications agency networks in the world -with more than US$1B in annual revenues, with over 40,000 staff in more than 100 countries – including an established presence in 13 countries across Africa. Long held to be one of the most creative agency networks in the world, over the last decade TBWA become a recognised “thought leader” in the rapidly evolving areas of Digital Platforms, Social Media and Strategic Brand Communications.
In an increasingly “Trans-Media” environment, whose landscape is becoming ever more cluttered with mundane brand and messages, the brave and passionate people of TBWA thrive on disrupting this status quo via innovative and creative ideas. We strive to ensure that the next is idea is better than the last, and it is this mentality of continual improvement which provides a richly rewarding environment for our people and beneficial outcomes for our clients.
LUNCH SPONSOR
Mobile Planet
Mobile Planet Ltd. (MPL) was founded in 2001 to create a range of customized mobile solutions that enable mobile networks and corporate clients entertain, interact, and transact via SMS, MMS and WAP with the growing mobile market in Africa.
Subscriber numbers in Africa continue to grow at a phenomenal rate; this spells great potential for the use of mobile technology to address Africa’s unique set of circumstances and challenges. MPL strives to develop products and services that enhance the quality of life of Africans in the fields of commerce, e-governance, agriculture and education.
Mobile Planet also embraces the importance of fun and as a result, part of MPL’s products and services consist of creating innovative ways to deliver entertainment direct to customers’ mobile phones through mobile games, info-tainment, chat services, quizzes, competitions, ring tones and logos. All these attributes are aptly incorporated in its tagline ‘for Fun, for Work, for Africa’.
A further testimony to MPL’s development came when Google Inc. become a minority shareholder in the company in 2008. This has opened doors for MPL’s push into the rest of Africa and has resulted in it connecting to 26 mobile networks in 15 different countries around the world.
Safaricom
Safaricom is one of the leading integrated communications companies in Africa with over 17 million subscribers. The company reported Sh18.36 billion ($216 million) pretax profit for the financial year ending March 31st 2011. Safaricom provides a comprehensive range of services under one roof: mobile and fixed voice and data services on a variety of platforms.
Safaricom has made heavy investments in broadband capacity giving us a foothold in undersea cable, satellite, metro and trunk cable connectivity.
It also has the widest 3G network and the most expansive WIMAX presence in Kenya. The result of this has been that over 92% of Kenyans who use the Internet regularly, access the Internet through the Safaricom network/Infrastructure.
Safaricom also pioneered commercial mobile money transfer globally through M-PESA, the most successful such service anywhere in the world. And thanks to the early April 2011 partnership with Western Union, M-PESA’s 14.2 million subscribers can now receive international money transfers from 45 countries and territories worldwide, making the partnership the largest deal of its kind in the world. M-PESA customers have over 28,000 points of contact to transact from.
Safaricom is listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and trades on the telecommunications and technology segment. http://www.safaricom.co.ke/
RECEPTION SPONSOR
Spinlet
Spinlet is a company focused on meeting the needs of music lovers allowing them to buy, listen, share, and manage music all within a user friendly mobile platform.
Spinlet’s launch means a paradigm shift in music distribution and the fight against piracy in one of the world’s emerging markets. We are dedicated to working against piracy with structured deals in the artists favor and bringing in marketing support to create revenue and promotion of artists’ music internationally.
Spinlet is supported on the most popular smart phones including Android, BlackBerry and Symbian and is available for free download via the Android Market, Blackberry Store, and Symbian Platform.
Users of Spinlet can remotely store, manage and listen to music from anywhere using their mobile device. Spinlet promotes social sharing with an interface that allows users to create accounts, make playlists and share their favorite titles using social networking sites, such as Facebook with their friends.
Spinlet also allows artists to add music to its service through the self-guided artist upload tool which makes it possible for independent artists and music rights holder to upload their music for sale on the Spinlet.
TEA & COFEE BREAK SPONSOR
Umuntu Media
Umuntu Media started as a dream, a dream about connections, people and information. A dream to fill the gap and change the way Africa will communicate, transact and keep informed online. Umuntu Media is an idea by Johan Nel and funded and supported by eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund). Umuntu Media aims to become the largest internet portals across Africa. Currently two portals are live: iNamibia: http://www.inamibia.co.na and iZambia: http://www.izambia.co.zm. An additional nine countries and a new mobile platform called Mimiboard will launch in the next few months.
“Quality local content is still a gap in the market in Africa. It is a massive challenge, but we have the vision, we have the team and we have the guts to make this happen”
Brian Hirman of eVA Fund
WIFI SPONSOR
ForgetMeNot Africa
ForgetMeNot Africa is the African division of Hong Kong Based specialised communications company, ForgetMeNot Software.
ForgetMeNot’s mission is to bring all types of internet communications to basic handsets via SMS, USSD and low speed data. ForgetMeNot’s Optimiser Platform connects to Mobile Networks to provide all their subscribers with a range of 2-way applications such as email, Instant Messaging, Social Networking and a number of other applications designed to run on the platform. New applications can be created by local developers using the Optimiser Platform Open API which is currently being deployed.
Optimiser Platform Applications use novel, patented number sharing technology to give users a simple, intuitive interface to sophisticated applications which reside in the cloud. This gives networks a new stream of revenue and increases their attractiveness to subscribers, reducing churn.
MOBI SITE SPONSOR
Vidamo
Vidamo Group works across digital platforms to fulfil a global demand for technology-based marketing and enterprise services. With offices in Norway, South Africa, UK, India and Brazil Vidamo maintains a global reach with local presence.
Awarded the Red Herring Top 100 most innovative companies globally in 2010, Vidamo has created a tool set of digital services aimed at the dynamic relationships between consumers and their mobile devices.
Prize winning technology and a team holding over 15 years’ experience in the mobile technology and advertising positions Vidamo perfectly to build brands and transform enterprises to leverage engaging, profitable digital services across all mobile and web platforms.
Vidamo is privately held with customers include airlines, banks, brands and retailers around the world.
SMS meeting to 39855, followed by your name & company, to schedule a meeting with us.
EXHIBITOR
Mocality
Mocality.com is Africa’s largest business directory, vying to become the continents largest business platform.
With its business directory as its flagship product, Mocality.co.ke is currently operational in both Kenya and Nigeria. The Kenyan arm already hosts information of over 200,000 businesses, whilst the Nigerian branch, though more recent, has already amassed over 100,000 businesses to its directory.
Mocality.com has began introducing other business friendly products, like the deals website ‘deals.mocality.co.ke’ which has quickly become the leading deals provider in the country, in just under 6 months.
SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS
AkiraChix
In a continent where women form a majority of the population and half of the workforce, it is an anomaly that the percentage of women working in technology is less than 15%. Technology is one of the key factors driving Africa’s projected economic rise. As such, there is enormous potential for maximizing the growth of technology through increasing the number and quality of women in technology.
AkiraChix aims to inspire and develop a successful force of women in Technology that will change Africa’s future. We plan to do this through our key programs areas of networking, mentorship and training.
www.akirachix.com
Coders4Africa
Coders4Africa is an independent nonprofit organization that provides training, education and development infrastructure, logistics and intellectual support to IT professionals in Africa. Our vision is to create and support a Pan-African community of competent, internationally certified IT professionals focused on developing the IT tools for African Agriculture, Business, Education, Health Care, Government and general Social needs. The main strategy is to leverage the rapid development and evolution of the wireless communications and Internet access platform in Africa to educate, certify and continue to support a 1000+ cadre of IT professionals.
*iHub_
Nairobi’s Innovation Hub for the technology community – is an open space for the technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers in the area. This space is a tech community facility with a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile phone programmers, designers and researchers. It is part open community workspace (co-working), part vector for investors and VCs and part incubator. Visit http://ihub.co.ke for more information.
m:lab
m:lab East Africa is a consortium of four organizations aiming to be a leader in identifying, nurturing and helping to build sustainable enterprises in the knowledge economy. Full details can be found at http://mlab.co.ke
Mobile Monday Dar es Salaam
Please visit http://mobilemonday.co.tz for chapter information.
Mobile Monday Kampala
Mobile Monday Kampala is a community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets.
MoMoKla was formed on 20th January 2010 by a group of 40 founding members consisting of professionals in Uganda’s telecommunication, academia, media and ICT sectors. The chapter was launched officially on March 8, 2010 (Women’s Day) at the Speke Resort Munyonyo, on the eve of, and in conjunction with, the Innovation Africa Digital Summit, the second MoMo African chapter to be launched, after South Africa.
Mobile Monday Kampala has the following objectives:
- To encourage innovation within the mobile sector
- To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between local and foreign
- To help local companies effectively participate in international initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices
- To present innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile marketplace
- To build networks between people, companies and finance
- To bridge the gap between local and global mobile industries
- To share the knowledge of Mobile Industry Experts
More info at www.momokla.ug
Mobile Monday Kenya
The Mobile Monday Kenya chapter (MOMOKE) started in early 2011 at a colorful launch presided over by the Finnish ambassador and attended by a wide array of guests. We held our first meeting at the iHub on 19th April, and though the attendance was small, it attracted the techie community that had started to make the iHub their home and place of business. Our objective was simple: to encourage conversation and networking amongst the developer community. It was not uncommon to see us huddled in a group of 20 surrounding a white board talking about M-Pesa, MXit’s move into Kenya; if it was interesting and involved technology we talked about it. This uncut approach is what made as unique.
Over time the meetups, which were held once a month, began gathering traction as more and more developers and business people began attending. The launch of the iHub space cemented our meetups as a key event in the iHub calendar. Our attendance grew to 150-200 attendees, and during the 10th anniversary of Mobile Monday held in Helsinki from September 27th-29th, the Kenya chapter was officially handed to the lead, John Wesonga, as the founders pin was bestowed upon him. This marked a major milestone of the chapter and ushered in corporate support with the likes of Virtual City and Nokia coming on board.
Since then, Mobile Monday Kenya has held over 20 events with more than 4000 participants, with half a dozen companies presenting and more than 40 presentations from individuals being contributed. None of this could have happened without the dedicated team of volunteers plus all the people out there who tweet our events and spread the word.
We believe a stronger developer community ensures a healthy ecosystem for current and future techpreneurs, and we will do our best to ensure that Mobile Monday Kenya achieves that vision.
VC4Africa
VC4Africa.com believes that entrepreneurship should be the main driver in Africa’s economic growth, in particular the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that provide much of Africa’s employment, income and hope for a better future.
SMEs contribute around two thirds of national income and provide the foundation for a stable middle class in many African countries. They help form strong communities and are a powerful force for poverty reduction. SMEs play a significant role in building economic stability and sustainability for the future.
It’s our belief that the most meaningful impact will still come from grassroots entrepreneurship and local efforts. It is important to support this bottom-up approach of citizens working to tackle local challenges and build on the idea that any person anywhere in the world might have the skills, knowledge and resources needed to make a difference.
For more information visit: www.vc4africa.com
Twitter: @VC4Africa
RECRUITMENT PARTNER
BRIGHTER MONDAY
BrighterMonday.com is the No. 1 jobsite in East Africa. We’re present in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
BrighterMonday.com reaches over 1 million professionals every month with targeted fresh Job Adverts. It is probably the most effective way of reaching the passive or active job-seeking professionals in the region. Over 70% of our subscribers are in employment and hence are typically well qualified. Furthermore, we employ unique technology to reach the right candidates, an example of this being our personalised Job Alerts – these are multimedia emails sent to candidates listing only the roles that match their interests and qualifications.
Start posting your Job Ads with us today and your business will immediately begin benefitting from the lowered cost of reaching the best qualified candidates. Visit us at www.BrighterMonday.com or at m.BrighterMonday.com from your mobile.
BROADCAST PARTNERS
CAPITAL FM
Please visit http://www.capitalfm.co.ke for full details.
KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS
A24 Media
A24 Media is the first true Pan-African multi-platform content aggregator and program producer.
We boast a partnership with the international agency Reuters in producing the renowned newsmagazine AFRICA JOURNAL, as well as our own shows.
We have two websites. www.a24media.com showcases content from around Africa and other parts of the globe. www.a24media.com/whatsyourstory is a social media website linking Africans in showing and telling their shared concerns for this great continent. A24 Media is proud to unveil our three mobile phone products, “KNOWING AFRICA”, “SEEING AFRICA” and “WHAT’S YOUR STORY”, that allow consumers to access our quality content in the palms of their hands.
With our archive containing 10,000 hours of video and 3.5 million photos, and a bank of over 2000 feature stories growing weekly, A24 Media provides Africans with more information and pictures of themselves and their land than anyone in the world.
MEDIA PARTNERS
Afrinnovator
Afrinnovator is an African technology blog focusing on emerging market innovation in technology in Africa. The blog highlights African tech startups, news and features behind how Africa is reinventing itself through web and mobile innovation. Our mantra is simple: put Africa on the map of digital citizens across the world.
http://afrinnovator.com
Apps Africa
News, views and events for apps and all things mobile in Africa. Visit http://www.appsafrica.com
Developing Telecoms
DevelopingTelecoms is the on-line information portal for communications in developing and emerging markets. Providing daily news updates, reviews and analysis of mobile and fixed-wire markets, technology and products DevelopingTelecoms is the leading information source for communications professionals focused on emerging markets. And with 500,000 hits per month DevelopingTelecoms is a powerful communications channel for businesses wanting to advertise.
Visit www.developingtelecoms.com now and keep up-to-date with ICT in emerging markets. Follow us on Twitter, RSS and sign-up for our free e-newsletter.
Wild Fusion
Wild Fusion is an online media company specialising in online media sales and other digital marketing offering on internet and mobile. They make up a team of exceptional group of online media experts with a wide spectrum of expertise, which enables them to excel in the competitive technology space while focusing on the needs of small to medium scale business organizations.
