MWA2010 Silver Sponsors:
Opera Software ASA has redefined web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices. Opera’s cross-platform web-browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the world.
The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. Learn more about Opera at http://www.opera.com/.
InMobi is the world’s largest independent global mobile advertising network.
InMobi provides advertisers, developers, and publishers with a uniquely global mobile advertising solution. InMobi, who doubled its network size quarter-over-quarter, delivers the unprecedented ability to reach 179 million consumers in over 100 countries through over 14 billion mobile ad impressions monthly.
InMobi is a venture-backed with marquee investors including: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. The company has offices in London, San Francisco, Bangalore, Tokyo, Mumbai and Singapore. To learn more, please visit: www.inmobi.com
MWA2010 Mobi Site Sponsor:
Fontera was started in London in 2003 to deliver cutting edge mobile marketing systems and applications. We specialise in mobile marketing making use of our proprietary software. Our campaign management systems and other tools are designed and built by our product team in consultation with market leaders in each industry in order to build the best solution for that segment. All of our software is built from scratch by our expert team, enabling us to keep on the cutting edge of mobile development with systems that incorporate SMS, MMS, WAP, social media and next generation mobile technology.
MWA2010 WiFi Sponsor:
AlwaysOn is South Africa’s largest Wi-Fi HotSpot provider, with in excess of 800 hotspots countrywide including exclusive access to all airports and most hotels. The access is on average twice the speed of 3G and half the price. Access is essential for any business traveller. Disclosure: AlwaysOn is a subsidiary of Internet Solutions: www.alwayson.co.za
MWA2010 Exhibitor:
CellSmart is a full service mobile marketing agency, specialising in everything the mobile device has to offer marketers for mobile advertising and marketing. Through our expertise in everything mobile, and end-to-end offering, from mobile marketing products and services, to mobile technology platforms, we are able to provide the best in creative mobile marketing by conceptualising, managing, developing and implementing mobile campaigns and strategies.
Delivering world class digital marketing requires us to be at the bleeding edge of technology development and mobile marketing services, and remaining there requires us to push the boundaries all the time, in marketing, technology, and customer services. Culminating in a blend that is uniquely CellSmart, our mobile products and services, creativity, innovation and technological superiority ensures that we continue to deliver exceptional results to our clients, from every campaign.
MWA2010 Supporting Organisation:
The World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation) is a Swiss Charity. It has been announced in September 2008, and formally incorporated in 2009. Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web Foundation has three programs focusing on three specific challenges:
Web in Society Program: To address the content gap, ensuring that people can access usable and useful content in their own language, and in a format they can use.
Web Standard Program: To ensure that the Web works for all and that current and future Web technologies address specific challenges and requirements of people not yet connected.
Web Research Program: To address the knowledge gap, and to ensure that we understand how the Web works and evolve, and what are the new ideas to explore and the new threat to fight.
Web Foundation Web Site: http://www.webfoundation.org
Web Foundation 2 pages executive summary:
http://www.webfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/WebFoundation-ExecSumm.pdf
In over 100 mobile hotspots around globe, Mobile Monday puts on events every month that bring together industry influencers from amongst its roughly 45 thousand members to set trends, debate developments, foster cooperation and cross-boarder business development, and to profoundly network with peers locally and globally.
How did Mobile Monday begin?
MoMo began almost by accident in Finland, when a well known Finnish visionary invited more than fifty mobile innovators to an Irish pub for an informal get-together. The only suitable time was a Monday evening. After meeting many new faces and discussing the latest in mobility, the group decided to continue meeting on the first Monday of each month – and Mobile Monday was born. Tokyo and Silicon Valley were the first Mobile Monday groups to be established outside Finland in the autumn of with the most successful launches in Beijing, Hong Kong, Boston, Barcelona, Chicago, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Brussels, St. Petersburg, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver, Sydney, Toronto, and Bangkok.
Mobile Monday has the following global objectives:
• Foster an open independent innovation platform within the mobile sector
• Facilitate industry networking between small and large companies and individuals
• Bridge partnership exchanges between domestic and international organizations
• To present innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile marketplace
• Provide opportunities for local members to effectively participate in global initiatives
www.mobilemonday.net
Twitter handle – momo_ct
www.mmaglobal.com
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is a global group which strives to stimulate the growth of mobile marketing and its technologies. MMA members are diverse and include agencies, advertisers, hand held device manufacturers, carriers and operators, retailers, software providers and service providers as well as companies focused on marketing via mobile devices.
The MMA is dedicated to:
• Providing an industry forum to meet, discuss, plan and work co-operatively to resolve key industry issues
• Bring together industry-wide, global and regional work groups that focus on industry initiatives
• Providing representation for the mobile marketing industry to major legislative bodies worldwide
• Fuelling peer to peer interaction through seminars, conferences and events.
• Develop measurement metrics for ad delivery and consumer response
• Develop open and compatible mobile marketing technical and creative standards
• Serve as the key advocate on behalf of the mobile marketing industry
The MMA’s primary focus is on consumer protection and privacy, given the importance of consumer satisfaction in maintaining a sustainable industry and promoting growth. They therefore strive to align their members and industry stakeholders with consumer needs to ensure a positive mobile experience. The industry must monitor and enforce consumer protection and privacy to ensure the success and integrity of the mobile content business.
MWA2010 Principal Media Partner:
Bizcommunity.com, South Africa’s leading B2B website, focuses on the South Africa’s advertising, marketing, media, retail and associated sectors. We also cover the same sectors in Africa. Categories within each portal ensure we cover advertising, branding, design, marketing, and much, much more. Hence, we provide a tightly targeted range of categories and that means our clients’ advertisements, news, Press Offices (akin to mini websites), reach exactly the audience they want to reach. Our dedicated Africa portal, Medical and Retail portals, all have their own dedicated categories, carefully selected to focus on providing our more than 100,000 subscribers with the information they need whether they are doing business in and with Africa, in the medical, pharmaceutical or allied fields, or dedicated to the retail sector.
MWA2010 Principal Knowledge Partner:
Memeburn tracks tech culture, innovation and business in South Africa and the emerging market sector world-wide. The site is particularly focused on telling the world local start-up news and tech entrepreneurs’ stories from the emerging market sector. It also serves as a networking point for start-ups, entrepreneurs, VCs and other interested parties. Memeburn is unashamedly aimed at the tech-savvy elite and those who like to keep abreast, and are a part of, the latest online trends. It's a job resource for start-ups via memejobs @ memeburn.com/jobs
MWA2010 Media Partner:
It’s not surprising that when the first online news publication launched in South Africa, it was launched by the Mail & Guardian. Known for its hard hitting breaking stories and the challenging position it has taken on issues from apartheid to corruption, the launch of M&G Online took the brand to a new level.
M&G Online is an innovator in the field of social media. Combining the quality journalism that is synonymous with M&G brand with cutting edge technology makes M&G Online a brand you can talk to.
The underlying brand values of integrity, truth and courage – underpinned by good journalism – are as apparent on M&G Online as they are in the print version.
MWA2010 Media Partner:
Launched in March 1998, Gadget was South Africa's first online magazine on the consumer technology, office hi-tech and general gadgetry that makes our lives both easier and more complicated. It has reviewed anything from smart pens to smart cars, from hi-tech Laundromats to low-tech wind-up radios.
We understand that the web user wants to both have fun with technology and get fast access to information about that technology. Software and hardware reviews are divided into serious and fun products – the most popular sections of Gadget – along with coverage of Mobile technology, sports technology, hi-tech issues and the World Wide Web.
MWA2010 Event Blog:
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Much of last year’s success was dependant on the fantastic support that all amber received from its event partners. The Grid, Nokia, Samsung, Internet Solutions, the World Wide Web Foundation, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, Biz Community, Brandsh, The Grameen Foundation et al all entered into mutually beneficial partnerships that made the 2009 event what it was.
Again all amber is calling out to all the key organisations in the ecosystem to formally get involved so that we can work together in making Mobile Web in Africa 2010 a massive success.
Whatever your perspective, your intentions, your budget please do get in touch with us so that we can have a conversation regarding how we can work together to make this year’s event even more successful. In the end you haven't got a great deal to lose from just sending an email to info@allamber.co.uk and it could be the start of a wonderful partnership...
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