At Mobile Web in Africa 2009, Mobile Web in Africa 2010, Mobile Web East Africa 2010 and Mobile Web West Africa 2011 we have secured the support of the organisations who are leading the evolution of the ecosystem.

The partnerships we have forged have allowed sponsors, supporters and partners to benefit from being associated with Africa’s leading mobile focused event and have considerably boosted the reputation of the events into a series of conferences which are held in extremely high regard.

For Mobile Web in Africa 2011 we would encourage any organisation to get in touch with us to discuss the benefits and practicalities of formally supporting Africa’s leading mobile focused event.

We want to work with you to make this event the most successful Mobile Web Africa conference yet.

There are 4 categories of partners at our events:

If you are interested in partnering with all amber at the most progressive and innovative mobile focused event in Africa please email info@allamber.co.uk.

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.

AdVine

AdVine is South Africa’s leading premium mobile advertising sales agency, and part of the global 4th Screen Mobile Advertising Network. We manage the advertising sales on behalf of mobile publishers whilst working closely with the media buying agencies to conceptualize effective and innovative mobile campaigns across our publisher network.
Our campaigns range from highly targeted and performance driven, through to engaging rich-media ad placements on the most exciting and ubiquitous mobile publishing sites and applications in Africa.
AdVine’s unique position provides brands and agencies a far more rich mobile user-experiences across our premium network, which in turn, translates into stronger click-through rates and subsequently higher conversions, based not only on how engaging the creative elements are, but also on how relevant the mobile advertising is to the publishers audience.

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.

KLA

Since 1991 KLA has been pioneering cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative market research in Africa, driving significant initiatives on behalf of leading local and international Clients.  We feature a diverse team of research professionals: people’s people, numbers people, brand and communications people, lawyers and educators, etc.  We encourage critical and challenging thinking, and invite participation and ideas across the organisation.  As a result, KLA is known to offer solutions that are rigorous, analytical and clearly directional.
As part of our quest to be at the forefront of new approaches in research we embraced online methodologies in 2008, and are now turning our attention to the application of mobile web technology to bringing unprecedented value and efficiency to qualitative and quantitative research across the continent.
Our headquarters are in Johannesburg, South Africa from where we have capacity to run insight-driven, strategic research projects in over 80% of Africa’s dynamic emerging markets. www.kla.co.za

Mi-Fone

Mi-Fone certainly owns the reputation of being one of Africa’s fastest growing mobile device brands. In only three years, over 1 million handsets have been distributed, generating in excess of $15 million dollars in revenue.

The organization has developed strategic partnerships with twelve countries, securing distributors and GSM carriers to ensure country wide distribution and cost efficiencies are passed on to the end consumer. Mi-Fone handsets can be purchased from approved distributors and operator channels in countries such as Senegal, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania and Mi-Fone South Africa is now a reality.

Mi-Fone’s commitment, determination and raw passion is proving successful in the time old David versus Goliath battle. As Africa’s first mobile devices brand, we develop and tailor-make communication solutions for Africa.

With only three short years in business and forecasts smashed, Mi-Fone promises to further take the African market by storm with partnerships with some of the Continents most admired consumer brands.

Prezence Digital

Prezence Digital is one of Africa’s most prominent mobile and online digital agencies, specialising in taming the complex world of digital technology and enabling brands to interactively reach out and engage with their target audiences across multiple touch-points in Africa and around the world. With the most innovative technology at its disposal, as well as award winning design and user experience expertise, Prezence Digital creates comprehensive and immersive experiences across all aspects of the mobile and desktop web, mobile applications as well as interactive touch screen installations that are at once highly functional, intuitive, strategically-focused, technically superior, beautifully-designed and — most importantly — easy to use and enjoy. The Prezence Digital teams provide clients with full end to end agency services for mobile and online including campaign strategy, planning and buying, social strategy, integration and management as well as comprehensive launch and upgrade planning. For more information on Prezence Digital visit www.prezence.co.za via your mobile or PC.

Mantaray

Mantaray is a usability and user experience design agency, an affiliate member of the UXalliance for Africa. We offer a full range of UX services:

• Customer objectives and profiling for product strategies
• Competitor and international usability benchmark research
• User experience and interaction design specifications

By understanding the customer we can design digital experiences that align to your customer’s expectation. Experiences happen, whether you plan for it or not. By understanding how your customer behaves in the digital space, you can create an experience that the customer will enjoy and engage with.
www.mantaray.co.za

Clickatell

Clickatell has been established for more than a decade and is the largest Online SMS mobile messaging gateway covering 962 networks in 224 countries and territories, with the potential to reach 5 billion mobile phone users.
We deliver carrier-grade mobile messaging solutions that have been embraced by more than 13,000 enterprise, government, medium and small business customers and application developers. Our APIs are fast, simple and reliable, and built in such a way that they integrate easily with any system.
As the acknowledged leader in SMS delivery, Clickatell enables the delivery of messages to any person anywhere in the world.

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 VIDAMO to 39855 followed by your name & company, and we will be in contact.

Trans Digita Media

Trans Digital Media specialises in providing live video & audio streaming for web and mobile, digital video content production and consumer generated media. Our aim is to build a next generation digital content service that is user friendly, socially active and delivers to multiple platforms. Trans Digital Media ensures your content is able to be produced anywhere and delivered everywhere. We have partnered with leading African and International technologies to deliver a single solution.

TDM’s streaming technologies utilise African continent servers and infrastructure to ensure an optimal streaming experience for the consumer.

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

Darest

Darest South Africa is a fast-growing provider of IT infrastructure and mobile business solutions to medium and large organisations in Africa, including many of the JSE’s top 100 companies. Darest partners with its clients to design, implement, manage and maintain ICT infrastructures that enable them to compete more effectively and cost-efficiently.
Darest services and solutions ensure that its clients are able to drive the maximum value and performance from their technology investments. As a provider of managed services for your mobile and messaging environments, Darest can take away your IT support headaches so that you can focus on growing your business.
Darest have partnerships with many of the world’s leading IT vendors. Darest is a BlackBerry Alliance Partner and the official BlackBerry Training partner for South Africa.
Darest South Africa was founded in 2007 as part of the Swiss-based IT solutions Darest Group.
http://darest.co.za

Korwe

Korwe’s products help you move your services from the web to mobile. We aim to provide your users with just the right information they require. We reduce your cost and risk by providing a stable platform, while allowing you to add more users and functionality with no drama. We support a variety of front-end technologies and are able to integrate with back-end technologies; even remote, unreliable and slow services. The ability to manage your services is built in. The usability of the services is enhanced through personalization and stability. www.korwe.com

BizCommunity

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.  www.bizcommunity.com

DMMA

The Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA), formerly the OPA, is an independent, voluntary, non-profit association focused on growing and sustaining a vibrant and profitable digital industry within South Africa.
The DMMA currently represents over 60 local online publishers and over 63 creative, media and digital agencies, between them accounting for more than 10 million local unique browsers and 330 million page impressions. Our aim is to provide our members with a platform via which they can engage, interact and address digital issues of common interest, thereby stimulating learning and commerce within the South African digital space.
The DMMA represents the South African digital industry to all sectors including the marketing community, the media, the South African government and the public. We also act as the body through which international players can enter the South African digital market. www.dmma.co.za for more information.

Mobile Marketing Association

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is a global group that 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: (1) Providing an industry forum to meet, discuss, plan and work co-operatively to resolve key industry issues (2) Bring together industry-wide, global and regional work groups that focus on industry initiatives (3) Providing representation for the mobile marketing industry to major legislative bodies worldwide (4) Fuelling peer to peer interaction through seminars, conferences and events. (5) Develop measurement metrics for ad delivery and consumer response (6) Develop open and compatible mobile marketing technical and creative standards (7) 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. http://mmaglobal.com/region/emea/south-africa”http://mmaglobal.com/region/emea/south-africa

Mobile Monday

Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and innovators fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. Mobile Monday 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 facilitate and create partnerships.
• To contribute to the education of the broader public through its publications, online presence and media partnerships.

Mobile Monday is organized by a group of dedicated volunteers from around the country. Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, Mobile Monday has grown into the world’s leading mobile community.

The Silicon Cape Initiative

The Silicon Cape Initiative is a non-profit, community owned & driven movement for entrepreneurs, geeks, venture capitalists, angel investors, marketers and other professionals in the IT industry.
It is a Social Enterprise aimed at encouraging IT and Technology entrepreneurship in the Western Cape. The aim is to brand the greater Cape Town area as the “Silicon Valley of Africa”, or simply, as the “Silicon Cape”.
It was founded in October 2009 by Vinny Lingham and Justin Stanford, who brought various entrepreneurs, investors and service providers in the industry together – including Dr Mphela Ramphela, Johan Rupert and Helen Zille. They formed an online community on www.siliconcape.com (which currently has over 4,500 members) where members can network, join forum discussions and collaborate on ideas.

VC4Africa

VC4Africa believes that entrepreneurship should be the main driver in Africa’s economic growth, in particular the 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. As Africa enters the new millennium it faces a challenge to provide better economic opportunities for citizens through sustained growth and alleviating the poverty that has long plagued the continent. 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: http://vc4africa.biz

A24Media

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 “WHATS 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.

Balancing Act

Based in London, Balancing Act combines online publishing with consultancy work. With 10,000 readers across the continent and outside, the English and French speaking newsletters have already become a “must read” among decision-makers in the fast growing telecommunications and ICT sectors. Through its pay-for reports, Balancing Act has built a catalogue of publications that provides in-depth knowledge on the state of the telecommunications and Internet markets, both sectorally and on a country-by-country basis in Africa. 
Balancing Act also offers industry-focused consultancy services for public and private sector clients.
For further information visit our website at www.balancingact-africa.com

Memeburn

Memeburn tracks tech culture, innovation and business in South Africa and the emerging market sector worldwide. 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. http://memeburn.com

Africa Telecoms

Africa Telecoms is the first fully integrated Africa Telecoms publication and website aimed at carriers, service providers, network operators, ministers and regulators. This monthly magazine is the industry-leading guide providing the very latest telecoms news, expert analysis, key issues and trends affecting the telecoms industry across the African continent. www.africatelecomsonline.co.za

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

DevelopingTelecoms

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.

ITNewsAfrica

ITNewsAfrica.com is Africa’s premier ICT News and Information website.
We serve a niche audience within the Information Technology sector and have established ourselves as the must-visit destination for top IT and Telecom professionals, vendors, solution providers, IT Managers, CIOs and CEOs of African enterprises.
ITNewsAfrica.com, through its online presence, conferences, press offices and editorial content, informs ICT (Information & Communication Technology) professionals about the latest developments in the industry and encourages interaction among business people. Our mission is to promote the abundant opportunities for Africans in the ICT sector and to encourage investment by government agencies and the private sector.
We have a solid track record of maximizing advertiser ROI and our editorial team is made up of a select network of passionate content contributors & journalists stationed around the African continent. www.ITNewsAfrica.com

TechCentral

TechCentral is the leading quality news and information resource for people involved in South Africa’s fast-growing information and communications technology industry and those interested in the fast-changing world of information technology. We provide quality news, reviews and comment relevant to our quickly expanding audience. And we do it first.
HYPERLINK “http://www.techcentral.co.za” www.techcentral.co.zawww.techcentral.co.za

TechLoy

TechLoy is a technology news and analysis site at the intersection of business, innovation, entertainment and web culture with an incisive coverage of West African tech markets. TechLoy’s audience includes startup founders and tech influencers; social media and mobile enthusiasts; PR & marketing agencies; web designers and developers; corporates and early adopters; VCs and entrepreneurs; journalists and bloggers. http://techloy.com

The New Age

The New Age newspaper is a national daily newspaper, owned and operated by TNA Media (Pty) Ltd. TNA Media was established in June 2010.
The New Age covers news from all nine provinces, along with national events, Op-Ed columns, politics, Africa and international news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology. It is affordable (R3.50), relevant, easy to read and to the point.
Our website is http://www.thenewage.co.za and mobile site is http://www.thenewage.co.za/mobi/
The New Age comes in 24-32 full colour pages printed in the International broadsheet format. The paper is printed in three different locations and distributed by South Africa’s leading distributor, reaching all corners of the country.
Our goal is to focus on the positive side of news, and we aim for constructive criticism of our leaders in our newspaper.
Our vision is to connect and inform communities across a united South Africa.