Entries now open for AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2017

Think you are one of Africa’s best mobile and tech ventures? Submissions for the AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2017 are now open and will close on 10 September.

The awards are held by AppsAfrica.com, a news portal and advisory service, in collaboration with Mobile Monday South Africa and Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF).

To qualify, applicants must have launched services in at least one African country.

Applicants can apply for awards under any one of 12 categories, namely: best disruptive innovation, best social and messaging, best African app, enterprise solutions, news and entertainment, education, fintech, social impact, brand campaign, mobile commerce, changing Africa and the outstanding industry.

The AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2017 winners will get chance to attend London tech summit

Award winners will get to exhibit at next year’s Africa Tech Summit in London, a year’s membership of the MEF and tickets to the MEF Connects at the Mobile World Congress 2018 in addition to media exposure around the world.

Finalists will attend the awards event in Cape Town on 6 November. This will mark the third consecutive year that the awards are being held.

Last year’s winners included Domestly, Vula Mobile, Mobi Hunter for the disruptive innovation award, social messaging award and brand on mobile award respectively.

Apply here to the competition.

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