AppsAfrica Awards Finalists Announced

We talked about the AppsAfrica awards a few months ago. The competition is meant to showcase the most exciting innovations on the African continent in as many as 14 different categories. The finalists for the competition have been announced and the award will be handed out on the eve of AfricaCom 2018 (12, November) in Cape Town.

Here are the finalists who have been shortlisted;

AgriTech

• Aerobotics(South Africa),
• Farmcrowdy for Farmcrowdy App (Nigeria),
• Kitovu (Nigeria),
• TROTRO Tractor (Ghana) and;
• Wefarm(Kenya)            

Blockchain Award

• Custos Media Technologies for Custos(South Africa),
• Fintech Ltd for Interstellar Decentralized Wallet and Exchange(Cameroon),
• Savannah Lab for GoomCash(Mauritania) and;
• SovTech for Project UBU(South Africa)

Best African App

• Farmcrowdy for Farmcrowdy App(Nigeria),
• Fedgroup for Impact Farming(South Africa),
• Inzone Adlink for Hey Jude App(South Africa),
• biNu Africa for Moya Messenger(South Africa) and;
• SafeBoda(Uganda)

Changing Africa Award

• Medixus(Kenya),
• Orange for Get My App(DRC),
• RippleNami(Kenya),
• Flutterwave(Nigeria) and;
• Vanu, Inc(Rwanda/Zambia)

Disruptive Innovation

• BACE Group(Ghana),
• Fedgroup for Impact Farming (South Africa),
• minoHealth (Ghana),
• NALA for NALA App(Tanzania) and;
• Zuoix for ZOOMED(Cameroon)

EdTech

• BeBlocky(Ethiopia),
• Ever Africa for Xander Educational Apps(South Africa),
• Kytabu(Kenya),
• Snapplify(South Africa) and;
• WeThinkCode_(South Africa)

Enterprise Solution

• Clickatell for WhatsApp Chat Banking(South Africa),
• Digemy for Digemy Knowledge Partner (South Africa),
• Kasi Eats (South Africa),
• Kirusa for Kirusa Connect (Ghana) and;
• Kobo360(Nigeria)

FinTech

• Clickatell for WhatsApp Chat Banking(South Africa),
• Flutterwave (Nigeria),
• NALA for NALA App (Tanzania),
• OKO Finance(Mali) and;
• Paylater(Nigeria)

HealthTech

• Baobab Circle for Afya Pap(Kenya),
• Flare for Flare: There in a heartbeat(Kenya),
• MOBicure for myPaddi (Nigeria),
• Vodacom for Vodacom Mum and Baby (South Africa) and;
• WellaHealth(Nigeria)

IoT

• CypressV for Smart Switch(Nigeria),
• Hope Tech Plus for The Sixth Sense (Kenya),
• Hydrologistics Africa(Kenya),
• Rydwith(South Africa) and;
• Visiosoft(South Africa)

mCommerce

• BAYQI (Angola),
• Denkim Insurance(Kenya),
• Orange for Orange Data Management Program(Egypt),
• Travelstart for Flapp(South Africa) and;
• WayaWaya for WayaWaya Social Payments(Kenya)

Mobility & Transport

• Flx(South Africa),
• LÜLA(South Africa),
• UGABUS Inc(Uganda),
• Yego Innovision(Rwanda) and;
• Zuoix for ZOOMED(Cameroon)

Media & Entertainment

• OGLE Digital Media for OGLE Content Download Hotspots(South Africa),
• Publiseer (Nigeria),
• Qene Technologies for Kukulu Game(Ethiopia),
• Taza PLC for EventsEthiopia(Ethiopia) and,
• Vodacom for Vodacom Music! (South Africa)

Social Impact

• All-Farmers-Online(Nigeria),
• Farmcrowdy for Farmcrowdy App(Nigeria),
• MOBicure for myPaddi (Nigeria),
• ScholarX Inc. for ScholarX(Nigeria) and;
• WeThinkCode_(South Africa)

The winners will be announced on AppsAfrica Awards Twitter and Facebook pages on the 12^th of November…

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