Mobile
Web in Africa 2014
Mobile
Web in Africa held an interesting conference at the South Point Towers,
Randlords in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. “Mobile Web in Africa” an interesting
topic indeed. I’m sure a lot of folks have heard of the word mobile many times
in their lives but they really don’t know what it is or what it really does,
besides the fact that obviously we have mobile phones in our bags, rather hands
and everywhere we go.
Mobile
refers to being able to move, not just move but move freely and easily of course and yes relating to mobile phones, handheld computers,
handheld wireless device that allows users to make calls and send texts and so forth. So
at the conference it was more of mobile money, solution idea based and latest
technologies.
At
the conference there were great speakers lined up like the likes of Mike
Sharman; founder of Retroviral, Sarag Arora; Principle consultant at KPMG South
Africa, Walter Pike; founder at Pike and other great speakers. They emphasized
on the importance of mobile money in Africa (Mobile money refers to payment
services operated under financial regulation and performed from or via mobile
phones or the internet) and how it has transformed Africa and the world as a
whole and how the future looks like for mobile money.
It
turned out that mobile money will become part of core economic infrastructure
and money mobile operators and it will add features like ATM access mainstreams.
That’s why mobile apps are the perfect platform to make payments and banking on
your smart phones and tablets is the right way to go because it is convenient,
safe and simple.
Standard
Bank, Intel, Terragon group and JunkMail and other supporting organizations
were part of the Mobile Web in Africa, in which they promoted creating an
ecosystem, building new engagement platforms, new solutions across the
customer’s life cycle, putting customers first and introducing the latest
technologies like the AR. The conference was educating and innovating with the
accurate and credible information that was shared by great speakers.
Article by +Molly Dimpho
TRAVEL & SOCIAL MEDIA
AT THE E-TAS 2014
Damian Cook; CEO of
E-Tourism Frontiers
The
first E-Tourism Africa Summit at the great Turbine Hall venue in Newtown,
Johannesburg. Damian Cook; CEO of
E-Tourism Frontiers, the company which organized the summit. E-Tourism
Frontiers really knew what they were doing when they held their summit at
Turbine Halls, with South African industrial architecture and breathtaking
décor.
This
summit focused on how online travel is changing and adapting and how personal
touch is becoming a key focus. This included the importance of social media
like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google, on how they play major roles to
travelers and the audience in general. Not only that but ensuring that the
audience is receiving the most authentic and correct information online since
proliferation of information has taken the internet by storm. Most importantly
it was about travel, technology and how travel trade can benefit from it.
Speakers
like Chad Shiver, Mike Sharman, Sonal Patel, Spencer Spellman and Vusi
Thembekwayo shared their experiences and great ideas to the delegates at the
summit. Damian Cook emphasized on how important it is to take your brand and
customers into consideration because at the end of the day it’s about helping
your brand connect through conversation that inspire travel and tourism.
It
was a tremendous event where delegates were stimulating business growth and
sharing their experiences about travel, social networks and latest technologies.
Article by +Molly Dimpho
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