{"id":14398,"date":"2017-08-23T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T10:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=14398"},"modified":"2017-08-23T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T10:24:39","slug":"the-africacom-awards-entry-is-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2017\/08\/23\/the-africacom-awards-entry-is-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The AfricaCom Awards \u2013 entry is now open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AfricaCom Awards celebrate the achievements of the best companies, solutions, products and personalities improving connectivity and driving Africa through the Fourth Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>In line with all the exciting new focus areas at AfricaCom this year, you\u2019ll see a revitalised list of categories for 2017 to celebrate the best and brightest across TMT in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>2017 categories include: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tBest Network Improvement<br \/>\n\u2022\tDelivering Excellence in Customer Experience<br \/>\n\u2022\tBest Network Function Virtualisation solution<br \/>\n\u2022\tChanging Lives Award<br \/>\n\u2022\tMost Innovative LTE Service \/ Application Deployment<br \/>\n\u2022\tBest Innovation in Broadcast \u2013 Broadband Convergence<br \/>\n\u2022\tMost Innovative Service &#8216;The Business of Tomorrow&#8217;<br \/>\n\u2022\tOutstanding Data Management or Analytics Solution<br \/>\n\u2022\tFintech Innovation Award<br \/>\n\u2022\tIoT Product \/ Service of the Year<br \/>\n\u2022\tOrange Africa Social Venture Prize<br \/>\n\u2022\tCEO of the year<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed look at the category information please follow <a href=\"http:\/\/africacom-awards.telecoms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/africacom-awards.telecoms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to submit an entry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets<\/strong><br \/>\nBe a part of a spectacular evening that recognises and promotes achievements in digital transformation across the continent. To book a table or a number of seats please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/tmt.knect365.com\/africacom\/purchase\/select-package?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=AfricaCom%20Awards&amp;utm_source=AfricaCom%202017&amp;user_id=900059520803&amp;tracker_id=\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get involved<\/strong><br \/>\nWith 450 senior level attendees, the AfricaCom Awards is the perfect platform to position your brand and host clients and partners. If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities please contact Becky Lyons today:<br \/>\nEmail: Becky.Lyons@knect365.com Call: +44 (20) 701 74725.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AfricaCom Awards celebrate the achievements of the best companies, solutions, products and personalities improving connectivity and driving Africa through the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In line with all the exciting new focus areas at AfricaCom this year, you\u2019ll see a revitalised list of categories for 2017 to celebrate the best and brightest across TMT in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":14399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,399],"tags":[385,1953,321,389,1002],"class_list":["post-14398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-more-news","tag-africa","tag-africacom-awards","tag-cape-town","tag-digital-transformation","tag-fourth-industrial-revolution"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}