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Ovi Store Growing Strong in Africa
jasonblack | 04 October, 2010 16:37
The African market is growing strong, with consumers and developers reaping rewards. Since July 1, 2010, Ovi Store delivered a 50% growth in downloads and a 51% increase in revenue by African consumers and African developers respectively. Ovi Store grew South African purchases by 438% since operator billing was rolled out in June.
This success has attracted a 60% increase in African developers registered with Forum Nokia, and these developers are already delivering prize-winning apps. In this year's Calling All Innovators contest AppCRAFT (South Africa), IRWAA and LLC (Egypt) climbed to the top spots in the Life Improvement category. Also, Virtual City (Kenya) received $1 million (USD) in funding as the winner of the Growth Economy Venture Challenge. The company’s Mobile Distributor Solution, which supports small and micro enterprises in emerging markets, was chosen by a panel of judges as the app most likely to improve the lives of people in the developing world.
Growth has been widespread throughout the region, with trends that showcase the strength of Nokia’s global reach. In South Africa, there is a strong base of mobile developers that sell to consumers in multiple languages. Northern Africa is currently one of the top regions for developers serving Arabic-speaking markets worldwide. Finally, East Africa is becoming a center of entrepreneurial growth, with consumers pioneering the use of mobile payment systems like M-PESA, Zap, Yu-Cash powered by Obopay, MTN Money and Orange Money which together have an estimated 12million subscribers connected.
African developers have many opportunities for continued training and engagement throughout the remainder of 2010. Opportunities include Mobile Monday networking events; developer breakfasts and Qt training events, among others. Below is a list of the planned events; To get the latest information on Nokia developer events in Africa, follow our event calendar.
| Oct.08 | Developer breakfast | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Oct.11 | Developer breakfast | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Oct.14 | Media owners breakfast | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 26-29 | Qt+ Java Training | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Oct.29 | Media owners breakfast | Nairobi, Kenya |
| October | Media company breakfast | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| November 9-12 | Qt Training | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Nov.14 | Qt Workshop | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nov.22 | Mobile Monday | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nov.22 | Mobile Monday | Nairobi, Kenya |
| November | Developer breakfast | Nairobi, Kenya |
| November | Developer breakfast | Lagos, Nigeria |
| November | MoMo launch collaboration | Lagos, Nigeria |
| November | Training event | Lagos, Nigeria |
| Dec.03 | Developer breakfast | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Dec.07 | Developer breakfast | Cape Town, South Africa |
| December | Nokia + WB mlab launch | Nairobi, Kenya |
| December | Developer breakfast | Lagos, Nigeria |
| December | Nokia + WB mlab launch | Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Tanzania developer community & Mobile Monday Dar es Salaam
markoteras | 22/10/2010, 08:58
Sounds that you guys are missing Tanzania from the events. The guys and gals there are working really hard to build their Mobile Monday event. First preliminary one was held already and more coming up.
If you Tanzanian developers are interested, as you most definitely should be! :), check out Mobile Monday Dar es Salaan at http://mobilemonday.co.tz
Re: Ovi Store Growing Strong in Africa
harrimy | 03/11/2010, 18:01
Hi, do you have dates for the Nigeria events in November?
Events by Country
lulama | 11/10/2010, 14:51
Good day
The events page does correspond with this page, I can't find the South African events on the page. I need to attend the events that will be held in Johannesburg.
Regards,
Lulama