AfricaCom 2013 Awards celebrates and acknowledges the industry’s best achievements that have taken place across the African continent over the past year. Medigraf was the winner of the “Changing Lives” category. This special award recognizes an inspiring initiative that has significantly impacted African telecommunications in the community and contributed to economic and social development.
Medigraf stands out as an application with the ability to improve the populations’ life conditions, concerning to their most valuable assets: their health and well-being. It is a web platform for remote medical assistance and training that makes available general or specialized medical services to any part of the globe. Health professionals and practitioners can perform remote medical acts or medical training on any medical specialty, with mobility, flexibility and at low operating costs, remotely covering areas previously without general or specialized medical services.
AfricaCom is Africa’s largest communications conference & exhibition. Now in its 16th year, the conference features more than 350 exhibitors and an astounding 8.000 senior decision-makers representing the entire communications ecosystem across Africa and beyond. The conference program covers the most strategic issues affecting companies in Africa’s digital market – services, efficiency, profitability, customer experience, partnerships, policy and more – and features 6 co-located events: LTE, Digital Music, Mobile Money, AfricaCast, AfricApps, Cloud/Big Data.