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Dropifi wins Top App at TOPAPPS Awards 2012

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Dropifi, a promising start-up company at Meltwater Entrepreneurship School of Technology, won the Top App of the Year in the TopApps Award 2012, Ghana’s premier apps exhibition and award event. Dropifi is a web app which helps businesses to convert their contacts into loyal customers by analyzing the profiles of their customers to understand their personality and emotions behind each message using real-time analytics. They also picked up the Web App 2012 and Top User Experience App 2012, and took a crystal plaque, a brand new laptop and a cash prize. TopApps Award 2012, which was well-attended by Ghana’s top mobile, web and SMS apps developers in addition to some industry stakeholders, is the maiden edition of an annual award to exhibit apps developed in Ghana as well as award the ones that are innovative, original and have market value. The over-packed auditorium was a proof of the revolution taking place in the data creation space by content developers in Ghana. Other winners include 233Law, Ghana’s constitution on mobile phones app, won both Social App 2012 and Mobile App 2012; Hei-Julor, a mobile phone emergency alert system aided by GPS, won SMS App 2012; AdsBrook, a context-based mobile phone advertising app, won Most Innovative New App 2012; FM Live, an app containing extensive online directory of global radio stations with recording, multi-language and other functionalities, won Entertainment App 2012; Kweku Danso of Yougora for App Developer 2012; and Yougora for App Company 2012. Some personalities and organizations were also rewarded for their contribution to app development in Ghana; Raindolf Owusu of Oasis Websoft and Florence Toffa of Mobile Web Ghana were given Special Recognition Award for developing Africa’s second Computer Operating System with browser calleAnansi and training the youth in app development respectively. Meltwater Entrepreneurship School of Technology, Ashesi University and Mobile Web Ghana were also given Special Recognition Awards for growing the business and industry of app development in Ghana through training of young Ghanaians. The event which received a lot of endorsements by the excited participants is here to help guide and create local contents for the web, mobile and SMS platforms in Ghana which can be consumed locally and globally. TopApps Award 2012 was organized by PopOut, a start-up based in Accra, in partnership with Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, BusyInternet and Citi 97.3fm. It was supported by Edge Capital, Erke Ghana, Enquesta, Rack Africa, BROS SMS, TelecomEye, Eventstreet Africa, Jon Williams Consult, GhanaBusinessNews,Ghana Developers, and BusinessGhana.

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