The World Technology Network (WTN) announced that Clickatell has been selected as a nominee for a 2009 World Technology Award, presented by the World Technology Network, in association with TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, and Science magazine, among others. Clickatell is eligible to be selected as the winner of the 2009 World Technology Award in “Communications and Technology”.
James P Clark, founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network, commented: “The World Technology Awards programme is not only a very inspiring way to identify and honour the most innovative people and organisations in the technology world, but it also is a truly disciplined way for the WTN membership to identify those who will formally join them as part of our global community. By working to make useful connections among our members, we look forward to assisting Clickatell continue to help create our collective future and change our world."
Winners will be announced on 16 July 2009, in New York, at the World Technology Awards gala ceremony at the TIME & Life Building, at the conclusion of the two-day World Technology Summit.
The World Technology Awards honour individuals and corporations from 20 technology-related sectors, viewed by peers as being the most innovative and doing the work of the greatest likely long-term significance. Award categories range from communications, biotechnology, space and energy through to ethics, design and entertainment.
Nominated for its innovative SMS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Gateway, Clickatell provides companies around the world with the ability to deploy mobile messaging services in hours. “We are pleased with the recognition and owe it all to our innovative customers. Developers from social networking creators, like mig33, healthcare service providers, like ComplyRx, innovative banks, like First National Bank, and leading retailers, like Fruit & Veg City, are the real heroes,” exclaimed Pieter de Villiers, CEO of Clickatell. “They understand that people want to transact, communicate and receive real value from their mobile phone. Using Clickatell to offer text services is easier than ever - developers can deliver new ways to engage customers and ultimately improve the bottom line through cost savings and new revenue streams.”
Nominees for the 2009 World Technology Awards were identified based on an intensive, global process over a period of many months, in which current individual WTN members (primarily elected WTN Fellows from previous awards cycles, who now number over 1 000, spread out over 60 countries) made their nominations based on who they think is doing the innovative work in their field of the greatest likely long-term significance. After the WTN gathers further information from nominees, WTN individual member then vote on their preferences within their category. The top five selections in each category are announced from the podium on stage at the awards ceremony, and inducted into the WTN membership as Corporate Members. The winner receives an award on stage and makes comments about their innovative work to those assembled.
A selection of WTN members in the 20 different award categories, who nominated/judged/voted in recent years, includes:
* Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3c)
* Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and Founder, Skype
* Gordon Moore, Co-Founder, Intel
* Kilnam Chon, Professor, Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology (Kaist)
* Richard Marks, Manager, Special Projects, Sony Computer Entertainment
* Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School; author “The Future Of Ideas”
* Philippe Van Nedervelde, Executive Director, Foresight Institute Europe
* Calestous Juma, Professor Of The Practice Of International Development, Kennedy School Of Government, Harvard University
* Gary Shapiro, President, Consumer Electronics Association Of America
* Don Peppers, Co-Founder, Peppers & Rogers Group; author “One To One Future”
* Dan Gillmor, Author, “We The Media; Grassroots Journalism By The People, For The People”; Former Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News
* Gregory Stock, Director, Program On Medicine, Technology, & Society, UCLA
* Fred Von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Leslie Vadascz, Former President, Intel Capital
* Ann Winblad, Co-Founder, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
* Richard Dasher, Executive Director, US-Asia Technology Management Centre, Stanford University
* Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
* Albert Teich, Director, Science And Policy Programs, American Association For The Advancement Of Science (Aaas)
* Daniel Goldin, Chairman, The Intellisis Corporation; Former Administrator, NASA
* Molly Coye, President, Health Technology Centre
* Bert Keely, Architect, Tablet Pc, Microsoft
* Jim Fruchterman, President & CEO, The Benetech Initiative
* Alexandra Weber Morales, Editor In Chief, Software Development Magazine
This year's World Technology Awards ceremony will cap the 2009 World Technology Summit taking place on 15 and 16 July at the TIME Conference Centre in the historic TIME & Life Building, in New York City. This year's summit - which has as its theme "How to Save the Future”, will also include demos from the stage, and exhibits from the floor. For more information on the World Technology Network, World Technology Awards and World Technology Summit, please visit http://www.wtn.net.
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The World Technology Network
The World Technology Network is a New York-headquartered organisation that was created to "encourage serendipity” - happy accidents - among those individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative in the science and technology world. WTN's areas of interest range from IT and communications to biotech, energy, materials, space, and related fields such as finance, marketing, policy, law, design, and ethics. Each year, WTN members are brought together through an ongoing global series of regional roundtables, global summits and other events. The WTN has also convened the World Energy Technologies Summit at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The central events in the WTN calendar include the annual World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards - the culmination of a global judging programme through which new members are nominated and selected, and by which the network grows and is refreshed.
Clickatell
Clickatell enables businesses, governments and communities to leverage the ubiquity of mobile messaging to inform, alert, notify, transact, interact and share information. Delivering mobile messaging solutions since 2000, Clickatell is a global leader in mobile communications specializing in SaaS messaging services and Bulk SMS gateway connectivity to small, medium and large enterprises in a variety of vertical markets. Clickatell's multi-modal capability and worldwide coverage gives organizations the power to deliver any message to any device anywhere in the world. Reaching 775 networks in more than 200 countries, Clickatell serves 8,300 customers including BBC, Continental Airlines, CNN, First National Bank, Metropolitan Life, Oracle, Shell, and other industry leaders. Clickatell products and services increase customer acquisition, improve loyalty and build trusted brands through direct, personal, easy, and immediate communications. A Sequoia-backed company, Clickatell is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and has offices in Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please visit http://www.clickatell.com/central/campaigns/redir.php?cid=96210
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