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Clickatell Nominated for Prestigious World Technology Award
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/28/09 --
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 program is not only a very
inspiring way to identify and honor the most innovative people and
organizations 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 July 16, 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 honor individuals and corporations from twenty 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 1000, 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 members 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 & 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 Center, 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 Center
-- 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 the 15th and 16th of July at the TIME
Conference Center 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 www.wtn.net.
About The World Technology Network
The World Technology Network is a New York-headquartered organization that
was created to "encourage serendipity" -- happy accidents -- amongst 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
program through which new members are nominated and selected and by which
the network grows and is refreshed.
About 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=96209
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Media Contacts:
Kelly Brieger
Clickatell
Email Contact
James P. Clark
Chairman
The World Technology Network
Email Contact
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