{"id":264073,"date":"2018-08-08T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=264073"},"modified":"2018-08-08T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:56:27","slug":"2018-mtn-app-of-the-year-awards-entries-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/264073\/2018-mtn-app-of-the-year-awards-entries-open\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 MTN App of the Year Awards entries open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has opened entries for its popular <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXBwb2Z0aGV5ZWFyLmNvLnphLw?source=080818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>App of the Year Awards<\/strong><\/a>, which is the biggest and most prestigious app development competition in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The MTN Business App of the Year Awards is a champion of app development in South Africa, and celebrates local talent and out-of-the-box thinkers who drive disruption and change.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its seventh year, the competition offers app developers great prizes and excellent media exposure.<\/p>\n<p>The MTN Business App of the Year Awards has a history of small businesses and large corporates working together for the greater good of society.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, it has seen groundbreaking solutions being developed and presented by people from a diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about connecting people who can provide real solutions to the real-life challenges cutting across society,\u201d said MTN.<\/p>\n<p>Past winners include the payment app SnapScan, on-demand delivery startup WumDrop, and Domestly &#8211; which makes it easier to browse, book, and pay a cleaning service.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Categories and entry<\/h3>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXBwb2Z0aGV5ZWFyLmNvLnphL2NhdGVnb3JpZXMv?source=080818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>12 categories<\/strong><\/a> in this year\u2019s MTN Business App of the Year Awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Consumer Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Women in STEM Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Enterprise Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Incubated Solution<\/li>\n<li>Most Innovative Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Health Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Gaming Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Agricultural Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Educational Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Financial Solution<\/li>\n<li>Best Breakthrough Developer<\/li>\n<li>Best \u201cSouth African\u201d App<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Developers can enter their app here: <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXBwb2Z0aGV5ZWFyLmNvLnphL3N1Ym1pdC8?source=080818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MTN Business App of the Year Awards Entry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can win great prizes in the latest MTN App of the Year Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":264079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[13275,26,28,13273,1019],"class_list":["post-264073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-app-of-the-year","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-app-of-the-year","tag-mtn-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264081,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264073\/revisions\/264081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}