{"id":2461,"date":"2019-09-10T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:05:05","slug":"borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderless Access Wins The PAMRO (2019) Partner Paper Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius, August 28, 2019:&nbsp;<\/strong>The 21st Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) conference, held in Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius, came to a conclusion on the 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;of August with a ceremony that recognized the best papers presented at the forum this year.<\/p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><p style=\"font-size:18px\">Of the two awards presented, Borderless Access was the proud winner of the PAMRO Partner Paper Award. The award was handed out to Borderless Access representatives,&nbsp;<strong>Ejaz Mirza, AVP Client Development, Middle East and Africa&nbsp;<\/strong>(Left) and<strong>&nbsp;Bev Tigar, Lead Business Development Consultant, Africa&nbsp;<\/strong>(Right) by PAMRO President, Sifiso Falala (Center).<\/p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><p style=\"font-size:18px\">The PAMRO Partner Paper Award is awarded to the paper that \u201cbest reflects the aim and theme of the conference, as well as the paper PAMRO can partner with for the next year to affect change.\u201d<\/p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><p style=\"font-size:18px\">Borderless Access\u2019 presentation, titled&nbsp;<strong>#10YearChallenge \u2013 Data drives insights and insights drive decisions,&nbsp;<\/strong>was presented in partnership with&nbsp;<strong>Unilever&#8217;s Claire Bekker, Food and Refreshment CMI lead, Africa.<\/strong><\/p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><p style=\"font-size:18px\">The aim of the presentation was to better understand African consumers by exploring the evolution of food preparation methods in South African homes, over a period of 10 years, using analytical and exploratory market research methodologies, and in turn, understand the digital evolution of the MR industry in Africa.<\/p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our keynote at PAMRO 2019 alongside Unilever\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eboUxQuBd3A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><p style=\"font-size:18px\">Acknowledging the award, Dushyant Gupta, Executive Vice President, Borderless Access said,<em>&nbsp;\u201cTo have our presentation and company recognised&nbsp;by Africa\u2019s premier insights and research forum is a proud moment and a significant achievement. We look forward to partnering with PAMRO to spread its message and taking forward the theme to help navigate brands investing in Africa<\/em><\/p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>About Borderless Access:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><br><\/strong>Borderless Access, a global digital MR products and solutions company, provides access to experiences and life moments of engaged consumers from hard-to-reach B2B and B2C segments in emerging and developed markets to its global clientele of MR firms, ad agencies, consultancy firms, and end enterprises, through technology and community analytics. Its innovative offerings include <a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/ba-connect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Panel Solutions<\/a>, SmartSight\u2122, HealthSight\u2122, and TAPP\u2122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius, August 28, 2019:&nbsp;The 21st Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) conference, held in Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius, came to a conclusion on the 28th&nbsp;of August with a ceremony that recognized the best papers presented at the forum this year. Of the two awards presented, Borderless Access was the proud winner of the PAMRO Partner Paper Award. The award was handed out to Borderless Access representatives,&nbsp;Ejaz Mirza, AVP Client Development, Middle East and Africa&nbsp;(Left) and&nbsp;Bev Tigar, Lead Business Development Consultant, Africa&nbsp;(Right) by PAMRO President, Sifiso Falala (Center). The PAMRO Partner Paper Award is awarded to the paper that \u201cbest reflects the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[226,154,143,196,119,225],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expert-talk","tag-africa-market-research","tag-awards","tag-consumer-behaviour","tag-consumer-insights","tag-market-research","tag-pamro"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v22.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Borderless Access Wins PAMRO 2019 Partner Paper Award<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Borderless Access wins PAMRO Partner Paper Award for presentation, titled #10YearChallenge \u2013 Data drives insights and insights drive decisions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Borderless Access Wins The PAMRO (2019) Partner Paper Award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Borderless Access wins PAMRO Partner Paper Award for presentation, titled #10YearChallenge \u2013 Data drives insights and insights drive decisions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Market Research Insights -Borderless Access Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-10T10:22:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-16T12:05:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PAMRO-award-1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"715\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cindy Bowdan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cindy Bowdan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/\",\"name\":\"Borderless Access Wins PAMRO 2019 Partner Paper Award\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-10T10:22:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-16T12:05:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7cef99a161a6dc7f1d93f063980cd0fd\"},\"description\":\"Borderless Access wins PAMRO Partner Paper Award for presentation, titled #10YearChallenge \u2013 Data drives insights and insights drive decisions.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/borderless-access-wins-the-pamro-2019-partner-paper-award\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Borderless Access Wins The PAMRO (2019) Partner Paper Award\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/borderlessaccess.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Market Research Insights - Borderless Access Blog\",\"description\":\"Gain fresh perspectives and insights on global trends for your business growth. 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