Archive for the ‘apps’ tag
Will Open Data Give Rise to Great Stuff?
Sindo District Hospital in Western Kenya. source: Flickr - DFID-UK
There’s a health center in my village. I don’t know how many health care workers have been assigned to it, how much money it was allocated in the last fiscal year, how many people it serves or who’s in charge. I don’t know what the mortality rate is in my county or how we measure up when compared to the neighboring counties. If nothing changes, I probably never will.
TweetPIVOT25, East Africa’s First Mobile Developer Conference
PIVOT25 - Nairobi, Kenya. 14 - 15th June, 2011
PIVOT25 is East Africa’s first mobile developer challenge and conference. Happening on the 14 & 15th of June, 2011 the event enjoys the support of Nokia, the World Bank’s infoDev, Google, DEMO and Equity Bank among others. The winner of the challenge will get an opportunity to pitch at DEMO in September 2011. See the press release here.
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MXit's Android App
The iTunes App store has had phenomenal success as a content distribution platform starting with music and then moving into magazines, books and software applications. There are currently more than 300,000 apps on offer on the App store and numerous stories of developers who went on to make millions of dollars from publishing the apps to the store. The App store may have been solely responsible for spawning a whole new sub-sector for application development that wasn’t taken very seriously until then. Read the rest of this entry »
TweetHow to Innovate Mobile Services for the Bottom of the Pyramid
Those living at the bottom of the pyramid represent the single largest people group in the world. Businesses that successfully innovate services and products for this space often find success.
Semacraft is hosting a workshop in Nairobi on September 4th on ‘How to Innovate Mobile Services for the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid‘.
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