Greetings ,

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH and Elearning Africa invites you to another life changing evening on Thursday, 26th May 2011 with the theme, Innovative use of mobiles for Learning.

The panel will include experts on the subject both from Africa and beyond, These include:

Prof John Traxler
Director of the Learning Lab and Professor of Mobile Learning at the University of Wolverhampton.

Riitta Vanska
senior manager, mobile and learning solutions, with Nokia

Ms. Magreth Mushi
Open University of Tanzania.

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

For More information about E-learning Africa visit http://www.elearning-africa.com/

See you there.

With Regards

Anthony
On Behalf of MoMo Dar
+255 754 710 939
http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH presents another life changing evening on Monday, 7th March 2011 with the theme, Innovative use of Mobiles in Marketing and Advertising

The Panel will include representatives of some of Tanzania’s market leaders in Mobile Marketing , namely:

Presenters:

Bongo Live
http://www.bongolive.co.tz

PUSH Mobile
http://www.push.co.tz

MASOKO Tanzania
http://www.masokotz.com

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

GET YOUR FREE TICKET NOW Please bring enough business cards

See you there.

With Regards

Anthony
On Behalf of MoMo Dar
+255 754 710 939
http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz

State of Mobile Banking and Payments in Tanzania.

Greetings and a Happy New Year to you ,

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH presents another life changing evening this monday, 17th January 2011 with the theme, State of Mobile banking and Payments in Tanzania.

The Panel will include representatives of some of Tanzania’s market leaders in Mobile Banking, namely:

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

BOOK TICKET NOW

See you there.

With Regards

Anthony

On Behalf of MoMo Dar

+255 754 710 939

http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz

Please bring enough business cards

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH, ICT@INNOVATION, UCC and FOSSFA presents another life changing Monday evening on 6th December 2010 with the theme, TRANFORMING INNOVATIONS TO BUSINESS

The Panel will include three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, namely:

LEILA JANAH is the founder of Samasource (www.samasource.org), a social business that connects women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource has generated over $550,000 for women, youth, and refugee workers in nine countries around the world.
PAUL BRAGIEL is the co-founder of I/O ventures.  Previously he co-founded Lyoa, a product bringing forums into the 21st Century; Mentor, the first location based social network; and Paragon Five, a game development studio specializing in console and mobile with offices in Chicago and Poland.
RUSSEL SIMMONS was the co-founder and CTO of Yelp (www.yelp.com), a website that helps people find local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics. Yelp has grown to over 38 million monthly users and was valued in early 2010 at over $500 million.  Prior to Yelp, Russ was one of the early employees and lead software architect at PayPal.
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Please note that the event starts at 1800HRs so please keep time.

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Friday,5th November marked another successful day in the history of Mobile Monday both globally and in Tanzania, a new chapter was added to the MoMo Family of more than 109 chapters around the world. The launch of MoMo was at the home of MoMo in Dar COSTECH[Commission for Science and Technology]. The guest of honour was the C.E.O of Mobile Monday Global,Jari Tammisto from Finland.

Other people on the panel included the Director General of COSTECH Dr.Hassan Mshinda,Amina Lukanza from Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam and Joachim Mangilima a software developer.The event started at 5:30pm with Dr Hassan giving the opening remarks and introducing Jari who gave a history of Mobile Monday and show cased a video of Mobile Monday events around the world.The crowd then fired Jari with a number of questions regarding Mobile Monday which he all answered very well.

Amina Lukanza of the Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam team then went through a presentation showing the year plan of MoMo Dar activities some of the topics to be discussed in the coming months include Mobile Marketing,Mobiles 4 Development, M-learning, Business Financing and Investment plus other activities like Developer competitions, training and Mobile Innovation Awards were also not left out.

Lastly we had demo from Joachim Mangilima showing a low cost mobile phone based data collection system which leverages GPRS and J2me technology to provide a cost effective alternative to computers in the field.The application can be used to collect any data from the field and submit it to a server.From the server the data can then be  analyzed for generating reports.

Any company that needs to use this technology please contact us and we shall put you in touch with the developer

It was histroy in the making last week when professionals in the Tanzania Mobile and I.C.T sector met at the inagural Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam (a.k.a MoMoDar) meet up hosted by Commision for Science and Technology (COSTECH) at their headquaters. We were very happy about the the turn up of 70 people. We thank all those who attended and urge you to keep your eyes on the website for the next meetup which will also be our official launch in November.

The meeting started at 6:30pm with welcome remarks from Dr.Hassan Mshinda the Director General of COSTECH,

This was followed by a presentation on the “Mobile Monday Concept” by Anthony Kigombola

At about 7:10pm Dr.Raphael Mmasi, Director of Information and Documentation at COSTECH gave a presentation on “Trends of ICT development in Tanzania”

Developers were represented by Mr.Kiiza Mtungi Co-Founder of the Value Added Service start up Dar411Mobile who gave a presentation on “SEMA” , what he discribed as the gap between the people without internet or internet enabled phones and social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Last on the Agenda was an open discussion on the future of Mobile Monday in Dar-es-Salaam, many stake holders welcomed the idea saying

Mobile Monday is a tool that is going to bring together the local Mobile community to embark on strategies that benefit the country in this competitive era where a Mobile is a Key to Peoples lives.

PICTURES

VIDEOS

Virtual City Ltd, a home-grown Kenyan company is this year’s winner of the global Growth Economy Venture Challenge offered by mobile phone solutions company Nokia. The award was won in recognition to the company’s Mobile Distributor Solution designed to improve the distribution efficiencies for small and micro enterprises in the fast moving consumer goods market.

A panel of experts judged their submission – Mobile Distributor Solution, which supports small and micro enterprises in emerging markets – to be the worthy winner. John Waibochi of Virtual City Ltd received Shs 80 Million (USD 1 million) in venture capital investment and a commitment of support from Nokia to help turn the idea into reality.

The announcement at the Nokia Developer Summit the Mobile Distributor Solution aims to boost the profitability of small and micro-businesses by increasing the number of transactions as well as improving inventory management, the accuracy of records, and reporting from the field.

In the Growth Economy Venture Challenge, developers were required to submit their best idea for a new mobile product or solution designed to improve the lives of people in the developing world.

Judges looked for one idea that has risen above the rest, an idea that changes the way people use Nokia mobile devices, demonstrates how mobility can radically improve the lives of people who reside in areas where the average income is under USD 5 / day, or an idea that recognizes a good business opportunity that also contributes to “doing good” in the world.

http://cio.co.ke/view-all-top-stories/1803-virtual-citys-mobile-distributor-solution-wins-nokias-1m.html