Last week Mobile Monday Dar es Salaam brought together 40 people interested in mHealth. We had three great presentations: Mr Marcos Mzeru from Ministry of Health and Social Welfare started with an overview of mHealth in Tanzania, followed by Peter Lubambi from D-Tree International sharing their experiences from reducing maternal mortality in Zanzibar with an mHealth approach, and [...]

Where are we now with mHealth in Tanzania? mHealth is a hot topic and there are many exciting initiatives taking place all around Tanzania. Do you want to know where we are now? Come to the next Mobile Monday! We have an extremely impressive lineup of presenters sharing their views, experiences and knowledge: Ministry of Health, D-Tree [...]

We just heard of really good news for everyone who wants to learn mobile app development! Dar Teknohama Business Incubator (DTBi)  is organizing a 6-week full-time course on mobile app development in cooperation with Nokia. The course is starting on April 2nd and is offered free of charge! You need to be familiar with software development but no prior [...]

Mobile Monday happens every first Monday of the Month, but this March we are having a different kind of Mobile Monday since the last Mobile Monday was held in conjunction with Pivot Competition from Nairobi on 27th February, 2012. The next Mobile Monday will be for Girls only with the Theme “Social Media and What [...]

Yesterday we had the Pivot East workshop at the innovation space. It was organized together with Annie Njenga and Njeri Thande from m:lab Nairobi , Mobile Monday Dar and COSTECH. Aim of the workshop was to create awareness in the Pivot East mobile developer competition in the Tanzanian developer community, and also help build skills and connections needed to successfully take part [...]

MoMoDar in collaboration with Pivot East (refer to:  http://pivoteast.com/ ) is delighted to bring on the PIVOT EAST WORKSHOP event this February 27th, 10am-4pm at COSTECH. The objectives of the workshop will be: 1. Create awareness and encourage participation in Pivot East mobile app developer competition. (see related blog:  http://pivoteast.com/competition/) 2. Assist the developer and innovation community with acquisition of business development skills [...]

Greetings All. Last Monday we had another MoMo event at COSTECH innovation space, and the theme was “Mobile for Rural Development”. We had three presenters: one from mobile network provider Mr Mukund Chopra (Innovation manager from Tigo), another one was Mr Peter Ulanga from UCSAF and Mr Eric Mutta (Apps4Africa winner).

Greetings, How can the mobile phone industry best contribute to the village, district and national development?  What are the roles of ICT community in rural development especially with regards to the exploitation of widespread mobile networks coverage? Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH presents the opportunity in discussing and debating on how mobile phones can speed up [...]

Greetings All, In the last MoMoDar for this year, we dive into the possibilities and debate of open data and linking information to mobile mapping tools! The next event will be on 5th December,2011 at COSTECH. Our exciting speakers for the evening are: Mr Joseph Ngwegwe, Tanzania Program Manager of Twaweza. Joseph will introduce us into Open Government [...]

Greetings All, It has been a while since our last meetup, well a lot of good things have been happening like Barcamp Tanzania, Developer Hackathons, Startup Tanzania and the launch of the Innovations hub and co-working space at COSTECH. Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam is delighted to kick off the event calender for the just launched innovation and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, ICT@INNOVATION, UCC and FOSSFA presents another life changing Monday evening on 6th December 2010 with the theme, TRANFORMING INNOVATIONS TO BUSINESS

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. The guest of honour was the C.E.O of Mobile Monday [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]