4th Mobile Monday Meetup

4th Mobile Monday Meetup

We had our 4th MoMo meet up at the IHub on the 26th of July. The meet up was moderated by our favorite group of techie ladies, Akira Chix. Kicking of the meet up was Linda Kamau (twitter @lkamau) of Ushahidi, who walked us through the new Ushahidi Android application, interestingly the core developer of the app Henry Addo was present at the iHub though he didn’t chime in. I had the pleasure of chatting with him for a few minutes and picking is brain.

David Mark of the IAVI (International Aids Vaccine Initiative) also gave us a very interesting look into how SMS has been used by the IAVI to monitor sex workers. RapidSMS is the platform being used by IAVI and if you ever want to know some of the interesting lessons about deploying and managing an SMS solution David is the person to talk to.

When all this was happening, Jessica and I decided to compare our HTC devices, the geek and techie in us couldn’t help it.

Big thanks to iHub for providing the venue and Akira Chix for doing an excellent job at moderating the event.