MoMo Kampala – November 8th – the Gist of M4D
Posted on: November 1, 2010 – Filed under: Kampala
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” Alan Kay
Mobile Monday Kampala is pleased to announce that its next meeting, on the theme, Simple, Low-cost Solutions, the Gist of M4D, will be hosted by Grameen Foundation and held at MTN Uganda Nyonyi Gardens on Monday 8th November, starting at 5:30 PM.
We’ve got a great MoMo lined up with an international panel of speakers with a bent on inventing the future, chaired by Grameen’s Sean Krepp. MoMo CEO and President, Jari Tammisto will be giving the opening remarks and introducing keynotes. FrontlineSMS and Kiwanja.net founder Ken Banks will give a keynote on “Mobiles4Development: The FrontlineSMS Experience”. Matt Berg, presenting over Skype, will give a keynote on “ChildCount+, Facts for Life SMS”.
Ken Banks says, “I’d go with the kids’ instinct over an adult’s any day.” Matt Berg, “We’re now realizing the full potential of using mobile phones for improving people’s lives. I’m fortunate to be part of an amazing community working to change the way we address key development challenges.”
Also, AppLab’s Olga Morawczynski will present “Tthe FinLit Project: Enhancing Access to Banking Services in Rural Uganda, and Professor Andy Dearden’s “Integrating Mobile Data Services Into Existing Information Ecosystems” will explain how understanding the complex and intricate network of resources of those working in a typical village is key to making M4D an effective tool. TNO’s Jenny de Boer will present a fascinating project of innovation and invention in “MobiScopy: Remote Diagnosis by Mobile Microscopy!”. Our meeting will be in conjunction with the Karlstad and Makerere University-organized conference, M4D2010.
I am also delighted to report that MoMo Kampala and MoMo Nairobi were well represented at the 10th Anniversary MoMo Summit just held in Helsinki and Tallinn. Our MoMoKla Peer Awards finalist, Revence Kalibwani, was a real hit with the audience of 350 MoMo enthusiasts and jurors with his fireside chat style presentation, and led the race for the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid startup category – until another Ugandan, Alex Nyika, won the competition, with iCheki, a mobile phone software solution designed to help users of public transport in to track matatus coming their way (iCheki is Swahili for “I see”). Complimenting our East African contingent was fiery orator and iHub project manager Jessica Colaco with Ushahidi programmer, Linda Kamau, and lead organizer for MoMo Nairobi, John Wasonga. Reporting on the Summit for the Daily Monitor was Walter Wafula, and yours truly gave a presentation from the Soapbox during the Mobile Brain Bank event about our mHealth Uganda SIG’s project to reach out to expectant mothers in the villages by providing mobile services to health care workers. Together I’d say we made an impressive positive impact on the event; yea, we were very cool! You definitely want to be there for MoMo Summit 2011.
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