Ugandan Developer Nominated for Global Awards
Posted on: September 23, 2010 – Filed under: Global
Meet Revence Kalibwani, a 25 year-old ‘self-made’ software developer. The computer whiz kid is set to represent Uganda at the 2010 Mobile Monday Peer Awards in Helsinki, Finland on September 25.
The prestigious mobile communication awards recognise outstanding mobile software developers from around the world annually. The awards are an initiative of Mobile Monday global, the international association for mobile professionals, and visionaries.
Mr Kalibwani was nominated for the Peer Awards two weeks ago after outshining eight other software developers including; certified information technology expert from Uganda Telecom and information technology (IT) students from Makerere University. Interestingly, he has neither an information technology or computer science degree to his name but practical experience from a Kampala-based IT firm.
Mr Kalibwani emerged winner of the contest after presenting his Adjection software application at the Mobile Monday Kampala Peer Award Review conference last month. Adjection enables people to surf the internet on mobile and computers at lower costs by letting advertiser’s to subsidize the cost of access to the internet. Via: Daily Monitor