A Perfect MoMo Dar Launch

A Perfect MoMo Dar Launch

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