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Press Release:  World Bank ‘Apps for Development’ Competition Yields Global Response, Opens Public Voting- REGISTER YOUR VOTE NOW! (click on link below) WASHINGTON, January 31, 2011 – The World Bank today announced that it has opened public voting on the applications submitted to the Apps for Development Competition(http://worldbank.org/appsfordevelopment), a challenge issued to software developers by the World Bank to get new perspectives in identifying solutions to development problems. The Popular Choice Award will be determined by public vote and the winner will receive a cash award and a feature on the World Bank website. Here is the link for the World Bank …

Text to Change is very proud to be nominated for the Best Product, Initiative or Service for Underserved segments for the GSMA’s 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards.

Follow the link below for more details:

http://www.texttochange.org/news/text_change_nominated_gsmas_16th_annual_global_mobile_awards

Dear MoMoers, Thank you for attending our MoMo Kampala meeting last Monday, on the theme The Gist of M4D.  Did we actually have more than 160 delegates attend?  That’s a record for us; but the thing that matters most is the quality of the interactions, the number of hits on the truth button, if you will, during presentations, Q&A, private and informal networking, that elevates the mind and spirit and creates the palpable energy that we each look forward and expect to experience at each MoMo event.  I am sure you will agree that this last one really rocked!  I …

You can download the slides on the links below: 1. Matt Berg, ICT Director Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute of Columbia University “m4D: A Year in Retrospect” m4D:A Year  in Retrospect 2. Ken Banks, Founder Kiwanja.net “Mobiles4Development: The FrontlineSMS Experience” kiwanja-mobile-monday-kampala-november-2010.pdf 3. Olga Morawczynski, Financial Literacy Project Manager, AppLab “The FinLit Project: Enhancing access to banking services in rural Uganda” momo-olga.pdf 4. Andrew Dearden, Professor Interactive Systems Design, Sheffield Hallam University “Integrating mobile data services into existing information ecosystems” momo-andy.pdf 5.  Jenny de Boer, Consultant Innovation Management in ICT4D at TNO “MobiScopy: Remote diagnosis by mobile microscopy” 101108 momokla mobiscopy.pdf …

MoMoKla Programme M4D2010 Grameen Foundation 8 Nov 2010

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“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 …

Smile, it’s Monday, and who is Revence Kalibwani? Think Uganda, young, software developer, computer genius, innovation, and Scyfy. He represented Uganda at the 2010 Mobile Monday Peer Awards in Helsinki, Finland on September 26.

For more details, follow this link:http://www.techistan.com/2010/09/28/mobilemonday-peer-award-winner-revence-kalibwani-of-uganda-enables-carriers-and-users/

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 of experts judged their submission – Mobile Distributor Solution, which supports small and micro enterprises in emerging markets – to be the worthy winner. John Waibochi of Virtual City Ltd received Shs 80 Million (USD 1 million) in venture capital investment and a …

You can download the slides on the links below:

1. momo-loan-call-alternative

2. Dr Michael Lipnick – Foray into Health IT

3. mobi_drugs_presentation

More downloads coming soon……….

Mr Revence Kalibwani the proprietor of Scyfy Technologies, a local information and technology start-up is set to represent Uganda at the 2010 Annual Peer Awards in Finland. The awards are given to the world’s best software developers in recognition of their innovative mobile telecommunication applications and products.  During the awards, nominees like Mr Kalibwani are given an opportunity to showcase their software applications to global investors and mobile telecommunication experts. To know more follow this link: http://www.monitor.co.ug/Business/Technology/-/688612/1005786/-/a1xq25z/-/index.html