Kampala

Our next Mobile Monday Kampala Meeting  is on Mapping, and features Dr Michael Lipnick from Harvard’s Brigham and Mothers Hospital, who will speak about his pioneering work in the field of mobile health apps, together with a film presentation by Sean Blaschke from UNICEF and Andrew Kasola and Micheal Tendo from UTL showing their innovative approach to capturing and sending community level information by a USSD application that works on any mobile phone. We will meet at the downstairs conference room at Orange Uganda headquarters on Clement Hill Road starting 5:30 PM.  Seating is limited, so please register early, sending your request to be put on the guest list …

Dear MoMoers, What probably should have been a series of blogs may now become a missive, so please bear with me while I do my best to bring up to date those of you who have not participated at our several recent events. To my mind MoMo should be a home grown movement of people and ideas, born of the faith, vision and courage of those who strive to improve the quality of lives, work and study by self improvement and helping one another, through the development and implementation of mobile applications, using the regular meetings held at a local …

You can download the slides on the links below:

1. Anthrax Brochure

2. CTPH National Anthrax Taskforce

3. Saving tomorrow

Please keep visiting this  website to get more updates. More downloads coming soon……….

“Half the GDP growth in Kenya comes because of the mobile
phone revolution” Safaricom’s Michael Joseph

“The changes brought by mobile phones are both subtle and omnipresent – mobile phone numbers painted above shop doors allow merchants to untether from their stalls; carpentry ads scrawled on road signs turn a craftsman with a phone into an independent, mobile business” Ethan Zuckerman.

The Innovative use of mobile phones in East Africa

For those of you who attended the 31st May 2010 MoMo@UNICEF meeting,it was an extraordinary success. The theme of the meeting was on Mobile health, MHealth for Mother and Child. There were five presentations and they were given on a range of mobile application. Speakers described the proposed solutions for mobile applications to more effectively meet the health care needs of tremendous increase in the number of people in developing countries. The five presentations can be downloaded from here: David Gelvin mobile_monday_presentation Laiton OPENXDATA_DEMO MobileModay mHealth MoMo Presentation sean blaschke MoMoKla-TTC Nayantara CHW Reporting_MobileMonday_V2 

 Here is a link for some of the Monday’s meeting:
http://picasaweb.google.com/terraw/MoMoKlaUNICEF#

Dear MoMokla Members, you can download the pictures taken from some of our MoMoKla meetings:

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Donorland has been littered with pilot projects over the last ten years that took interesting technology and ideas and sought to make them work in the unforgiving African context. All too often they had little idea of what potential users actually wanted and once the funding ended, the water closed over them and that was that. There is now a second generation of ICT4D projects that seem to have learnt the lessons of these early failures. Russell Southwood spoke to Terra Weikel and Sean Blaschke of UNICEF and Bas Hoefman of Text to Change about how they are using technology …

You can view a video of the MoMoKla launch meeting: