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Dar-es-Salaam

MoMo Dar-es-Salaam – May 6th – ICT and Tourism

Join us on Monday, 6th May 2013 for Mobile Monday Dar event. This month we are going to discuss about the uses of ICT in Tanzanian Tourism sector. More details and Registration Here. Speaker will include: – Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) representative – Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism (MNRT) representative – Dickson Ng’ang’a – From Zalego (Mobile Apps for Tourism – Demo) – Paul Shilla – Swahili Stores (Online platform to sell art products – Demo) – Goodluck Akyoo – Singira (Online store for selling art products – Demo) – Vinjari.com – One stop destination for travelers interested with …

Seattle

MoMo Seattle – May 6th – Developer Opportunities with AT&T

Join Mobile Monday Seattle & AT&T on May 6th for networking, an informative panel and to learn about developer opportunities with AT&T If you are a developer, don’t miss this panel and time with AT&T executives. Our experts will tackle Mobile Developer Trends: What are the must-have tools and trending languages in mobile app development? What cloud services and API’s should be on every app developer’s radar? What will be HTML5’s impact in the coming year? Join us for an interactive discussion and audience Q&A on mobile app marketplace. WHEN: Monday, May 6, 2013 TIME: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. …

Detroit

MoMo Detroit – May 13th – Rise of Open Source Mobile Platforms

The mobile OS war has been won. Android and iOS have captured the market. Windows Phone and BB10 are battling for market share. However, just when you thought it was over, several open source mobile OS platforms have begun to emerge on the scene. Could one of them be the new Android? This month’s event will focus on alternative Mobile operating systems including the new FirefoxOS, as well as providing information on Ford Motor Company’s OpenXC API. Mozilla’s new mobile operating system, FirefoxOS, has been designed from Day 1 to show the world that the web can be the platform. …

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of April 22nd – 2013

Ya just gotta love the cheeky, make Can do, attitude of our global chapter founders. Of course we ‘usually’ target gathering dates on the 1st night to kick-off the week in style.. then again – sometimes, maybe not. Looking at the line-up below; we have Tel Aviv running on Sunday, with special guests in town, the folks in Vietnam will be gaming back-to-back in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi on Weds and Thurs respectively and rounding out the pack Trivandrum does MobileCamp at Technopark on Sat. the 27th. We have a full slate of gigs tonite from Accra to Slovenija = All Hail the MObilistas.. 😎

Munich

MoMo Munich – May 6th – NFC – the Future of Mobile Payment?

Mobile Payment has been a huge success. Well, not yet in Germany or even Europe, no, not yet. But in Africa, e.g. in Kenya Safaricom’s M-Pesa has seen a widespread adoption. Still, M-Pesa’s success does not rely on NFC. Then FeliCa (started in 2004 and based on the FeliCa smart card system) in Japan NFC was and is hugely successful – though it was based on RFID and has just recently moved towards NFC. Reading the press releases of the Mobile World Congress and of the movers and shakers of the payment industry more than less seem to believe that …

Jakarta

MoMo Jakarta – April 22nd – Mobile Money Services in Indonesia

Indonesia as a country has a competitive and stable financial system, however majority of the people still have little or no access at all to banking services. Recent World Bank data shows that only 20% of people above 15-year-old have access to banking services, this is behind our ASEAN neighbours. Every one believes that mobile, Indonesia being a country with a very high mobile penetration, could address this gap… offering mobile money services for the unbanked and the underserved segments. There are a couple of recently launched mobile money services in Indonesia, so on this MobileMonday networking Event we are …

Singapore

MoMo Singapore – May 6th – Rise and Fall and Rise of the Operators!

An illustrious panel has been set the challenging topic of discerning whether or not the Operator (as we know them) is dead! Much like the Roman Empire of lore, despite some well reported up’s and down’s the Operators have long held sway in the tumultuous Mobile World we all inhabit. But, with a host of OTT providers snapping at their heels and WiFi disruption high on the list of must-have’s for every major city, that World has changed beyond recognition. Our panel of industry leaders will ponder selected questions and offer their views on this brave New World. Is the …

Kampala

MoMo Kamapala – April 29th – The Power of Tech for mHealth

You are cordially invited to participate at our next MoMo mHealth meeting to be hosted by Hive Colab Monday 29th April starting 5:30 PM. Mobile phone ownership by health facility workers is quickly becoming universal. With advances in the electronic management of human resources and powerful SMS communications tools, it is now possible to eliminate the traditional bottlenecks of distance and time. Whether mobilizing health workers for an immunization campaign, polling them on whether the most recent delivery of medicines arrived, or simply connecting them with their District supervisors to answer basic questions, mobile phones have already changed the way in …

Ann Arbor

MoMo Ann Arbor – May 15th – Google I/O Extended

We are partnering with the Google Developer Group Ann Arbor Android to bring you the popular Google I/O conference right here in Ann Arbor via live stream. Please note that this special event will be at a different venue than our regular Mobile Monday meetings! But it is just down the street and around the corner, so not that far away. Come hang out with other Android developers and watch the live stream of Google I/O Android events. We’ll start with the keynote on Wednesday at noon, and switch to various Android sessions throughout the remainder of the conference. Where …

Ann Arbor

MoMo Ann Arbor – May 6th – iOS: In-App Purchase and Monetizing

In March we covered In-App Purchase on Android. In May, Samir Tout of EMU will cover it on the iOS side. Presentation Overview: In early 2011, Samir released an educational app (iLearn Languages) that teaches people the alphabets of multiple languages, along with examples, games, & quizzes. In Mid-2012, Samir released an indie shoot’em up game, called Galactic Ninja. Then, in late 2012, he started working on a Lite version of that game using In-App Purchases (IAP). Samir will demo Galactic Ninja Lite, which he’s about to release as well as parts of iLearn Languages, which he plans to roll …