[kictanet] All girls team wins top prize for IPO48 Software application development competition

[warigia bowman]

This is fantastic news. Go girls!

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:55 AM, <alice at apc.org> wrote:

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> http://afnogchix.blogspot.com/2010/11/all-girls-team-wins-kshs-1-million.html
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> An all girls team made of two BBIT fourth year students – Lilian Nduati
> and Linda Kwamboka, and two alumni - Jamila Abass and Susan Eve Ogula and
> Catherine Kiguru a developer in Tracom , won the top prize of Kshs 1
> million in the inaugural  IPO48 software application development
> competition hosted by SEP (Strathmore Enterprise Program) at the
> University from 29th to 31st October. The four are members of AkiraChix a
> group of geek girls.
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> The winning team developed an application dubbed M-Farm - an information
> service that focuses on delivering real time information to farmers on
> current market prices of their products. It also aims to bring farmers
> together in a collaborative forum.
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> Essentially, the M-Farm service will help small-scale farmers get price
> information that will help them know where to get the best deal for their
> products through their mobile phones. It fills an information gap
> currently used by middlemen to the detriment of the farmer.
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> The service will also provide farmers with weather alerts, connect with
> other farmers, find nearest farm stores and get help from farm experts.
> M-Farm has simple and easy to use features. It can be accessed in
> Kiswahili language and integrates an Interactive Voice Response (IVR).
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> IPO48 is a boot-camp style initiative whose aim is for developers to build
> new web and mobile services in 48 hours only! It was organized by HumanIPO
> and Garage48.org. It was the first time the competition was being held in
> Africa.
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> Blogger Moses Kemibaro wrote: “the IPO48 was a highly competitive and
> successful event with many great software applications and business
> concepts coming to the fore. Its amazing how much creativity and ingenuity
> was presented there and I found myself thinking more like a venture
> capitalist, rather than observer. One thing however is for sure – many of
> the ideas that did not win will still find suitors and in fact it was
> announced that one already had an Angel Investor in place!” See:
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> http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/11/01/akirachix-win-kes-1-million-in-ipo48-with-m-farm/
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> For a full breakdown of the results, visit this post at Afrinnovator.com
> who also covered IPO48 in detail..
> Adopted from Strathmore website.
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Dr. Warigia Bowman
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The University of Mississippi

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