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

[warigia bowman]

Dear Eric

I think it is a riff off the band name Dixie Chix

Anyway, since they are the women, if they feel comfortable with that, I
don't think it is an issue.

Yours, Rigia

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Eric M.K Osiakwan <
emko at internetresearch.com.gh> wrote:

>  Not that it is a big deal so feel free to ignore me but i just think the
> "chix" or "chics" thing is a little.....anyway, may be "ladies" or "women"
> at least sounds better to me.
>
> I join with a loud applause for such success.
>
> Eric here
>
>
>   On 9 Nov 2010, at 13:00, Dorcas Muthoni wrote:
>
>   Congratulations are in order for the chix!
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM, <alice at apc.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://afnogchix.blogspot.com/2010/11/all-girls-team-wins-kshs-1-million.html
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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 <http://garage48.org/>. It was the first time the
>> competition was being held in
>> Africa.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/11/01/akirachix-win-kes-1-million-in-ipo48-with-m-farm/
>>
>> For a full breakdown of the results, visit this post at Afrinnovator.com<http://afrinnovator.com/>
>> who also covered IPO48 in detail..
>> Adopted from Strathmore website.
>>
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