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

[Evelyn Rono]

It looks like we all have different names for the Ladies all over the world.

Whichever name - Congratulations to those promising intellectuals of ours.  All the best girls!

Evelyn
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eric M.K Osiakwan 
  To: evelyn.rono at kdn.co.ke 
  Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:06 PM
  Subject: Re: [kictanet] All girls team wins top prize for IPO48 Softwareapplication development competition


  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. 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
      who also covered IPO48 in detail..
      Adopted from Strathmore website.


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