[kictanet] Fwd: Winners Announced: V2030 ICT Innovation Awards

Tue Apr 26 07:48:13 EAT 2011

Congratulations Paul, this was a noble initiative, kudos to all the
Winners as well.

Best Regards

On 4/26/11, Paul Kukubo ICT Board <pkukubo at ict.go.ke> wrote:
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>> Press release for immediate release
>> April 21, 2011
>> Winners Announced: v2030 ICT Innovation Awards
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>> Eleven companies received a V2030 ICT Innovation Award at a ceremony held
>> in Diani as part of the Kenya ICT Board's Connected Kenya Summit. The
>> Kenya ICT Board and the Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat invited
>> companies that have developed solutions that drive economic growth and
>> social development as outlined in Kenya's Vision 2030 to participate in
>> the inaugural Vision 2030 ICT Innovation Awards. The Award is proudly
>> co-sponsored by Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP).
>>
>> Over 170 companies participated in the online process. All applications
>> were received on an online platform set up by the Kenya ICT Board that
>> allowed applicants to create an account and fill out their application
>> over time. Of the companies that participated in the Call for
>> Applications, 82 successfully completed the process.
>>
>> The Kenya ICT Board convened a team of seven independent judges
>> representing the ICT private sector, academia, public sector and civil
>> society. The judges began their work on April 13 and reviewed each
>> complete proposal against the criteria outlined in the call for
>> applications. To ensure integrity in the process, Deloitte Consulting are
>> auditing the review process.
>>
>> The winners are:
>> uzanunua.com
>> Sector: Wholesale and Retail Trade
>> Uzanunua.com enables Kenyans to buy and sell goods online. Payments to
>> uzanunua are facilitated by local systems such as m-pesa, zap, yu cash.
>> Online auction and classifieds website, uzanunua.com has since acquired
>> 13,000 members and growing at 200% per annum. The platform is based on
>> ebay and is easy to use and has 3,000 unique visitors per day and growing.
>> Kenyans now have their online auction and classifieds site where they can
>> shop from their place of comfort.
>> Mbetsa Innovations Ltd
>> Sector: Manufacturing
>> Morris Mbetsa, a young Kenyan invented an anti-theft device that uses SMS
>> technology to both block and track car theft. The system brings the whole
>> concept of vehicle security into one's hand thanks to the mobile phone; it
>> enables car-owners to monitor their vehicle from a distance and even be
>> able to completely stop the vehicle. Morris Mbetsa had just graduated from
>> high school when he came up with this security device. The innovation is
>> an entirely Kenyan designed GPRS tracking device..
>> AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NAIROBI
>> Sector: Health Care Delivery
>> The Aga Khan University Hospital have used ICT  to improve their services.
>>  They have used a combination of health management information systems
>> (HMIS)and mobile phone technology to improve health care service delivery.
>>  With a central database accessible to their entire countrywide network
>> branches, patients are served and monitored using the same file number
>> whenever they visit any of Aga Khan Hospital branch. Electronic capturing
>> of patient diagnosis has simplified reporting on the numbers encountered
>> on particular diseases for a given period.
>> Websimba Ltd
>> Sector: Tourism
>> Websimba's Eat Out website and Eat Out Mobile site allows consumers to
>> search for restaurants based on various criteria such as area location,
>> type of cuisine and/or budget.  Users are provided with the most
>> comprehensive restaurant information including opening hours, photos,
>> videos, customer reviews, menus, maps and details of any offers or special
>> events.    The end-user can reserve tables using the online booking engine
>> or by calling our customer services advisors.  For restaurants, the site
>> provides a low cost online presence and allows better preparation as
>> customers are pre-booking rather than walking in.
>> Ushahidi
>> Social Equity
>> Ushahidi is a non-profit technology company  that specializes in
>> developing free and open source software for crowdsourcing, visualization,
>> and interactive mapping.      Ushahidi started as an ad hoc group of
>> technologists and bloggers hammering out software in a couple days, trying
>> to figure out a way to gather more and better information about the
>> post-election violence in Kenya in January 2008.     It has since been
>> used around the world for mapping instances of violence and disaster
>> relief.
>> Horizon Contact Centers Ltd
>> Sector: Business Process Outsourcing/Offshoring
>> Horizon's HK_V2 Platform is a locally developed web based solution similar
>> to a CRM which allows for integration with a soft phone to make outbound
>> calls and update data real-time. Horizon designed and deployed the
>> solution with a dynamic front end that can be customized to meet data
>> requirements, ability to integrate it to a soft phone in order to initiate
>> calls on preview mode from an existing database of contacts or manually
>> inputted and a dynamic back end database.
>> MOBIKASH AFRIKA LIMITED
>> Secotr: Financial Services
>> MobiKash offers an all-in one independent mobile commerce and banking
>> solution, which allows users to perform a wide range of financial
>> transactions using their mobile phone.  It works across all networks and a
>> user can   link up to fifteen bank accounts on a real time basis.  It
>> gives a user total control of their money anytime anywhere.
>> International Livestock Research Institute Sector: Agriculture
>> Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) is a promising and exciting
>> innovation in insurance design that allows the risk-management benefits of
>> insurance to be made available to poor and remote clients. The IBLI
>> product being piloted in Marsabit District aims to provide compensation to
>> insured pastoralists in the event of livestock losses due to severe forage
>> scarcity. Incorporating remotely-sensed vegetation data in its design,
>> delivered via mobile ICT-based transactions platforms, and with
>> experimental extension methods used to educate the remote pastoral
>> herders, the IBLI product boasts many firsts in product development.
>> Space Kenya Networks LTD
>> Sector: Gender, Youth and Vulnerable Groups
>> Whive.com is a Social Media Tools Aggregator that offers a platform for
>> SMS, Facebook, Twitter and Mobile Applications that are built for local
>> use in Kenyan and African settings. Whive offers a variety of services.
>> Whive differs from other platforms because they are localizing mobile
>> applications to all Kenyan communities by making them available in local
>> languages. Starting with Swahili, Sheng and English Whive is seeking to
>> initially target the Kenyan youth with its classifieds application. These
>> applications will also form a basis of lingual translation services of key
>> Kenyan languages
>> Virtual Essence Ltd
>> Education and Training
>> MsingiPACK 2011 E-learning/E-revision Solution is a comprehensive digital
>> supplement for upper primary classes under the New 8-4-4 Syllabus, based
>> 100% on Local Content.    The content has been generated originally   by
>> an Academic Task Force comprising of over 100 teachers, Education
>> Consultants and Curriculum specialists. The tutorials are well structured
>> and sequenced to form a Guided Learning Path while adequately covering
>> everything   that the K.I.E syllabus stipulates, including the newly
>> revised Social Studies syllabus that is now based on the New Constitution
>> of Kenya. The KCPE past papers in the programme have been digitized and
>> fully automated under the copyright authority of Kenya National
>> Examinations Council. With the MsingiPACK now available via Mobile Phones,
>> there is value addition to this gadget.
>> ANNIVERSARY LAB
>> Housing and Urbanisation
>> Robert Mburu incorporates home-made gadgets like the touch switches among
>> other bridge detectors to displays number of intruders on a digital
>> display and repulses them with a discharge 10000 volts. The system is
>> linked to a camera that takes over all electrical gadgets in the house
>> including your TV set  and records intrusion at instances, it comes with
>> an 8hrs power back up,. The alert system is connected to the GSM Texts
>> owner and if an SMS goes unread, it calls the owner of premise and if not
>> available calls two other sets of numbers. The system can also take up
>> commands and execute them when texted eg 'switch on lights'.
>>
>> For more information please contact:
>> Kaburo Kobia
>> Kenya ICT Board
>> Project Manager, Local Digital Content
>> e: kkobia at ict.go.ke
>> m: 0729466260
>> About Kenya ICT Board
>>
>> The Kenya ICT Board was established by HE President Mwai Kibaki, as a
>> state corporation under the State Corporations Act Cap. 446 on 19th
>> February 2007.
>>
>> The Kenya ICT Board's mission is to champion and actively enable Kenya to
>> adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and
>> infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment.
>>
>> Its vision is that Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub by 2030.
>>
>> The Kenya ICT Board mandate is to:
>> Market: Positioning and promoting Kenya as an ICT destination (locally and
>> internationally), especially promoting Business process Outsourcing (BPO)
>> and Offshoring.
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>> capacity and funding for anchor implementation of ICT projects for
>> development.
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>> projects in development.
>>
>> Contact
>> For more information or to book interviews please contact:
>> Kaburo Kobia
>> 0729466260
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>> Sincerely,
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>> Kaburo Kobia
>> Project Manager, Local Digital Content
>> Kenya ICT Board
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