<div>Dear Eric</div>
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<div>I think it is a riff off the band name Dixie Chix</div>
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<div>Anyway, since they are the women, if they feel comfortable with that, I don't think it is an issue. </div>
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<div>Yours, Rigia<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Eric M.K Osiakwan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emko@internetresearch.com.gh">emko@internetresearch.com.gh</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I join with a loud applause for such success.</div>
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<div class="h5">Congratulations are in order for the chix!<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org" target="_blank">alice@apc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><br><br><a href="http://afnogchix.blogspot.com/2010/11/all-girls-team-wins-kshs-1-million.html" target="_blank">http://afnogchix.blogspot.com/2010/11/all-girls-team-wins-kshs-1-million.html</a><br>
<br>An all girls team made of two BBIT fourth year students – Lilian Nduati<br>and Linda Kwamboka, and two alumni - Jamila Abass and Susan Eve Ogula and<br>Catherine Kiguru a developer in Tracom , won the top prize of Kshs 1<br>
million in the inaugural IPO48 software application development<br>competition hosted by SEP (Strathmore Enterprise Program) at the<br>University from 29th to 31st October. The four are members of AkiraChix a<br>group of geek girls.<br>
<br>The winning team developed an application dubbed M-Farm - an information<br>service that focuses on delivering real time information to farmers on<br>current market prices of their products. It also aims to bring farmers<br>
together in a collaborative forum.<br><br>Essentially, the M-Farm service will help small-scale farmers get price<br>information that will help them know where to get the best deal for their<br>products through their mobile phones. It fills an information gap<br>
currently used by middlemen to the detriment of the farmer.<br><br>The service will also provide farmers with weather alerts, connect with<br>other farmers, find nearest farm stores and get help from farm experts.<br>M-Farm has simple and easy to use features. It can be accessed in<br>
Kiswahili language and integrates an Interactive Voice Response (IVR).<br><br>IPO48 is a boot-camp style initiative whose aim is for developers to build<br>new web and mobile services in 48 hours only! It was organized by HumanIPO<br>
and <a href="http://garage48.org/" target="_blank">Garage48.org</a>. It was the first time the competition was being held in<br>Africa.<br><br>Blogger Moses Kemibaro wrote: “the IPO48 was a highly competitive and<br>successful event with many great software applications and business<br>
concepts coming to the fore. Its amazing how much creativity and ingenuity<br>was presented there and I found myself thinking more like a venture<br>capitalist, rather than observer. One thing however is for sure – many of<br>
the ideas that did not win will still find suitors and in fact it was<br>announced that one already had an Angel Investor in place!” See:<br><a href="http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/11/01/akirachix-win-kes-1-million-in-ipo48-with-m-farm/" target="_blank">http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/11/01/akirachix-win-kes-1-million-in-ipo48-with-m-farm/</a><br>
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