<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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><div><br></div><div>I join with a loud applause for such success.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric here</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 9 Nov 2010, at 13:00, Dorcas Muthoni wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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">alice@apc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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">Garage48.org</a>. It was the first time the competition was being held in<br>
Africa.<br>
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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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For a full breakdown of the results, visit this post at <a href="http://Afrinnovator.com">Afrinnovator.com</a><br>
who also covered IPO48 in detail..<br>
Adopted from Strathmore website.<br>
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