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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It looks like we all have different names for the
Ladies all over the world.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whichever name - Congratulations to those promising
intellectuals of ours. All the best girls!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Evelyn</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=evelyn.rono@kdn.co.ke
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:06
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [kictanet] All girls team
wins top prize for IPO48 Softwareapplication development competition</DIV>
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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>Eric here</DIV>
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<DIV>On 9 Nov 2010, at 13:00, Dorcas Muthoni wrote:</DIV><BR
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<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
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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">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><BR>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
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