Greetings All.

Last Monday we had another MoMo event at COSTECH innovation space, and the theme was “Mobile for Rural Development”. We had three presenters: one from mobile network provider Mr Mukund Chopra (Innovation manager from Tigo), another one was Mr Peter Ulanga from UCSAF and Mr Eric Mutta (Apps4Africa winner).

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The first presentation was from Mr Peter Ulanga, he talked on development of communications infrastructures in rural and underserved areas. Among of his agenda were Rural areas, Applications and services, Beyond Mobile. Also he talked on the plans and initiatives they have in order to overcome the existing situations in terms of infrastructures in rural areas. After the presentation, participants asked him various questions, and some of them commenting and give out their views concerning to the presentation.

Here is Mr Ulanga’s presentation in YouTube:

Mr Mukund Chopra from Millicom (Tigo) presented some initiatives that has been taken by Tigo in order to increase the number of connected people specifically in rural areas. In order to reach this goal, they have come up with the new product known as Tigo Mimi. This is a SIM-less service whereby people are able to make/receive calls, send/receive sms without possessing mobile phone. They investigated that majority of people in rural areas are unable to possess their own mobile phone due to low income, poverty. People asked him some questions on the issue of security to the users of that new product, and some suggestions and comments.

Mr Chopra’s presentation and slides will be published when we get approval from Tigo.

The last presenter was Mr Eric Mutta. He started by giving out the meaning of being developed and not developed. Also he allowed people to contribute on that definition. He defines development in terms of having information. After seeing the importance of information to the aspect of development, he came up of an idea of having a platform so that people can contribute information they have. This includes asking and answering questions. He termed this as a crowdsourcing. As with other presenters, participants asked him questions and gave out their contributions regarding this idea.

Here is Mr Mutta’s presentation in YouTube:

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Next Mobile Monday Dar will be on March 5th, don’t miss it!

Greetings,

How can the mobile phone industry best contribute to the village, district and national development?  What are the roles of ICT community in rural development especially with regards to the exploitation of widespread mobile networks coverage? Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH presents the opportunity in discussing and debating on how mobile phones can speed up the rate of rural development.

The next event will be on 6th February, 2012 at COSTECH innovation space.

The Panel will include three speakers:

Mr. Peter Ulanga
Chief Executive Officer of UCAF, they are responsible for funding projects for building mobile networks in rural areas where it is not financially sustainable for mobile operators. Peter has over 15 years experience in ICT sector, he previously worked at TCRA with responsibility on ICT development, telecom standards, and management of National Numbering Plan.

Mr. Mukund Chopra
Innovation Fellow from TiGO, he will be talking about the roles of mobile network operators in fostering rural development.

Mr. Eric Mutta
The Apps4Africa 2011 winner for climate challenge (http://www.apps4africa.org/blog/2012/01/14/east-africa-winners-announced-at-villages-in-action-2012/).  Eric has several years experience in building mobile application aimed for rural development. He will be talking about crowd sourced knowledge exchange over mobiles for rural development.

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

Best Regards,
The MoMo Dar organizing team

Greetings All,

In the last MoMoDar for this year, we dive into the possibilities and debate of open data and linking information to mobile mapping tools!

The next event will be on 5th December,2011 at COSTECH.

Our exciting speakers for the evening are:
Mr Joseph Ngwegwe, Tanzania Program Manager of Twaweza.
Joseph will introduce us into Open Government Partnership, which Tanzania entered just last week, and he’ll highlight some ways how technology can enhance openness.

Mr Edwin Mugerezi, Managing Director of InfoBridge Consultants Ltd.
Edwin will present mobile solutions for mapping media content and points of interest with GPS positioning.

Mr Msilikale Msilanga and Mr Reginald Tesha, students at Ardhi University.
Reginald and Tesha will their experiences of a recent mapping project at Tandale, where their collected data of the unmapped community buildings and services together with the community members into OpenStreetMap (search for Tandale). They did the project together with World Bank and Twaweza and it’s planned to be expanded to larger regions in Dar and Tanzania. Read the World Bank blog story for background.

Tanzania Commision for Science and Technology
Kijitonyama, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 6:00 PM

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

Book your free ticket here now.
See you there.

Greetings All,

It has been a while since our last meetup, well a lot of good things have been happening like Barcamp Tanzania, Developer Hackathons, Startup Tanzania and the launch of the Innovations hub and co-working space at COSTECH.

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam is delighted to kick off the event calender for the just launched innovation and co-working space this Monday 7th November 2011 with the theme, Battle of the Mobile Platforms.

The phone market currently has a number of mobile platforms like Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, J2ME, WebOS and list goes on and on. We shall be discussing how to choose a platform and also indulge is real world demos of some Mobile Applications.

Book your free ticket here now.

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.
See you there.

With Regards
Billy
On Behalf of MoMo Dar
+255 754 710 939
http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz

Greetings ,

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH and Elearning Africa invites you to another life changing evening on Thursday, 26th May 2011 with the theme, Innovative use of mobiles for Learning.

The panel will include experts on the subject both from Africa and beyond, These include:

Prof John Traxler
Director of the Learning Lab and Professor of Mobile Learning at the University of Wolverhampton.

Riitta Vanska
senior manager, mobile and learning solutions, with Nokia

Ms. Magreth Mushi
Open University of Tanzania.

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

For More information about E-learning Africa visit http://www.elearning-africa.com/

See you there.

With Regards

Anthony
On Behalf of MoMo Dar
+255 754 710 939
http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH presents another life changing evening on Monday, 7th March 2011 with the theme, Innovative use of Mobiles in Marketing and Advertising

The Panel will include representatives of some of Tanzania’s market leaders in Mobile Marketing , namely:

Presenters:

Bongo Live
http://www.bongolive.co.tz

PUSH Mobile
http://www.push.co.tz

MASOKO Tanzania
http://www.masokotz.com

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

GET YOUR FREE TICKET NOW Please bring enough business cards

See you there.

With Regards

Anthony
On Behalf of MoMo Dar
+255 754 710 939
http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz

State of Mobile Banking and Payments in Tanzania.

Greetings and a Happy New Year to you ,

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH presents another life changing evening this monday, 17th January 2011 with the theme, State of Mobile banking and Payments in Tanzania.

The Panel will include representatives of some of Tanzania’s market leaders in Mobile Banking, namely:

Please note that the event starts at 1800Hrs so please keep time.

BOOK TICKET NOW

See you there.

With Regards

Anthony

On Behalf of MoMo Dar

+255 754 710 939

http://www.mobilemonday.co.tz

Please bring enough business cards

Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH, ICT@INNOVATION, UCC and FOSSFA presents another life changing Monday evening on 6th December 2010 with the theme, TRANFORMING INNOVATIONS TO BUSINESS

The Panel will include three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, namely:

LEILA JANAH is the founder of Samasource (www.samasource.org), a social business that connects women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource has generated over $550,000 for women, youth, and refugee workers in nine countries around the world.
PAUL BRAGIEL is the co-founder of I/O ventures.  Previously he co-founded Lyoa, a product bringing forums into the 21st Century; Mentor, the first location based social network; and Paragon Five, a game development studio specializing in console and mobile with offices in Chicago and Poland.
RUSSEL SIMMONS was the co-founder and CTO of Yelp (www.yelp.com), a website that helps people find local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics. Yelp has grown to over 38 million monthly users and was valued in early 2010 at over $500 million.  Prior to Yelp, Russ was one of the early employees and lead software architect at PayPal.
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Friday,5th November marked another successful day in the history of Mobile Monday both globally and in Tanzania, a new chapter was added to the MoMo Family of more than 109 chapters around the world. The launch of MoMo was at the home of MoMo in Dar COSTECH[Commission for Science and Technology]. The guest of honour was the C.E.O of Mobile Monday Global,Jari Tammisto from Finland.

Other people on the panel included the Director General of COSTECH Dr.Hassan Mshinda,Amina Lukanza from Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam and Joachim Mangilima a software developer.The event started at 5:30pm with Dr Hassan giving the opening remarks and introducing Jari who gave a history of Mobile Monday and show cased a video of Mobile Monday events around the world.The crowd then fired Jari with a number of questions regarding Mobile Monday which he all answered very well.

Amina Lukanza of the Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam team then went through a presentation showing the year plan of MoMo Dar activities some of the topics to be discussed in the coming months include Mobile Marketing,Mobiles 4 Development, M-learning, Business Financing and Investment plus other activities like Developer competitions, training and Mobile Innovation Awards were also not left out.

Lastly we had demo from Joachim Mangilima showing a low cost mobile phone based data collection system which leverages GPRS and J2me technology to provide a cost effective alternative to computers in the field.The application can be used to collect any data from the field and submit it to a server.From the server the data can then be  analyzed for generating reports.

Any company that needs to use this technology please contact us and we shall put you in touch with the developer

It was histroy in the making last week when professionals in the Tanzania Mobile and I.C.T sector met at the inagural Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam (a.k.a MoMoDar) meet up hosted by Commision for Science and Technology (COSTECH) at their headquaters. We were very happy about the the turn up of 70 people. We thank all those who attended and urge you to keep your eyes on the website for the next meetup which will also be our official launch in November.

The meeting started at 6:30pm with welcome remarks from Dr.Hassan Mshinda the Director General of COSTECH,

This was followed by a presentation on the “Mobile Monday Concept” by Anthony Kigombola

At about 7:10pm Dr.Raphael Mmasi, Director of Information and Documentation at COSTECH gave a presentation on “Trends of ICT development in Tanzania”

Developers were represented by Mr.Kiiza Mtungi Co-Founder of the Value Added Service start up Dar411Mobile who gave a presentation on “SEMA” , what he discribed as the gap between the people without internet or internet enabled phones and social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Last on the Agenda was an open discussion on the future of Mobile Monday in Dar-es-Salaam, many stake holders welcomed the idea saying

Mobile Monday is a tool that is going to bring together the local Mobile community to embark on strategies that benefit the country in this competitive era where a Mobile is a Key to Peoples lives.

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