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Kenya’s first ever AppCircus event was held on Saturday, hosted by AkiraChix and the iHub. AppCircus is a global traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps. Twelve finalists were given the chance to pitch their mobile applications to the eager audience. The overall winner was Msema Kweli, a mobile app that helps keep [...]
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The quality, the originality, the utility and the amount of apps submitted to the inaugural AppCircus is great! Kenya is clearly on track to be a leader in the development of mobile apps. If you want to attend this unique event, you just need to be registered to book your spot. It’s this Saturday, September 10, from [...]
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Akirachix and The Kuyu Project have embarked on a digital camp for a few girls from Precious Blood High School Riruta. The training focuses on using digital technology and social media tools to effect social change.
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The deadline for the best travelling showcase of creative and innovative apps has been extended to the 31 August.
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After the talk the ladies were divided into groups to come up with applications that can be turned into profitable businesses. They were then supposed to pitch the applications to the other teams. After the pitching session, the teams voted for the best app, the catch was that they could not vote for their own idea. We hope to highlight some of those working apps on this blog in the near future.
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A highlight of the ceremony was the presentation of the students’ final projects. The students used their newly acquired programming, web design and entrepreneurship skills to create websites that offered innovative solutions to relevant local problems. For example, “Soap ya Mtaa” website created a platform allowing local soap and detergent makers to reach a wider market through the internet. Mr. Obath was so impressed by the caliber of the presentations that he offered to follow up with the IT sector of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance to investigate which of the projects could be turned into real implementations.
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iHub and Akirachix will be hosting the travelling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps on the 10th of September 2011.
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Yesterday I attended the Wireless Wednesday held at the Mlab on Wednesday(dah!) lunchtimes. I arrived thirty minutes late so I missed the beginning. The speaker was Gustav Praekelt, the founder of Praekelt Consulting and the Praekelt Foundation.
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In September 2010, AkiraChix embarked on a community training initiative that involved offering free mentorship and education to disadvantaged girls in the society by providing IT and life skills to help improve their living standards and achieve sustainable income. This is in line with the AkiraChix goal of enlightening and increasing the number of women [...]
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We will be having the AkiraChix meet up this month on 30 July.
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Last evening, a large number of members of the *iHub Community had the privilege of listening to Google’s Vice President of Location and Local services, Marissa Mayer. She was hosted by the *iHub for a fireside chat, moderated by Ushahidi Co-founder, *iHub founder and AfriGadget founder Erik Hersman.
Marissa was accompanied by 32 Associate Product Managers. These are [...]
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AkiraChix
This week’s Mobile Monday was the third and final part in the Mobile App showcase by local content and application developers. Most of the speakers have put their apps on the Nokia Ovi store. For people to effectively utilize technology in Kenya we need to emphasize the importance of Local Digital Content that is relevant [...]
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Women @Google Africa together with AkiraChix hosted a Women in Tech Cocktail at the iHub this past Tuesday. event was well attended by Women technology professionals, students and enthusiasts who gathered at the iHub to network and learn from each other. The main guests of the event were two Google laidies, Olga Arara, Google Kenya’s [...]
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AkiraChix
Women @Google Africa together with AkiraChix will be hosting a Women in Tech Cocktail at the iHub. Apart from the food, the event will include a Heart to Heart talk on what it means to be a woman engineer and how to stay on top of the game. The event will be graced by :-
The [...]
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Pivot25 is an mlab initiative to bring focus on the Mobile developer and entrepreneur community in East Africa.m:lab East Africa is a consortium of four organizations aiming to be a leader in identifying, nurturing and helping to build sustainable enterprises in the knowledge economy.
Pivot25 held a conference at Ole Sereni Hotel along Mombasa road on [...]
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The mLab is a business incubator for companies developing mobile applications. The MC of the day was Ken Mwenda the Managing Director of Emobolis. The goal of this project is to create sustainable businesses in the knowledge economy. The launch was attended by staff from Nokia, World Wide Web foundation, University of Nairobi, Kenya ICT [...]
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MagMe, a Computer Aid ‘Adaptive Software 4BVI Project’ – This project aims to produce an open source Windows-based screen magnifier that will run from a USB pen drive and work in line with the NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader.
Today at the iHub we are having a Hackathon for the MagMe (Magnify Me) Project. Magme [...]
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Joe Mucheru visited iHub on Friday evening for a Fireside Chat. If you passed him on the street, you would have no idea that the youthful unassuming man is the African regional lead of one of the most prolific companies on earth. Joe has had a lot of success pioneering Google’s presence in Africa for the last [...]
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AkiraChix
This week’s mobile Monday was more focused on mobile development and user interface design on the mobile phone.
User Interface by Marco Myllyluoma of Nokia
Isn’t it interesting that Apple has 3% of the mobile market share but took 40% of the profit in the industry.
Here are some of the things Marco mentioned that we should consider [...]
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How would you design and implement courseware for students who have suffered brain injuries? Or a mobile interface for busy people to track their blog entries on the website of a Kenyan social movement?
Bridget McGraw has been creating interactive digital media since 1992 and will chronicle how “user experience” or UX has been at the [...]
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AkiraChix
On Monday, 4th March, there was a fireside chat by Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communications. The iHub was packed to capacity and full of expectation. Many of those in attendance were students, developers and various players in the industry who would not ordinarily get an audience with the minister. It [...]
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John Waibochi is the CEO for Virtual City. He has been in the Tech industry for 11 years. He studied Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University. His first job was selling HF and VHF radios. He worked in the telcom industry and the data industry. He quit his job out of braveness or stupidity with a capital of 300, 000 KES.
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The Akirachix meet up was held on 19th March at 10 a.m. On the menu was a talk on security. We had a speaker from industry, Sadik Makii CEO of Absolute Security and Idd Salim an IT security expert in his own right.
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AkiraChix
On international Womens day Akirachix had the opportunity to attend a reception organized by Us ambassador Michael Ranneberger,this was an opportunity for the gals to meet with influential women in our society I.e Julia Ojiambo,Gina Din Kariuki,Esther Pasaris to name but a few.
But the Highlight of the night was the Akirachix being honored by the [...]
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AkiraChix
Yet another Mobile Monday, #fullhouse.
Today is looking really hot, and no i mean hot with applications. Its always hot that way, one way or another, am a sucker for innovations and inventions. Moving on, is that media in the house? Yeeiii am gonna be on TV!! Who am i kidding? its awesome looking at all [...]
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AkiraChix
The Inoorero University boot camp is going down from the 17th -19th March at the Inoorero University. I was at the boot camp today and this is a summary of what went down. The boot camp was opened by Henry Thairu, VC, Inooro University; he encouraged the students to make local applications.
Jessica Colaco, iHub manager and [...]
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AkiraChix
Larry Wall, Violinist, programming machine, creator of the PERL programming language was at the iHub on 24th February. He talked about his experience as a programmer and the journey that was the development of the PERL language. The talk was inspirational for any programmer. In response to a question posed by an attendee about whether [...]
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AkiraChix
Today in the house of Mobile Monday, Akirachix are always representing. Of cause you gotta love these gals, you should see them, one interview to another, a few administrative tasks here and there but hey, its MoMo again, whats up today?
Apparently, lately i have been looking into cloud computing, i hear its gonna put the [...]
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At last!
Good news to all the ladies that kept asking how to join Akirachix. Well, all you have to do is fill out this form. As simple as that!
You will be sent more details on membership and events from now on. We will keep you posted.
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The Gals on Maps is going down at the iHub. There is a record number of ladies at the iHub; more than 100. After some ice breaking activities, there was a brief introduction into maps and map maker. The introduction into mapmaker was done by Jackie Rajuai. The gals are now plotting points into the Google map.
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0900h -Arrive at venue, meet and greet
1000h – Presentation by event leader, include overview of focus area for mapping
1100h – Begin hands on map session: Areas of mapping interest include schools, health centers, market centers, community
development projects, restaurants, roads etc.
1300h - Quick break for questions/group discussion, refreshments
1400h - Continue mapping
1700h -Wrap [...]
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AkiraChix
Dear Ladies ,
Do you want to change the world? Join us at iHub on 12 February 2011 for a Mapping Party using Google Map Maker!
There are places around the globe that still do not have access to high quality maps, but we can change this using Google Map Maker.
We are going to be working together [...]
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Mobile Health Application
Sarah and Emma are two students pursuing their masters in Sweden. If someone has a skin problem, a user takes a picture of the affected area and sends it to a doctor who diagnoses the problem. In Sweden the payment is done through Google Checkout. It has been in use in Sweden for [...]
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Africa is not what it used to be or are people viewing Africa differently?
Dr. Ting Chen, the chairman of Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees was in the iHub to give a talk on Wikipedia. He is in the country to attend the official launch of the Wikipedia for schools project as well as a celebration [...]
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AkiraChix
At the end of the month of October and beginning of November 2010, the Akirachix team together with the students taking part in the Akirachix led training program experienced a super low moment. Classes had to come to an end due to lack of learning space and computers. We had to do with the few [...]
