iHub By John Kieti / October 28, 2011
Free Mobile Application Development Training at AITEC East Africa Summit
The AITEC East Africa Summit on ICT will be on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd Novemer 2011 at Oshwal Centre in Nairobi. The conference is intended to be “a multi-faceted event that will draw together the many strands of a vibrant growth market, underpinning high-level business-to-business services with widespread consumer engagement in modern mobile applications and electronics”. The event targets both businesses and consumers with an aim to fast-track East Africa’s emergence as a world-class information-based economic region.
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit; 2-3 November 2011; Oshwal Centre - Nairobi
Attending the conference is FREE OF CHARGE. It will have three tracks namely :- Cloud Computing World, Data Security World and Mobile Applications World. The Mobile applications track includes a mobile applications pavilion where over 20 developers and entrepreneurs will showcase their mobile applications and services. The plenary sessions include a line up of reknown speakers such as Ushahidi and iHub’s Erik Hersman, Web Foundation’s Franco Papeschi, Ken Mwenda from eMobilis and John Waibochi from multiple award winning Virtual City. Other Speakers will be the ICT Board’s Paul Kukubo, Pesapal’s Agosta Liko among others.
As mobile innovation partners, m:lab East Africa and iHub will be facilitating to showcase some of East Africa’s most promising mobile applications and services at the mobile pavilion. In addition, m:lab East Africa will be conducting short one hour trainings on various mobile application development platforms and concepts. The objective of the short trainings is “to offer 1 hour introductory training sessions for sharing key concepts on where to start and what to consider in developing mobile applications and services in East Africa”
The program below applies for the FREE one hour primer sessions :-
Day 1: Wednesday 2nd November 2011
| Topic | Time | Facilitator |
| Connecting your brand to the Millions | 11.00 – 12.00pm | Nokia |
| iOS – Developing for the iPhone/iPad | 12.30 – 1.30pm | Will Mutua |
| J2ME – Developing for the feature phone | 2.30 – 3.30pm | Dickson Nganga |
| Developing and Deploying SMS services | 4.00 – 500pm | Eric Mutuku |
Day 2: Thursday 3rd November 2011
| Topic | Time | Facilitator |
| Developing for Android | 11.00 – 12.00pm | Dickson Nganga |
| Developing for the Mobile Web | 12.30 – 1.30pm | Eric Mutuku |
| User experience considerations for mobile start-ups – A taster | 2.30 – 3.30pm | Franco Papeschi |
| Developing and Deploying USSD Services | 4.00 – 5.00pm | Eric Mutuku |
The short training primers are also aimed at helping aspiring mobile application developers to better prepare to apply for m:lab East Africa’s competitive four month long mobile application developer training program. Currently a group of 20 trainees are undertaking the second wave of such trainings subsidized by a grant from World Bank/infoDev. The third wave of training is expected to start in January 2012 and the call for applications will be made on the website www.mlab.co.ke in December 2011. For more information on the training, interested parties may write to training <at>mlab.co.ke or to tweet @mlabeastafrica.
Author : John Kieti
John Kieti is the Lead at m:lab East Africa. He is an exponent for mobile entrepreneurship and an experienced m4d professional. John is passionate about the growth of East Africa's knowledge economy. He holds an MBA and BSc in Computer Science. He also occasionally shares his thoughts about East Africa's knowledge economy on his blog - gmeltdown.com
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