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Etisalat Nigeria – Competitive And Innovative. Praised by ALTON Boss

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The Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has commended Etisalat Nigeria, for spurring competition in the industry.

Mr. Gbenga Adebayo, Chairman of the Association, noted that Etisalat is stirring competition as well as setting the pace with  innovative products in the industry.

 

“Etisalat’s consistent effort targeted at stirring competition is laudable. That your products and services have set you apart for innovation is never in doubt, we can only request that you continue to provide best quality services at affordable prices for Nigerians thereby staying true to the very essence of your exciting 0809ja brand,” he said.

 

Adebayo also noted that number portability, quality of service, interconnection rate, market competition amongst others are salient issues which the telecoms industry had to intensify efforts at resolving.

Twitter via SMS Looks Promising and This Could Be Ad Haven. Anyone Interested to Partner

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It seems the world is moving towards the mobile at a rate that even the traditional web platform could be under severe competition. Indian SMS GupShup is growing at unbelievable rate. The Kenyan Jumuika Mobile that we discussed few days ago is also promising, if well funded. We think this ecosystem has many promises.

 

Fasmicro, our parent company, is looking for a partner for this exciting development. Contact info@fasmicro.com

 

SMS GupShup, an SMS based  Twitter-like service in India is announcing a number of new milestones today, including that it  is processing over 2 billion messages per month (up from 480 million messages a month a year ago) and is adding over 1 million members per month.

 

Jumuika Mobile is a Kenyan based mobile marketing company founded in 2009.  Jumuika is a service that pays you each time you receive SMS ads on your phone. We also pay you when your friends or friends of your friends receive these SMS’s. What’s more? The SMS will be of your specific interests and delivered to your phone at the time you choose.

 

Jumuika is an opt-in (permission-based) mobile advertising service is owned and operated by Jumuika Media solutions, a company based in Kenya. Jumuika Media solutions provides technology-based marketing solutions to small and large organizations within East Africa. Our unique platform and industry expertise provide the tools and knowledge for your business to open a personalized communication channel with new and existing customers. This method of targeted, permission-based, context-driven marketing has been proven to yield great results! How it worksRegister with Jumuika.co.ke. Enter your mobile number, choose the categories/interests that you wish to receive ads about, and specify the number of ads and the time you wish to receive them and you can keep yourself informed wherever you are!

 

Kickstarter Is Two Years – My Roommate and Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen Doing Well

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I want to congratulate Perry Chen, the CEO of Kickstarter who was my room mate in TED 2010. It is amazing how this young company is firing on all cylinders. The numbers released today are very great. Congratulations Perry. It is great speaking with you – get the numbers up….always.

 

 

“Kickstarter is a way to break beyond the traditional methods — loans, investment, industry deals, grants — to discover that we can offer each other value through creation without a middleman dictating the product and terms.” — Why Kickstarter? blog post, April 29, 2009

 

Two years ago today on April 28, 2009, Kickstarter launched. There was no party, little fanfare. Two of the first projects were launched by us. There were blog posts here and there, but for the most part our debut flew below the radar.

 

Some great early projects brought momentum — Allison Weiss, Kind of Bloop, Designing Obama. Each project seemed to inspire three more. And backing a project was fun. In exchange there were updates from the road, thoughtful rewards, a story to share. Every project was a quest to do something exciting, something meaningful. Everyone got to play a part.

 

It’s been an amazing beginning. We’ve met so many incredible people, been a part of this. We couldn’t ask for more.

 

To celebrate our second birthday we’ve decided to open up the vaults. We’ve dug deep into our dashboard to share pretty much every metric from Kickstarter’s first two years. The numbers and charts tell the story far better than we could. We hope you enjoy.

 

Written: Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Management, What Is It Good For? Peter Drucker Essay Contest

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PETER DRUCKER SOCIETY EUROPE LAUNCHES ESSAY CONTEST

The Peter Drucker Society Europe (PDSE) launches the “2nd Global Peter Drucker Challenge”, an essay contest for young managers, entrepreneurs und students until the age of 35. The authors of the top three essays will be flown to Vienna and invited to actively participate in panels and breakouts at the “3rd Global Peter Drucker Forum 2011” in Vienna on November 3 and 4. In addition, up to 40 authors of high quality essays will get free access to the conference. The essay contest has the overarching theme.

MANAGEMENT, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

and has as its starting point the poor reputation the term management has acquired in recent times as senior managers around the world have hit the headlines with high salaries, failing corporations, controversial downsizing programmes and an apparent focus on short term profitability rather than long term development and people. Middle managers, too, have gradually found themselves increasingly undermined and even dispensed with altogether, as skilled teams and individuals tend to more and more manage themselves.

Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005), the “father of modern management” and a harsh critic of a greed-driven economy, described this emergence of self-empowered specialists in his 1999 book “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”. In it, Drucker also insisted that we should not confine our view of management as applying to businesses only. Instead, he argues, management is a key function of all levels of modern society. “Ours,” he writes, “is a society of organizations. And management is the specific and distinguishing organ of any and all organizations.”

Good management, then, is even more important in today’s world. It has the potential to be the key to dealing with the societal complexities and challenges we face today.

So – just what is good management? How do you define and describe it? And is good management a means in itself? Does it have to have a purpose, too, and can it ever be separated from the social and common good? These are the questions the participants are asked to answer from their individual experiences and perspectives in the framework of “The Global Peter Drucker Challenge” (now in its second year after a successful first round last year).

How to participate

Participants must not to be older than 35 years. The length of the essays should be between 1.500 words and 3.000 words (which roughly translates into 5-10 pages). Essays can be submitted in both English and German – the two languages Peter Drucker wrote his articles and books in. The deadline for submitting the essays is July 15th, 2011.

The winners will be chosen through a jury consisting of business executives, academics, and representatives of the Peter Drucker Society. The winning essays will be announced at the beginning of September.

ICWE, organiser of the annual eLearning Africa conference and partner of the competition, will be sponsoring one candidate from Africa to participate in the Forum.

For more information on “The Global Peter Drucker Challenge” and to get detailed guidelines how to participate go to: www.druckerchallenge.org

Contact: druckerchallenge@gmail.com

$100,000 Grant for Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Solutions for Childhood Vaccinations

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Maybe you can apply for this grant.

 

Gates Foundation is currently accepting proposals for Round 7 of Grand Challenges Explorations until May 19, 2011 on the following topics, the first two of which are new:


* Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children
* Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Innovative Ways to Accelerate, Sustain, and Monitor Eradication
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Solutions for Improved Uptake and Coverage of Childhood Vaccinations

 

Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects  showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.

 

Full descriptions of the topics and application instructions are available at: www.grandchallenges.org/gce.


To view a video featuring past grant winners and their projects, click here

 

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, apply. If you know someone else who may have a great idea, please forward this message.

 

Thank you for your commitment to solving the world’s greatest health challenges.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people – especially those with the fewest resources – have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.