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Omidyar Network Maps $5 Million To Spread On Government Accountability Projects In Africa

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Omidyar Network doubles to $5m to help organizations with ideas on helping the governments in Africa stay accountable. If you get ideas, they have the funds and you cannot beat $5m. Here is the press release.

 

July 19, 2011, LAGOS, Nigeria — Omidyar Network announced today a new two-year, US$5million commitment to fund organizations that foster government transparency and accountability in Africa. The ‘My Voice, Our Community’ campaign will invest in innovative organizations that use technology to give citizens a voice in their community by connecting individuals to information and others who share their interests, and by providing them the tools to influence issues that impact their lives. Impact investments and grants will be made to for-profit and nonprofit organizations based in Africa or that are dedicated to serving the needs of Africans. Omidyar Network Investment Partner Stephen King made the announcement in Lagos while participating in the British Prime Minister’s business delegation to Africa.

 

“When citizens engage in the issues that affect them, they can help to ensure that power and public funds are used wisely and are representative of their interests. ‘My Voice, Our Community’ recognizes that meaningful participation happens only when one has access to information and the ability to share and connect with others in the community,” said King. “The campaign is meant to encourage and support entrepreneurs from all sectors who want to play their part in helping bring about positive social change.”

 

Through its Government Transparency initiative, Omidyar Network invests in innovative organizations that use technology and media platforms to provide access to information and tools necessary for citizens to participate in the governing process and hold governments to account. Over the last two years, the firm has invested over $30M to government transparency efforts across the globe, including organizations in Africa such as: Ushahidi, FrontlineSMS, Africa Media Initiative, Praekelt Foundation, Infonet, Sahara Reporters, Enough is Enough Nigeria and the Africa Transparency and Technology Initiative.

Co-Creation Hub Lagos Gets $245,000 From Omidyar Network And The Indigo Trust

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Congratulations to Co-Creation Hub for the grant from Omidyar and The Inigo Trust. Now, we can have our own iHub Kenya. The press release is here.

Omidyar Network and The Indigo Trust To Fund New Social Innovation Center in Nigeria

July 19, 2011, REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  and LONDON –Omidyar Network and The Indigo Trust announced today their support and intent to fund the Co-Creation Hub in Lagos, Nigeria. The Hub is a non-profit, social enterprise centered around a shared work space where stakeholders from multiple walks of Nigerian life come together to collaboratively create tech-based solutions that address social challenges facing Nigerian society. It will be Nigeria’s first multi-functional, multi-purpose space dedicated to the creation of social technology ventures. Omidyar Network will grant up to US$200,000, and The Indigo Trust has provided a grant of US$45,000.

 

The Hub will accommodate 50-60 tech start-ups at one time and will provide pre-incubation services including: advice, training, mentorship and access to funding through a network of local and international partners. The Hub will also serve as a place for stakeholders to meet, brainstorm, share ideas and collaborate through partnership events, meet-ups, focus groups, hackathons, competitions and talks by guest speakers.

 

The Hub founders, ‘Bosun Tijani and Femi Longe, saw first-hand the impact of focused social innovation efforts through their leadership in the Social Innovation Camp Nigeria and Tech in Governance camp that took place this year in Nigeria. The camps yielded a number of technology initiatives focusing on issues such as government accountability, health information and crime tracking and reporting. Their goals for The Hub include helping to stimulate the creation of more than two dozen social ventures over the next two years. The Hub will open its doors in August this year.

 

“The Co-Creation Hub promises to foster the development of technology-driven social enterprises that will address many of Nigeria’s most pressing problems,” said Stephen King, Omidyar Network investment partner. “The Hub will provide the environment, stimulation and connections to capital and expertise necessary to help Nigerian entrepreneurs launch their social missions to improve the lives of millions of Nigerians.”

 

The grant represents Omidyar Network’s latest investment in innovative uses of technology for development and support of entrepreneurship in Africa. It follows the recent creation of the Africa Transparency and Technology Initiative and support of the African Leadership Academy and the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship.

 

“We are delighted to support a venture which will create an enabling environment for African-led innovation, contextualized to local needs,” said Francesca Perrin, founder and director of the Indigo Trust. “The Hub will bring together developers, innovators and business professionals, creating the right conditions to stimulate innovation and generate technology-led solutions that improve governance and support development objectives across Nigeria. We’re excited about the potential of Hubs. It seems natural to us that people should come together to share technical, human and social bandwidth.”

 

About The Indigo Trust

The Indigo Trust is a grant making foundation that funds technology-driven projects to bring about social change, largely in African countries. The Trust focuses mainly on innovation, transparency and citizen empowerment. The Indigo Trust makes grants to African projects or programmes, or to organisations which operate at least partly in African countries. We believe that access to information for all empowers people to change their own lives and communities. Fran Perrin founded the trust that she now runs with her husband William. The Indigo Trust is one of the 18 Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT). The Trusts work and fund autonomously across many different sectors and geographic regions but share offices and administration. For more information see The Trust’s blog: http://indigotrust.wordpress.com.

Government Owned Electronic Development Institute (Awka) Hires Fasmicro As A Technical Consultant

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Nigeria Government Owned Electronic Development Institute (National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure) has hired Fasmicro as a Technical Consultant. We are very excited to have an opportunity to work with the most important agency in the nation in the area of electronic development.


ELDI is a Research Institute under National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure. The target of ELDI is to domesticate/innovate existing technologies in Electronics and Information Communication Technology. The world wide electronic revolution has pushed numerous electronic products into Nigeria from outside the country. In fact, Nigeria is reputed to be the fastest growing electronic market especially with respect to
Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Fasmicro Apps Invent 2011 – Register, Get One Ovim Tablet

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Fasmicro will organize the biggest Android Apps Development workshop in Nigerian history where everyone that registers gets a free tablet. We have tagged it Apps Invent 2011. Register for N49,900 (one week course) and get a new Ovim tablet.

Fasmicro Apps Invent 2011 – a training programme for those who intend to venture into mobile apps development but do not have the time, tools or resources that it warrants. We at Fasmicro have come up with a solution that ensures that you learn all the intricacies of Android development while making sure that you have an Android device which you can use for work or for play.

Apps Invent 2011 is a hands on training lab where participants acquire the skills required to create world class Android Applications. This programme is aimed at everybody, irrespective of your programming skill level.  At the end of this workshop, all participants would be able to develop fully functioning mobile applications that target the Android platform.

Course Outline

Day 1 – First Steps

  • Introducing Android App Inventor
  • Instruction Blocks
  • Application Components
  • Inventing an App

Day 2 – Creating Utilities

  • Envisioning Solutions
  • Sample Projects
  • Labs

Day 3 – Game Development

  • Understanding the Sprite
  • Sample Projects
  • Labs

Day 4 – Android and Embedded Systems

  • Connecting to external devices
  • Bluetooth, WiFi and GSM Networks
  • Sample Projects
  • Labs

Day 5 – Monetizing your efforts

  • From code to cash
  • Integrating ads into your application
  • How to sell your apps

 

 

Schedule

Apps Invent 2011 has two identical sessions in August of 2011, prospective students can choose from any of the following sessions depending on their convenience. The venue of this programme is at Fasmicro’s training centre. No 124A Okigwe road, Owerri, Imo State.

 

  • First Session: August 1st 2011 – August 5th 2011
  • Second Session: August 8th 2011 – August 13th 2011

 

What you would get.

Every participant would get an OVIM Android tablet for home keeping, the complete list of goodies include:

  • 7” Android Tablets (OVIM)
  • Complete and Up–to–date software development kits
  • Reference Books and Practice Materials
  • Reserved slots for uploading apps to the Fasmicro Android apps store
  • Lifetime access to Fasmicro’s training facilities and technical staff for

 

Making Preparations

  • Every participant is required to come with a laptop with a functioning wireless network card.
  • Note that no programming skills are required.
  • If you are attending from outside Owerri, Fasmicro can help you make your hotel reservations. Visit here for the nearly hotels to our facility.

 

Pricing

The cost per participant is N49,900

 

Contact: Email info@fasmicro.com or call the Owerri lines for registrations

 

 

Huawei Now Produces Its Own HSPA Baseband Silicon – ABI Research Teardown Reveals

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EETimes reports that China telecom giant Huawei Technologies is producing its own HSPA baseband silicon, according to a new teardown report by ABI Research. The discovery of the chip raises questions about how far Huawei’s ambitions extend in basebands at a time when LTE networks are o the rise.

 

Huawei makes two wideband CDMA external modems, both sold as the E173. One version uses a Qualcomm MSM6290 HSPA chipset, the other uses a baseband designed by Huawei’s HiSilicon division and both are subjects of ABI teardown reports. Since the modem’s release in late 2010, the Huawei HSPA baseband has appeared in two other products, ABI said.

 

With this, it simply shows that Chinese legacy players are stepping this game up and very soon, they will become independent from many US vendors in chip supplies. They are developing competence and capacity in  multiple areas and will surely improve with time.

 

What is HSPA?

 

High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), that extends and improves the performance of existing WCDMA protocols. A further 3GPP standard, Evolved HSPA (also known as HSPA+), was released late in 2008 with subsequent adoption worldwide beginning in 2010. (wikipedia)

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