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Apps4Africa Winner, iCow. How Far with the Cow Tracking System?

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Technology is transforming the African continent. In East Africa alone there are 50 million mobile phone subscribers and an increasing number of mobile web users. Across the region, the number of IT graduates and tech entrepreneurs is exploding, providing new opportunities to foster social and economic growth.

 

Apps 4 Africa is a contest to highlight the talent of local developers in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania and to leverage the power of digital technology to make a better world. The challenge is to build the best digital tools to address community challenges in areas ranging from healthcare to education and government transparency to election monitoring.

 

The winner last year was iCow.

 

iCow, a voice-based mobile application that helps farmers track the estrus stages of their cows. This application can enable farmers everywhere to better manage breeding periods as well as monitor cow nutrition leading up to the calving day. This will help farmers get the most of their cows and their farms. From Kenya, Charles Kithika is the first place winner receiving $5,000 and an Apple iPad.

 

Can someone share with Tekedia how far this technology has penetrated. We want to know.

Kleptocracy Fighters Shutdown. Hope It is Not Due to Government Pressure

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Kleptocracy Fighters Inc. allows citizens to record and report real time information on government corruption. Reports can include: audio, video, text, and are meant to be both positive and negative. Reports will be forwarded to legal and media partners to help publish cases of corruption. This application has potential to help build trust, accountability and transparency around the world.

 

Kleptocracy Fighters – Kleptocracy: government that uses corruption to facilitate official’s power and wealth.

 

We certainly hope this permanent maintenance mode is not from government pressure.

 

Mamakiba SMS Calculator Ensures Mothers Save for Maternal Health Needs

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Mamakiba is a patient-facing SMS savings calculator and prepayment tracking tool specifically designed to help low-income women save and prepay for their maternal health needs such as ante-natal care and clinical delivery. Many women struggle financially, and this application can help teach the value of budget planning and provide lifesaving care for women and their families.

Mamakiba addresses two particular areas of the customer’s financial planning needs in having a baby, which are establishing and maintaining a savings target for maternal healthcare costs and prepaying towards this target in a convenient way using Mpesa. The customer registers at the Jacaranda Health clinics during the first visit by opening an electronic medical record, which simultaneously registers her for Mamakiba should she wish to join. As part of the standard patient information data collection, she provides 1) her full name, 2) mobile phone number and 3) pregnancy term.

 

If she opts into Mamakiba, she also provides 4) her savings target, which is tied into the Jacaranda Health bundled services including the WHO recommended 4 ANC visits, lab tests, health counseling and normal delivery or emergency treatment 5) the amount she can deposit per period 6) the frequency of the deposit periods and 7) validation of an Mpesa account. If she does not own one, she could possibly activate the Mpesa account through the Jacaranda Health registration process or return later to opt into Mamakiba after registering with an Mpesa agent.

Six Things Before You Choose a Mobile App Developer

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From our experience building apps for customers, these are six things to look for in a Mobile Provider. Finding the right mobile provider(s) for your association will depend greatly on your strategy, and finding the right mobile partner for you is just like finding a partner for other products used by your organization.

 

Keep in mind that there are 3 different paths – mobile website, out-of-the-box apps, or custom apps. As a result, your firm will likely have more than one mobile provider in your mobile ecosystem, because the best apps do a select number of things well.

 

Employing this strategy empowers you  to select which aspects of your member value proposition mean the most to them from their mobile devices.

 

Here are some tips to look for in a mobile provider:

  •  Experience

 

How much experience does the prospective mobile provider have? What is their methodology for application development (or in the case of an out of the box app, what are their development plans?)

  •  Examples

 

Look at their examples and use them – do they work smoothly? Support the user experience you’re seeking?

  •  Partner vs Vendor

What is the prospective provider’s approach to mobile development? Will they be your vendor (ie, providing the platform with little support) or your partner? (ie, providing consulting services around marketing your site/app, guidelines, tailoring new development in response to your inquiries)

  •  Tailored Solutions

What is possible/not possible to tailor about the mobile provider’s solution? Will the app be branded for your organization? What controls will you have over navigation items, language, icons, colors? Will these changes be executed by you or by the provider? Did the provider create the application in house, or pay a third party to develop it? If a third party, how does that impact your ability to tailor your solution for your members?

  • Word of Mouth

What do other firms say about your prospective mobile partner? What can you learn from their experience?

  • Cost

How much does it cost?

 

This piece was adapted from Association Media and Publishing dossier.

Yougora is a Mini Search Engine for Products

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Yougora seeks to help you buy the stuff you want when you want it in the convenience of your home. With Yougora buying is just three words; BROWSE, PAY & ENJOY. You can get event tickets, mobile talk time, groceries, stationery, confectionery, personal effects, home appliances, phones and accessories and even pay your utility bills… etc.

 

Just so you know, the folks at Yougora say “some addiction is good.”.

 

What you can search in Yougora

 

  • Search for products from a wide variety
  • Bargain with merchants for reduced prices (if available)
  • Add the product to your cart for checkout
  • Pay with different payment options including paypal
  • Layaway the product for pickup later or
  • Deliver to your doorstep (done within 24 hours)
  • Get the latest price slash in town via email or sms
  • Connect with friends and view what your friends are buying
  • With dozens of extra necessary features
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