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| Mobile Boot camp winner awarded July 8, 2010
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| Enterprise Development Centre hosts seminar on budget July 5, 2010
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 Catherine Ngahu, the Chairman of Kenya ICT Board presentes a cheque to Grace Kihumbi. Grace Kihumba won the inaugural mobile applications competition. Sospeter Muriu, and Hussein Lightwalla were the first and second runners up respectively. Grace, Sospeter and Hussein completed their BBIT degrees last week.
Grace got Kshs20,000 while Sospeter and Hussein each got Kshs10,000 from the Kenya ICT Board. Catherine Ngahu, the Chairman of the board presented Grace with her cheque.
The competition was announced at the first mobile boot camp held at the University on 27th and 28th November 2008. The competition’s applications were to be developed in two weeks in J2ME, Python or Blackberry. Grace’s application was a sales application customized for use by East African Breweries Limited. The application runs on Blackberry phone and enables distributors to collect sales data on the phone, send data to a server, insert it in a database, and produce varied reports.
Sospeter’s application on Python makes it possible for users to view and manipulate ID3 tags on the S60 phones. S60 phones can play MP3 files. However, users cannot view or manipulate the files’ ID3 tags. The application enables them to view and manipulate them. ID3 tags are information such as track number, artists, genre etc related with MP3 files.
Hussein’s application was known as Wordmatica. It is a simple word game in Python to be played on Series 60 Nokia cellphones. The game basically involves exchanging words with the computer. Each player must give at each round a unique, legitimate English word that begins with the letter with which the opponent’s last word ended.
Speaking at the event, Mr Paul Kukubo, the CEO of Kenya ICT Board said that an essential factor in the development of ICT innovation was an enabling institution of higher education like Stanford University in Silicon Valley. He likened the role Strathmore is playing in Kenya to the role Stanford has played at the Valley.
The next mobile boot camp will be held on 10th and 11th July 2009.
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| | Jefferson Koyi | Congratulations Grace,To the organizers we need more and more of these Mobile Boot camps.
Comment made on 2009-04-06 04:37:30 | | Rebecca Muturi | Congratulations to Grace,Sospeter and Hussein!It is very encouraging to see some of our BBIT colleagues coming up with such creative systems.Very innovative!
Comment made on 2009-04-16 09:28:29 | | Wesonga Nelson | The Chairman, CEO of the ICT Board and PS Min. of Info & Com, Mrs Ngahu, Mr. Kukubo and Mr. Ndemo respectively. I wish to applaud you all for your personal and official initiatives you are doing to champion the ICT industry in the country. For those who won individual awards Grace, Sospeter & Husein, may the almighty God grant you power of wisdom to excel in the field and benefit many more Kenyans.
Comment made on 2009-05-05 02:20:59 | | Eric Kaiuki | Congratulations to you all. This is truly a motivation for me and I hope that my final year project will match if not surpass the legacy you have laid.
Comment made on 2009-05-20 01:21:40 | | Njoroge Kinyanjui | Kudos Strathmore on such an innovative idea; a great step in the Local software economy and for making the learning process as practical as it can be. This will further guaranteed that graduates are ready for the job market. To Grace, Sospeter and Hussein congratulations are in order !!!
Comment made on 2009-08-14 03:32:40 |
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