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Nigerian ICT Advocate hosts Hangout with finalists of 2011 Android Developer Challenge

Nigerian ICT Advocate, Gbenga Sesan will be holding a live Google Plus hangout session with finalists of this year’s Android Developer Challenge. This year’s challenge winners include Nigeria’s Afrinolly App, Kenya’s Olaleshe and Kenya’s Shoppers’ Delight App. The Google Plus Hangout will be held on Thursday, November 17th at 12 Noon (Lagos Time)

The live session will provide an opportunity for African web developers, entrepreneurs and Internet marketers to hear from the winners about their experience building their winning applications, what their experience has been like since winning the contest and their plans for the future.

The session will be held in collaboration with Nigeria’s Co-Creation Hub, Kenya’s iHub and the Umbono Tech Incubator in Cape Town.

According to the information made available to us, interested web developers, entrepreneurs and start-up owners who wish to contribute to the session should please post their questions via the session’s Google Moderator page here before Thursday.

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October Meet-Up: Get Techie 1.0

Are you the mobile / internet enthusiast out there who believes / plays in the industry but doesn’t fully understand the language? You are a potential investor and you know there are prospects in this industry but you just dont understand most of the basics.

You are probably student who has many questions on how to become a mobile/internet enterpreneur? Or you are a professional who is looking at a career change or business in our industry but you have been finding it difficult to understand the basics on the internet and mobile business.

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Update: August Meet-up

The tickets for August 2011 MoMo meet-up are now available. The theme of this month’s event is “Meet The Players” and the focus is to showcase the key players in the Nigeria Mobile Ecosystem. The event will take place on Monday, 29 August 2011 and the details of the venue will be confirmed shortly.

Three (3)  main players already confirmed their availability for the event and these are Microsoft, MTN and Nokia. These 3 companies will be speaking on their services, product offerings and plans for the Nigeria Mobile Ecosystem.

To register for this event, kindly visit http://meetdplayers.eventbrite.com/

Update: The August event has been shifted by a week. It will now take place on Monday, 05 September 2011. Sorry for the inconveniences.

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Nokia Announces August Developers Training in Lagos

Nokia has just announced that its upcoming training course for Qt and Java development here in Lagos. The training will take place from 29 to 31 August 2011. As the last training, the objective is to get developers up to speed with creating, developing and publishing Qt and Java applications for Nokia devices.

The three day training workshop will provide an overview of Java ME, review the exciting opportunities offered by Nokia Store, and cover Mobile Java programming essentials as well as mobile application development with Qt Quick.  The company will also be using the event to announce its plan to support local developers for the Nokia’s “Create 4 Millions” competition. Submission for this competition closes on 20 September 2011. Click here to know more about the competition.

Update: You can now register for the training by visiting the Nokia Training Page. The training is free but reservation is based on first-come first-served basis.

NB: Write-up first appeared at www.otekbits.com

 

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Pitch Monday Round-up

Whenever I have opportunity of speaking with Startup founders, the first thing on the agenda is always the issue of  funding. Many people believe that the main reason why we don’t see many thriving businesses in Nigeria is lack of funding. While this may be true, there are many other reasons. One other reason I have noticed among Nigeria Startups is lack of enough information about their industry. Most people assume that things will take shape as long as they have access to the funding they need. But things are becoming clearer now.

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Pitch Monday holds July 25th

Do you have a startup idea? Join us at this month’s edition of Mobile Monday as we open the floor for you to pitch investors that will be present. First you need to register to attend the event, then fill the form below if you have an idea you want to pitch.

 

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MoMo June round-up

The Mobile Monday June 2011 meet-up was a blast. This event has generated positive buzz in the industry since last night and now many people look forward to the July 2011 meet-up. The event took place on in Lagos on 20 June 2011 at Roberts Café, Lagos.

The focus of the meet-up was “Mobile Applications Platforms” and we had speakers from Nokia and Fasmicro who shed more light on their different platforms, their market penetration and what they have to offer developers.

Mr. Praveen Sheety (from Nokia) talked extensively on the Nokia’s devices and the market penetration in Africa. He also explained the Nokia’s developer platform and how Nigerian developers can take advantage to showcase their works. He cited example of a Nigerian developers who has many apps on the Ovi store. The apps are not only being downloaded in 55 countries, the developer is also making money from his apps. At the end of his presentation, he showed people present how to register as a publisher on the Nokia platform. If you missed the event, do visit Forum Nokia for more details.

The second presentation was made by the team from Fasmicro, the brain behind Ovim tablet. The MD of Fasmicro used the platform to discuss his company’s product and services including mobile apps development on Android platform, training and consulting. He also talked about the Fasmicro Android app store and what it has to offer the Nigerian developers.

Key highlight of the evening was the talk by the legal professionals in the house. The lawyers talked about patent, copyright, trademark and registering your company. The lawyers also talked about why every developer needs to operate a business entity and also why protection of their intellectual property is very important. It is not enough to have a good idea and execute it, developers now need to understand how to turn their software into a thriving business.

If you missed this event, July meet-up is definitely something that you don’t want to miss. We will be having investors in the house and start-ups will be given opportunity to pitch their idea for investment. Watch this space for more information.

NB: This post originally appeared at Otekbits. Thanks to the @otekbits team for allowing us to use this on the Mobile Monday Nigeria website.

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June Mobile Monday is here, register now!

If you are a mobile developer or interested in mobile technology, it’s time for another interesting time for Mobile Monday, June edition. The focus this time will be on Mobile applications platforms and there will be Lawyers and Platform companies on ground. It will also be an interesting time to network with other stakeholders in the industry. If you have an interesting app to showcase to attendees, it’s also a good platform to get a review of your product.

Details

  • Event: MoMo Nigeria June Meetup
  • Date: Monday, June 20, 2011
  • Time: 5:30 – 8pm
  • Venue: Robert’s (Brown’s) Cafe, V/I
  • Theme: Mobile applications platforms

Register here.

 

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Mobile Monday Nigeria, a recap of meet-up

We had fun again at the last Mobile Monday as were we discussed Government policy and Mobile Technology business in Nigeria. Close to 50 people attended and about 70% were attending for the first time.

The event started on a very light note as everyone in the room introduced themselves and what they do. Yomi Adegboye of Mobility Nigeria gave a brief update about the mobile industry and the shift to expect in the industry. Sheriff Shittu (Myself) of Webtrendsng.com gave another recap about things that are shaping the industry and how Nigerian developers are making things happen. I talked about interesting apps that were developed at recent Garage48 held earlier in the month. Some of the apps include; CallCamp, CooknChop, MyCash and a host of other innovative stuffs.

After the recap, the discussion moved to the theme of the day; Government policy and Mobile Business in Nigeria. ‘Gbenga Sesan ED of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria was the  moderator;

Highlights of the discussion;

  • Developers generally don’t know how to push policy forward for Government to impliment
  • How can we get involve to bring about favourable policy.
  • Participants were also encouraged to learn how government decisions are made
  • Is government policy a hindrance to growth of the industry? Key question that everyone in the room had an opinion about.
  • How can we grow the ecosystem? A responsibility for everyone to work out.

Mr. Tomi Davies talk;

Mr. Tomi is the COO of Mobitel, an internet service provider in Nigeria. He talked about how they fought established bureaucrats to get the license and how they won in the law court as their license was threatened for withdrawal illegally.

He focused extensively on the importance of integrity in doing business in the country. He said, the first compromise you make will be the last you would have to make before your downfall.

Mari-anne; a world bank consultant on building scalable technology business in Africa was also present to share world bank plan for Africa developers.

Largely, the high point was about networking that took place after the event. View pictures here.

Next, will be in June and will focus on the app ecosystem.

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MoMo May meet-up

The May Mobile Monday (MoMo) Nigeria Lagos meet-up is around the corner and it will take place on May 23, 2011. Find below the details of the event:

  • Event: MoMo Nigeria Lagos MeetUp
  • Date: Monday, May 23, 2011
  • Time: 5:30 – 8pm
  • Venue: Robert’s (Brown’s) Cafe, V/I
  • Theme: Government Policy & Mobile Business in Nigeria

The meet-up will focus on the impact of government policy on mobile business and plan is underway to get someone within the government ICT ministry to speak at the event. If you are interested in attending this month’s meetup, kindly visit MoMo event page to register.