MobileSenegal: Three Years of Lessons of Capacity Building with Impact
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MobileSenegal: Three Years of Lessons of Capacity Building with Impact Presented at the mEducation Alliance International Symposium: Partnering for Scale and Impact, http://www.meducationalliance.org/, September 5-6, Washington DC This presentation covers the work of MobileSenegal (http://mobilesenegal.org, http://facebook.com/mobilesenegal, @mobilesenegal).
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MobileSenegal: Three Years of Lessons of Capacity Building with Impact
- 1. MobileSenegal: Three Years of Lessons of Capacity Building with Impact Dr. Christelle Scharff Pace University, New York, NY, USA The 1st mobile MobileSenegal community in http://mobilesenegal.org Senegal since 2009 cscharff@pace.edu @mobilesenegal /mobilesenegal Presented at the mEducation Alliance International Symposium: Partnering for Scale and Impact, http://www.meducationalliance.org/, September 5-6, Washington DC
- 2. Founded in 2008 First initiative of this type in a Francophone country of Africa Goal: Capacity building in M4D
- 4. Project Social Mobile Mgt networking Technology Monetization Marketing Community Global Software Entrepreneurship Engineering Local Model for Process Impact Capacity Quality Building Assurance Real Projects Real Beneficiaries Design Mentoring / Oral / Written Skills Follow-up Presentations English
- 5. Community • Universities, companies, NGOs, associations, incubators etc • Mobile Innovations Dakar – http://www.meetup.com/mobileinnovationsdakar • Mobile Innovations Thiès – http://www.meetup.com/mobileinnovationsthies • Mobile Monday Dakar – http://mobilemonday.sn First Mobile Monday in West Africa
- 6. Global Software Development Interdisciplinary Global vision of Mobile solutions teams to work Smarter Energy relevant globally together
- 7. 4 Courses in 3 5 Bootcamps Dakar and St Competitions Louis 3 Faculty 3 Years of Global training Software Development (US, Senegal, India, Cambodia) Publications (M4D, ICSE) More than 30 apps More than developed (7 More than 200 250 students beneficiaries deployed, 7 impacted released) From Dakar to Ziguinchor Evolving technologies
- 8. Outcomes • A “license” in Mobile Application Development created at the University of Thies in 2011 • KomKom was awarded a Judge Choice Prize at the Nokia Calling All Innovators Competition in 2009. KomKom was piloted in the artisan village of Thiès. • StopMalaria was awarded first prize at the Population Council Data Uncovered Contest in December 2011 and presented at the GSMA Mobile Health University Challenge 2011-2012. • 5 applications submitted to MobileSenegal competitions were released in the Google Play (SenGeoSante) and Nokia Store (Africa Quiz, Donor, CodeDeLaRoute, and Niett)
- 9. CibleCI • CibleCI was developped by students at Pace, Thies, ESP and ESMT (Dakar), and India in 2010, and piloted in Senegal in July 2012
- 10. Lessons • Keys are: – Creating and nurturing an ecosystem – Having champions in Senegal – Training faculty – Working on real projects with real beneficiaries (on the ground) – Choosing the right tools – Integrating mentoring from day ONE
- 11. Future • Strengthen the project in Senegal and in the sub-region during my Fulbright at UCAD in Senegal
Editor's Notes
- Important – la premiere communaute du mobile
- Mobile Monday est un reseau glboal. Il y a des mobile Monday dans le monde entier. Celui sci est le permiere en afrique francophone. Si on te demande le prochaine venemetn c est en octobre. C est plus un reseay pour les professionnels.
- Les accomplissementsOn ne fait pas que Dakar = Dakar, ZigunichorToutes les technologies – Java ME depuis le debut, SMS (Kannel, frontline) mais en plus Android et web bientot,Bootcamps – 3 a thies, 1 a l ESMt, 1 sponsorise par Google a Dakar C est pas de la theorie c est de la pratiqueBeneficiaires des applications c est les personnes qui ont utilsees les applicationsPour le developpement distribue / global des etuaints de l ESP, ESMT, Pace, du Cambodge et d Inde ont developpe CibleCIFormation des formateurs en Java ME, un peu Android et cet annee web mobile avec W3CDes publications sur le projet a des conferencesTu peux parler du bootcamp auquel tu as participeDemandes peut etre si certaines personnes ont participe a des bootcamp ou competitions(peut etre j espere qu il y en aura!)
- Voix dans l application en wolof