We will be presenting at the Strathmore BootCamp on Day 2 – 29th November 2008.
Day one looks interesting, Zain have just done their presentation on how GSM networks work and basic radio and data principles.Some of the technical terms and explanations will take awhile to settle with the students but hey…its a boot camp not a summer camp.

8:57 – Guys just checking in and mingling. Just met CEO of Dmark and the data specialist from Warid

9:15 – Introductions all round, representation from Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya

9:20 -Norah (missed abit of her talk, will put up later)

9:27 – Tusu CEO of Knowledge Consulting is giving a talk

• knowledge is a barrier
• money is not a problem, all concepts must have a business case behind them
• we need to fall upwards and think outside the box
• dare to dream – can we have mobile applications developed in Africa that permeate the world?
• there is need to merge ICT professionals and development professionals

9:41 – Quickfire session

Issues issues issues….good stuff. Could not type, I had to listen

10:45 – and as with all conferences and workshops…Tea

11.15 – Presentation by Dr.Cris Stork -

12.00 – Presentation by Dr.

Good for him…good for america.Action time now

First things first, i have to mention that it took us longer to get from the airport to our hotel than from Nairobi to to Entebe. The weather is quite lovely and the company of other participants flying in made for interesting conversation as we navigated the 8pm traffic jams of kampala. I am at the moment not sure of the entire composition of the delegates to the workshop but at last check it looked something like this:-

Government representatives:
Uganda, Ministry of ICT
ICT Committee of Parliament, Uganda
The President’s Office, Public Service Management, Tanzania

Regulator:
UCC Uganda
TCRA Tanzania
Rwanda Utility Regulatory Agency

Civil society organisations:
I-Network Uganda
UNDP, Uganda
WOUGNET
SchoolNet, Uganda
BROSDI
Fahamu Kenya
School Ventures, Kenya
KICTANET, Kenya
Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH)
D-tree International

Privet sector:
TrueAfrican
Dmark mobile
Yo! Uganda Limited
Application Laboratory (MTN/Grameen)
Nkoola Institutional Development Associates Ltd
Mountbatten Ltd.
Mobile Planet
Symbiotic Media Consortium
E-Fulusi Africa (T) Limited
Starfish Mobile East Africa LTD
Ericsson
Nokia Siemens Networks
Knowledge Consulting
Bangens Consulting
net4dev

Academia:
Makerere University, Uganda
Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology (UICT)
Research and Education Network of Uganda
University of Nairobi, School of Computing and Inforamtics
Strathmore University, Faculty of Inforamtion Technology, Kenya
Catholic University, Kenya
University of Dar, University Computing Center
Rwanda Education and Research Network
National University of Rwanda
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology
Forum for Pedagogy in Higher Education and Flexible Learning, Mid Sweden University
DSV/KTH
Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester
Open University
UC Berkeley School of Information
The Edge Institute/ Research ICT Africa (RIA)

Operators:
MTN
Zain

Development partners:
Sida/Embassy of Sweden, Dar es Salaam
Sida/Embassy of Sweden, Kampala
USAID, Kampala
IDRC
Sida
SPIDER

I will put up more details as the workshop progresses.