Apps4Africa

In Tanzania we have a good number of individuals (professional teachers or non-professionals) who have interests in assisting youths in academic matters. This portal will be a gateway bridging the gap between teachers and students regardless of their location or which schools they are located or teaching or studying.

This will be a place where some of the schools could take this as an opportunity to show the public that they have the best teachers by exposing them to students from any school to ask questions, guidance etc on relevant subjects

It is a web application which can be used to buy and sell articles. The users of the system can create an item such as songs, movie ideas, story ideas, etc) for sale providing the description and sample of it. The buyers can bid by providing a bid amount (which should be greater than the previous bid)
Why the system?
Because most of people in Africa are unemployed yet they have talents and good ideas in their head only that they can’t express them, they have no where to be heard.

Students in Higher Learning institutions in Tanzania are in need of a services which will give them some information for them to make decision within reasonable timing and without hassle. E.g getting Information (using Mobile phones )about Loan status, Accommodation Status, Tuition Fee status, Exams result etc while still on leave/vacation in their villages

USSD is available on all cellphones yet one can't find as many apps as one can think should be. USSD gateways are hard(very) to acquire. The solution suggested is a shared, street-affordable gateway where -
-developer with idea for an app downloads the _easilyUssd SDK.
-App is designed and developed on the devkit
-App is submitted to _easilyUssd where its vetted for practicality
-If it passes it gets hosted and the app is assigned a '*000*1234#'-type address.
-The app's address can then be distributed via sms, wap, etc.

a portal that aggregates crowd sourced information by constituency from existing platforms such as USHAHIDI, MAP KIBERA, SODNET BUDGET TOOL, GOVERNMENT websites.

It is an internet based application that can be accessed through out the world. The system can be used to launch surveys (Such as hospital services: How services are provided, in Schools: how teachers do their job, in government: how democracy and other things are performed etc) and record user responses. There will features like emails notifications of surveys, publishing of survey results, report generation etc. people/ users will be sending messages via phones, emails or postal mails.

MobilE is web application system that helps in finding people that are the victims of disasters such as the one that happened in Haiti. The users send multimedia information at no cost and this information is sent to the system, this one sends it to people related to the people in need (family and organisation in the nearest area who can help).It locates the people in need of help and rank them by order of urgency. It has a mobile web version that accurately and rapidly provides all information needed to help the unfortunate people.

SMS updates when public funds are available for buying bricks, or other materials that can be locally sourced to young people

MobilE - Virtual Thinkers
MobilE is web application system that helps in finding people that are the victims of disasters such as the one that happened in Haiti. The users send multimedia information at no cost and this information is sent to the system, this one sends it to people related to the people in need (family and organisation in the nearest area who can help).It locates the people in need of help and rank them by order of urgency. It has a mobile web version that accurately and rapidly provides all information needed to help the unfortunate people.