Apps4Africa

People are always playing simple mobile games like snakes & ladders to pass time either while standing in queues, while in transit by public transport etc. This presents an opportunity to deliver educative games t:at could teach basic principles such as business principles, or math or other kinds of knowledge.

Mass texting system that provides rural village with emergency info. Satellite phones will be provided and distributed by a prestigious mobile phone service such as AT&T or Verizon. This will provide a decent amount of capital and investment for such an extensive project, while allowing for a charitable donation for that company. Regions will be “hot spot” designated, and will be managed and operated individually to provide the specific nature of the information. Regional managers will also train individuals on the system.

According to Kenyan law, informal schools that meet a set of criteria can receive public funds. Many of the schools in Kibera meet the criteria but have not received the funds. The informal school network is looking to leverage Map Kibera to make an activism website that identifies the exact location and characteristics of all the schools that meet the public funding criteria but have not received the funds (@mapkibera)

The project aims at creating a courses portal for east African students. It will allow registered users of the system to join a course available in the site and access the materials published for the course. People can register themselves as students of a course or Tutor for a course.
The course home page will contain the title of the course and a brief description, there will be a brief discussion board for each course where students can interact, an announcement board, and course content for the material available. Tutor can upload the course content, Quiz and tests.

A large number of farmers are exposed to vagaries of nature. If they can be provided real time update about impending rain and other act of nature,they can plans their operation much more effectively. For example if they know it is going to rain, then they can store their produce safely. They can plan their sowing, reaping and all such activities.

Following is example of such a project being run in India
http://t.co/n5JRskX

Aimed at MDG #5 - Maternal health: - http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/maternal.shtml

An SMS or USSD based application that aims at providing bits of information to expectant mothers and mid-wives in rural areas who cannot get access to pre-natal care. It could also be used to provide assistance to mid-wives during delivery in case of complications.

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

Build a Java mobile application that runs on low cost mobile phones and uses the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an instant messaging and presence protocol with widespread adoption, to enable the following:

Field workers collect samples, carry out tests. Health workers post symptoms, test results. Results can be sent in real time to experts. Experts respond with advice, recommendations, and prescriptions (can be in real time with the use of XMPP).

We want to carry out assessment of education through standard 1-8. We want this to be accessible to all households. It’s a set of 5 questions to be sent via mobile -- SMS to administer or USSD. People submit the answers through the phone and they would need to be tagged, etc. and indicated as right or wrong. We’d be relying on the parents to administer the test to the children.