Apps4Africa

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

Farmers in Kenya face a big challenge when it comes to using new technologies to enhance their farming and increase their produce. They need an application to enable them market their produce, learn how to control popular pests and diseases and know the prevailing weather conditions too.

The system will have a mobile and web interface for posting requirement of medicine and blood. The information posted will have technical information about the requirement, the location on map, the requirement time frame.

The information will be represented on the map for the public to view.
Authorized health workers and community leaders should be able to post to the system using sms in a given format.
Posting can also be done through smartphones where the location information will be more accurate and automatically added.

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

We have a working prototype of a system for people to query the Kamusi Project (http://www.kamusi.org) database via SMS that we would like to ma further. For example, a mobile phone user can send the following sms: en sw map The sms is received by the server, the database is queried, and the following reply is sent: ramani Advanced users will be able to get more robust results using certain codes. en sw fly #n is a request for fly as a noun (the insect), while en sw fly #v is a request for the verb (moving through the air on wings).

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.

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.

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.