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E P R O M Pop Tech
- 1. M.I.T., Africa, & Mobile Telephones. Nathan Eagle, PhD Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Adjunct Associate Professor, CTIT, Ethiopia Fulbright Lecturer, University of Nairobi, Kenya
- 2. Who Uses Mobile Phones?
- 3. Why Africa? Africa: fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. Underserved mobile software market. 10,000’s of computer scientists graduating every year…
- 4. EPROM: Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles Education Research Entrepreneurship http://mit.edu/eprom
- 5. EPROM: Education Developing the Curriculum... Python for Rapid Prototyping SMS Bootcamp Mobile Phone Programming for Entrepreneurs
- 6. EPROM: Research mDSS - Mobile Medicine Sim-Based App Dev Realty Mining Africa SMS Bloodbank BoonaNet
- 7. EPROM: Entrepreneurship Mobile Application Development SMS Gateway Air Time Regulator Stolen Car Alerts Business Directories Electricity Credit Weather Forecasts MoSoko (Craig’s List) Crush Lists...
- 8. Get Involved. Nathan Eagle [email_address] Photos from Rapid Mobile App Prototyping, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya October 12, 2007
- 10. EPROM: Education Python for Rapid Prototyping... Cross Platform Open Source Successful (Google, NASA, etc) Scripting Language Extending and embedding abilities Good standard library Reasonable memory footprint Access to full phone functionality… Image from: Michele Marchetti, “Python brings application ideas to life” NRC 2004 import appuifw appuifw.note(u’Hello World!’)