e p r o m pop tech
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M.I.T., Africa, & Mobile Telephones.
Nathan Eagle, PhDResearch Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adjunct Associate Professor, CTIT, EthiopiaFulbright Lecturer, University of Nairobi, Kenya
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Who Uses Mobile Phones?
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Why Africa?
•Africa: fastest growing mobile phone market in the world.
•Underserved mobile software market.
•10,000’s of computer scientists graduating every year…
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EPROM:Entrepreneurial Programming and Research
on Mobiles
•Education
•Research
•Entrepreneurship
http://mit.edu/eprom
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EPROM: EducationDeveloping the Curriculum...
• Python for Rapid Prototyping
• SMS Bootcamp
• Mobile Phone Programming for Entrepreneurs
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EPROM: Research
•mDSS - Mobile Medicine
•Sim-Based App Dev
•Realty Mining Africa
•SMS Bloodbank
•BoonaNet
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EPROM: EntrepreneurshipMobile Application Development
•SMS Gateway
•Air Time Regulator
•Stolen Car Alerts
•Business Directories
•Electricity Credit
•Weather Forecasts
•MoSoko (Craig’s List)
•Crush Lists...
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Get Involved.
Nathan [email protected]
Photos from Rapid Mobile App Prototyping, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
October 12, 2007
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EPROM: EducationPython 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 appuifwappuifw.note(u’Hello World!’)