the business opportunities in capacity building for apps development in africa
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How to develop localised applications to target and profit from the African market
Dr Derek W. KeatsKenga
Solutionshttp://kengasolutions.com
http://[email protected] +27 82 787 0169
How to develop localised applications to target and profit from the African market
Dr Derek W. KeatsKenga
Solutionshttp://kengasolutions.com
http://[email protected] +27 82 787 0169
The business opportunities
in capacity building
TheAfrican
market
!!!
TheAfrican
market
!!!
TheAfrican
market
!!!
Our share of knowledge
economy production
Research published
TheAfrican
market
!!!
The make it
here and sell
it there
approach?
to target and
profit from
Outcome
The business opportunities
in capacity building
Idea capital
The quantity of ideas that are contained in an initiative, the
relationships among them, and the degree to which those
ideas lead to
other ideas in
an ecosystem.
913 100
USA 2010
People who make a living as software developers
2 000
913 100
Nigeria 2012
300 000
People who make a living as software developers
What mix is right?
0
100
Within
localecosystem
Outside of
localecosystem
USA
SA
Nigeria
Doesn't
matter
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
2002
University of the
Western Cape
AVOIR
Human development
Capacity building
Chisimba training at Uganda Martyrs University
Creating opportunitiesfor talented young software
developers& implementersto excel
All about ...
Creating opportunitiesthrough transnational
alliances within Africa and out
All about ...
Software & process
innovation capacity
Reducing dependence on the awful sameness of prepared applications
Megan Watson of the UWC team ran a
training workshop for new developers in
Ghana in August, 2006.
Why FOSS?
Starting
point
Knowledge
Permission
Successful innovation
Cost
Barriers to
innovation
An object-oriented, MVC framework for rapid development of distributed software applications
A framework for building software and skills
Built on a stack of FOSS applications & libraries using a suite of FOSS development & collaboration tools
GNU/Linux PHPMySQL Apache2ChisimbaThe FOSS stack
JavascriptjQueryCross platform
RESTful APIAjaxMashableXMPP
Mobile phone
Online package
management
Cloud-ready
CURLFFmpegPEAR
ObjectEngineViewControllerModel
ModuleViewControllerModelModuleViewControllerModelModuleViewControllerModel
Helper
modules
e.g. htmlelementsutilitiesAPIblocksstringssysconfigsecuritymodulecataloguelucene
Everything is a module
Instances
eLearningCMSBlogPortalOER
systemSocialMappingNews. . . etc
Make
a back
end for
mobile
apps
List posts
2009
2010
Number of posts
A network of networks
e.g. Afghanistan
eQuality
alliances
e.g. InWent
e.g. HP Chameleon
e.g. Animal health
e.g. FLOSS Include
An alliance can be viewed as a
network of networks
Increasing the networks in the alliance strengthens the alliance and the underlying networks
Adding nodes toa network strengthens the network and the nodes
e.g. Vietnam
e.g. Philippines
AVOIR
e.g. VLIR
Training in Chisimba development and implementation
FET sector
Chisimba FET project wins best Capactity Building award at
the 2011 SAFIPA conference
Business
Partner institutions,
organisations, projects
Capacity building, academic projects
Commercial activity,enterprise solutions
Lessons
Collaboration, networks and alliances
are a way to build software
engineering capacity that could
be used to create an APP
ecosystem
Creating coordinated opportunities for students who have learned theory of software to achieve practical experience made them much more marketable
Our biggest challenge is understanding and believing we can and should do it & then building sustainable businesses
Lessons
AVOIR is non-structural that was an important component of both its success and its winding down
Despite numerous challenges, AVOIR has been going for 8 years, and has produced excellent software in Africa
With industry interest and input (including funding) we could replicate it and include an app ecosystem
The
FUTURE
My
DREAM
Derek Keats, [email protected]
+27 82 787 0169
www.dkeats.com kengasolutions.comThank you
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