Hallo All, I would like to inform you that over the course of this week, Uganda was represented by 4 applications in the recently concluded Pivot East competition <http://pivoteast.com>.
The applications <http://pivoteast.com/competition/finalists.html> were: *1) Easy Order: *SMS based ordering and supply chain management application that simplifies the way customers order for goods from manufacturers and distributors. *2) Story spaces:* A digital story telling portal *3) mPoultry:* Brooder poultry monitoring using a mobile phone *4) MafutaGo:* Helps users find the nearest fuel stations with the prices and Services that best suit their needs. It is with great joy that I would like to inform you that two of the applications each won $10000 in their various categories and they are: *Easy Order *in the Business and resource management category *MafutaGo* in the utilities category Congratulations to all the developers who represented Uganda at Pivot East. http://pivoteast.com/blog/2012/06/and-the-winner-is/ More to that, I would like to inform you about the launch of the Google Apps developer Challenge It’s time to show the world what you can do with Google Apps and the Google Drive API. Developers in 6 regions<http://www.google.com/events/gadc2012/about/index.html> across the world will win prizes that include Chromebooks and up to *$20,000 USD* with other *special prizes for students and female developers!* All you have to do is build and submit an amazing application in one of these categories: - Enterprise / Small Business Solutions - Social / Personal Productivity / Games / Fun - Not-for-Profit: Education / Water / Food & Hunger / Health A winner will be chosen for each category, in each region -- 18 prizes in total. Please visit http://www.google.com/events/gadc2012/ for more details. Cheers, --------------- Richard Zulu Program Director, Outbox www.outbox.co.ug Twitter www.twitter.com/richardzulu http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardzulu Skype: zulu.richard
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