Mobile and Web Design for SenegalEvents funded or related to this grant
March 2008 - Senegalese faculty trip to the US (MB)
May 2008 - Beginning of the project
May 2008 - Attendance - JavaOne (CS)
June 2008 - NYU Entrepreneurship training (CS)
June 2008 - Attendance -
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Faculty Summit on Mobile Devices in CS Education, Guelph, Canada (CS) June/July 2008 - Course on Mobile Phone Programming for Entrepreneurship, Pace University (
here) July 2008 - US faculty trip to Senegal
Presentation at University of Thies on 7/18/2008 (slides)
University of Thies students share entrepreneurial ideas (here)
Presentation of their Web sites by the students of the University of Thies on 7/19/2008 (The list of Web sites is here)
Meeting with the NCNW NGO (National Council of Negro Women) at Saint Louis (slides)
Presentation of the Tech Contest and Bootcamp at the University of Thies on 7/23/2008 (
slides)
August/December 2008 - Technology challenge (All)
September/December 2008 -
CSE651: Mobile Computing for Informal Economies at SUNY Stony Brook September 2008 - MB got 20 mobile phones from Nokia (MB)
October 2008 -
MobileActive08, Johannesburg, South Africa. Presentation available here (CS) Interview for
WADR (West Africa Democracy Radio) aired at the end of November (CS)
September/December 2008 - Seminar on Mobile Computing for Informal Economies (
here) (AW) October 27-30, 2008 - Attendance -
Software Development Best Practices, Boston, USA (CS) December 13-14, 2008 -
Mobile for Development, Karlstad, Sweden. Poster available here (CS attends) January, 9-17, 2009 - One week bootcamp (web design and mobile phone application development) (All)
All the infos about the bootcamp are available
here
January 28-30, 2009 - Course on Software Quality at ESP Dakar,
http://espquality.wikispaces.com (CS, MB) January 31, 2009 -
http://www.onesiteproject.com at the Village Artisanal of Thies with 32 students (CS, CHK) February 1, 2009 -
http://www.onesiteproject.com at the Village Artisanal of Saint Louis with 13 students (CS) February 2, 2009 - Meeting with the students of the bootcamp - Comments from the Students and What is next? (slides) (CS, MB)
February 4, 2009 - Visit of the Computer Science Department of the Universite Gaston Berger in Saint Louis to talk about and extend the project (CS) (slides)
February 5, 2009 - Visit of the
Millenium Village Project in Louga near Saint Louis (CS) February 6, 2009 - The Wanii software is experimented in a school in Peikou Touba (developer students: Noumounthi Abdoulaye Diao, Mamadou Ndir, Khady Agnounthy Coly and Tamsir Diop, and CS) (More infos are here)
February 9, 2009 - Getting Started with Mobile Application Development (3 hours for all computer science students of Thies - Attendance: 20 students) (CS) (Lectures are in the
Mobile tab and the code of conversion from CFAs to Dollars is here) February 9, 2009 - Update of all the Web sites (students)
February 31, 2009 - Mobile Computing for Informal Economies presented at
February Mobile Tech 4 Social Change New York: A Barcamp (AW, Jennifer Wong and the Stony Brook students: Raksik Kim, Jun Yuan, Tapsie Giridher, Justin Lapre, Fatima Zarinni) (slides) Blog post Don't bury failures, share them in Global Health Report by journalist Christine Gorman at
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/02/dont-bury-failures-share-them.html
January/May 2009 -
CSE651: Mobile Computing for Informal Economies at SUNY Stony Brook (AW, JW) March 15, 2009 - Update of all the Web sites (CS and students)
March 19-21, 2009 -
NCIIA 2009 conference (CS, IN) April 28-29, 2009 -
Nokia Developer Summit, Monaco (CS) May 11-24, 2009 - International Training Workshop on Planning, Building & Management of Science Parks & Incubators, Beijing International Business Incubator, China (MB)
May, June, 2009 - Trip to Senegal (CS)
Schedule available
here (Check May and June 2009) Main events: (CS except otherwise mentioned)
Different courses on mobile and Web design for the students of the University of Thies and follow up of the projects
May 8, 2009 - Meeting with the faculty of Thies (CS, MB, Cheikh Sarr, Mahamadou Thiam, Sarr)
May 12-15, 2009 - Course on "Mobile Application Development" at the Universite Gaston Berger in St Louis (18 hours)
May 26, 2009 - Training for faculty (CS, MB, 2 students of Thies)
May 27-30, 2009 -
E-Learning Africa 2009 (CS and 6 students of Thies) June 9-10, 2009 - Course on "Mobile Application Development" at the Ecole Superieure Polytechnique (ESP) Dakar (12 hours)
June 6, 2009 - Presentation for the students' association on Think Globally and Act Locally (CS
June 10, 2009 - Call for Projects for Students (CS, MB)
Best Life - Campaign to educate on household garbage collection and recycling at Touba Peycouk, Senegal
Success is close at hand - Mobile applications for pupils / students from kindergarten to university in Senegal
Grades - A mobile application to maintain course grades for the University of Thies
A Web site for the Thies City Hall, Senegal
A mobile application for tourists coming to Senegal
June 19, 2009 - Visit and Seminar at ESMT
June 25, 2009 - Deployment of the mobile applications at the Artisan Village of Thies
June 25, 2009 - Upload new attachment "sudfm.mp4" (2 students of Thies)
June 28, 2009 - Web sites for the music artists of Thies (CS, MB)
June 30, 2009 - Submission to the Nokia Competition (CS for the 12 students in mobile of the January Bootcamp)
August 15, 2009 - Entrepreneurship day (CS)
August 16, 2009 - Technology day (CS)
Agusut 26, 2009 to December 15, 2009,
August 15-18, 2009 - NCIIA's Sustainable Vision AI2V Workshop, Boston, USA (MB)
October 12-14, 2009 -
1st International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change (IMT4SC'09), Mrągowo, Poland October 1, 2009 to January 16, 2009 - Competition for the Development of Mobile Applications for Senegal
Academic calendars:
[(CS: Christelle Scharff, MB: Mamadou Bousso, AW: Anita Wasilewska, CHK: Cheikh Sarr, IN: Ibrahima Ndiaye)