Monday May 20th

 - 14:00-18:00 Rails Girls intro to coding @ KINU Register now
 - 18:00-20:00 Rails Girls Dar es Salaam meet up @ KINU Register now

Tuesday May 21st

 - 09:00-13:00 Introduction to Android Coding @ KINU Register now
 - 09:00-13:00 SPINN Business Idea Workshop @Innovation Space Register now
 - 14:00-18:00 Future Workshop by Super Sisters @Innovation Space Register now

Wednesday May 22nd

 - 09:00-13:00 Intro to Windows Phone Coding @ Innovation Space Register now 
 - 15:00-17:00 Pitch Training by Mr Clark Arrington @ Mara Foundation

Thursday May 23rd

 - 09:00-12:30 Growth Clinic by Mr Aape Pohjavirta @ KINU Register now
 - 14:00-16:00 Building Communities of Women in ICT @ Innovation Space by Rails Girls and Super Sisters

Hear the story of Rails Girls and Super Sisters – how and why did they start, what have they learned, and what they think can be done to encourage women to engage with technology. Intended audience for example students and other young people (men and women), university faculties, incubators, politicians, women entrepreneurs and societies, and other local relevant groups of interest.

 - 16:00-16:30 ”What will our world look tomorrow and what it means for your future business”, presentation by Mr Aape Pohjavirta @ Innovation Space
 - 16:30-18:00 Visit of the Finnish Delegation to COSTECH

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Join us on Saturday 11th, May 1:00 at KINU, meet the kids and their robots 

Mikono Business Consult will be conducting a training on how to be an excellent sales & marketing executive. The training will also include how structure and execute effective and goal-oriented marketing plans by using social media.

Time: Saturday 4th May 2013 from 1400-1600hrs

Location: Kinu Hub

Cost: Free

This year KINU has teamed up with TANZICT, TCRA and CIA to organize a 2 day International Girls in ICT Day event on 24th and 25th of April.

On day one, the 24th of April, 50 female Secondary and University students from the Dar es Salaam area, including Makongo High School, Jangawani Girls School, Zanaki High School, Benjamin Mkapa High School, Loyola High School and Tambaza, will go on field trips to various organizations within the ICT sector. These organizations include Uhuru One, Tigo, Airtel and Seacom. The field trips are aimed at opening young girls eyes to the opportunities the ICT sector holds for their future.

Day two will see 200 girls from the same schools take part in a 1 day workshop and learning event. The group of 50 who participated in the field trip will present to their peers what they learned on their field trips; they will get a chance to listen to and meet Tanzanian women are are excelling in the ICT sector, and learn new skills at the workshop sessions.

Please note that KINU will be closed on the 24th of April, as the space is dedicated to the workshop for young women.

Fathima Cader has over a decade of award-winning experience in web design. She codes primarily in XHTML and CSS. Her specific fields of expertise include WordPress custom builds, online accessibility, and social media integration. As well, she holds a law degree from the University of British Columbia and has worked on the legal side of internet policy and intellectual property issues. She is particularly interested in making the technology sector more inclusive of historically excluded communities. Find her at http://fathimacader.com and her design studio at http://facebook.com/ltwdesigns.

Craig Ross has been a part of RLabs since its inception in 2007. He is a graduate of the the world’s first Social Media for Social Change training course. At RLabs he is responsible for operations and the development of ideas to into practical innovation.

Craig is also the founder of Digital Factory, a startup within RLabs. Digital Factory develops online media strategies and consults on organizational social media. Craig has a natural curiosity that allows him to always bring new ideas to the table. In 2011, Craig was recognized by Mail & Guardian as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans.

<Code> Ninja is a reoccurring series of programming competitions that will be held at KINU.

Developers will gather at KINU on Saturdays for several hours to attempt programming competitions that will be judged by an automated judging system. The challenges will range in difficulty and programming language.

Will you be the one to defeat Boniface “The Godfather” Chacha in the ultimate battle of coding skill?

Technological innovation is taking place at a breath-taking pace. Simple, open source internet-based applications and services designed to enhance on-line collaboration are now available to the wider public at little or no cost at all. These new online technologies known as Web 2.0 and Social Media applications enable people to collaborate to create, share and publish information.The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation EU-ACP (CTA) has a mandate to facilitate access to and dissemination of information in the fields of agriculture and rural development in 78 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). Supporting the adoption of Web 2.0 applications represents a great opportunity for meeting it.

KINU in collaboration with CTA will host a 5-day Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity on 06 – 10 May, 2013. Participants will be introduced to selected web 2.0 applications including social media and will learn how to use them hands-on.

The Learning Opportunity will cover advanced online searching, getting information served via alerts and RSS, collaborating remotely using wikis and Google Docs, using VoIP, online mapping and social networking. Participants will get a chance to see what others have done, get hands on experience on how to use innovative applications, and assess how they could adopt these innovations within the context of their work and organisation.

This Learning Opportunity forms part of CTA initiatives that support development partners in networking, accessing and disseminating information more effectively.

For more information check out http://www.web2fordev.net/component/content/article/1-latest-news/221

Important note regarding participation:
Participation in the Learning Opportunity is free of charge, but subject to acceptance by the organisers. 25 participants will be accepted for the event.

Eligibility criteria:
 be computer literate and conversant with browsing the Internet;
 have regular access to a computer (ownership of a computer is an advantage);
 be in a position to take along a WIFI-enabled laptop to the training;
 be competent in the use of the English language;
 have an active e-mail account;
 be actively engaged in agriculture and rural development / natural resource management / biodiversity conservation in the domains of ICT for development (ICT4D), policies, markets; publishing, communication and media
 be resident in Tanzania.

Responsibilities
Accepted participants will be responsible for all costs related to their travel to and from the venue at KINU, their accommodation, breakfast and supper, their daily subsistence allowances, and for bringing their own WIFIenabled laptop to the event.

If you are interested in applying, fill out this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/web2lo-kinu-tza-01
Deadline for application: 18 April, 2013. 

The organisers will inform successful applicants about the status of their application two weeks before the commencement of the course. Successful applicants will receive confirmation letters and others will also be duly informed about the results of their application.

The m:lab Team will be at KINU to discuss this years Pivot East competition  from 6pm-8.30pm on Wednesday April 10th 2013.

m:lab East Africa will be holding the finalists conference of the third PIVOT East on 25th -26th June 2013 in Kampala, Uganda. PIVOT East is East Africa’s premier mobile start-ups pitching competition and conference held annually since 2011. PIVOT East aims to catalyse the growth of mobile start-ups, so as to amplify and consolidate the gains of East Africa’s Mobile developer and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

The key objective for this year’s event is “to facilitate the discovery of the next wave of high potential mobile start-ups”. The main difference between this year’s competition and the previous years’ is its focus on start-ups becoming sustainable enterprises as opposed to merely showcasing mobile applications and their mobile developers.

PIVOT East 2013 has five competitive categories for Mobile Finance, Mobile Enterprise, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Society and Mobile Utilities. Each category will feature five finalists who will pitch to Investors, Development Partners, Government Representatives, Telecom Operators and other key industry players from East Africa. Finalists will also secure business incubation for their start-ups, virtually or physically at m:lab East Africa.

Register for the event here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5965297365

Applications to the competition are being received at entries.pivoteast.com. The applications close on the 15th April 2013. For more information on PIVOT East 2013, please visit our website at www.pivoteast.com, follow us on Twitter @PivotEast, find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PivotEast or visit us on Google+ at PivotEast.

Please email us on pivot@mlab.co.ke if you require any additional information about PIVOT East 2013.