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| Mr. Makamba Speking on the Event |
Yesterday at
Kinu launching event was the greatest moment for me as a tech guy in Tanzania, the
event was like, WOW. Every big fish in the Tanzania tech industry was there
from the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology his Excellency
January Makamba to the
college lecturers, tech enthusiasts, media, bloggers and MD’s of big tech
companies in Dar. It was a great opportunity for young entrepreneur in tech to have
access to these guys and share their ideas with them. Personally I collected
over eight business cards from sensitive people in the Tanzanian tech
community.
I arrived
there bit late as usual Dar es Salaam traffic, by the time I arrive JP Barretto the
co-founder of Kinu co creation hub was pitching about Kinu to the audience. He was
pitching about the necessity of having things like Kinu, the concept of hubs,
their vision and mission and why people should support these kinds of project.
The presentation was neat and cool for just like 3 minutes you were able to
understand everything about Kinu. I just hope he has shared the slide online I will
post the link in the future.
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| The Audience listening attentively |
The event organizers
just did it, big up to the Kinu Team. Everyone was happy people felt like they
have been connected in some way since all of them share the same passion, which
is to see the Tanzania tech community advance to the next level. So many
companies send in their representatives i got the chance to speak with people
from Smile, Push Mobile, Clouds TV, TechnoBrain and even the
Tanzanian legendary blogger Issa Michuzi he actually told me that his blog
currently have 6 million hit per day. Big up Michuzi we all
respect your work.
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| Mr. Issa Michuzi |
The time for
the Deputy Minister and probably the guest of Honor arrived. It was just like
that, he was not prepared to speak but the speech was very cool he hit directly
to the point where the audience want to listen. He
talks about how innovation and co creation can help to boost the tech industry
in the country and enhance the development of the country in general. He spoke
about the TED speaker who explained on how improper system of education can
cripple person ability to become creative and innovative. I got
a chance to speak with him personally and we shared the same vision about how
the secondary schools and college labs can be converted into hubs and
incubation centers to cultivate into students innovative ideas. He said, this
was among his vision he hope one day it will work with proper incentives and
executable plans from the central government.
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| The Kinu Team |
Before I forgot
I met Bary the Developer from California who is interested to meet with Tanzanian
developer to start some open source programmmes please contact me if you are
interested to meet Bary. He is just a cool and simple guy. Before I forgot I got
the chance to meet the guy who wants to teach robotics in Tanzania. Seriously
for the first time in my life I heard someone teaching robotics down here. I
got the chance to talk to Mr. Peter Baziwe
Kisa. I asked him some few questions on how is he going to teach
among the most complicated field of tech to the Tanzanian youth. He told me
forgot about the python and complicate robotic models he is going to start with
the basic that why he said he will prefer young kids from the age of seven to
be his first students since the reason he started the project it’s because he
is doing good with his own son on teaching him robotics. He
told me the concept is simple, he just create the team of those kids while
others are doing programming, some of them will do structuring, other will play
with electric chips at the end they will combine the ideas and he will selected
the most active one to accomplish the complete task with them. It was just marvelous. The programme is going to
start on October please contact Kinu Hub to register your kid for the programme
otherwise you can email us greentech360@gmail.com
we will help you to connect with the guy.
I will be
in trouble if I don’t recognize the presence of other founders of Kinu Hub,
Luca Neghesti, Catherinerose Barretto, Emmanuel Feruzi, Johannes. Seriously a
lot of tech guys were there Dr. Jim Yonazi, Managing Director of Push Mobile Freddie
Manento with his comrade from Push Mobile Mr. Gonzaga Rugambwa who just appear
to be the organizer of techno-Sunday and so many other tech guys including my
right hand man Mr.Tony Severine and the team behind the upcoming college event
in Tanzania Oleshumpai Salim and Thompson Maguru. Oh my God I was about to
forgot Jukka Silatanen from TanzICT our mentor was there also, sorry Jukka and so many other cool
guys.
TECH360 Correspondent