Archive for June 8th, 2008

Android Developer Challenge Round One Winners

Published by Babar Bhatti on June 8, 2008 under Entrepreneurship, ICT, Information Technology, Location Based Services, M-Commerce, Mobile Applications, Social Networks, Telecommunications

The first 50 (46 to be exact, 4 chose to remain under-cover) have been announced at the official site. Here’s another post with links. I’ve reproduced the partial list below. If you are looking for descriptions of all winner apps, best way is to get the 5MB slide deck in pdf here which gives a good summary for each application. Social networking and location based apps are certainly in the spotlight. I also liked the AndroidScan as it is likely to spawn more apps.

AndroidScan- Barcode scan from phone to get pricing and other data - Jeffrey Sharkey
Beetaun - Social network around geographical content - Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov
BioWallet- biometric authentication system for cell phones - Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez
Commandro - Location-bases networking - Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha
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Telecom Laboratory At Govt College of Technology Lahore To Provide Diplomas In Telecom

Published by Babar Bhatti on June 8, 2008 under Telecommunications

Telecom Futures - an initiative of Telenor Pakistan with Nokia-Siemens and TEVTA (Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority, Punjab) has announced a new lab in Lahore. This 2-year telecom diploma program was launched in 2006 and is running at Government Polytechnic Institute Attock and the Government Institute of Technology DG Khan. This is a good example of industry-government-academia collaboration to solve the talent gap problem and to provide skills in areas where there is a huge demand for local training.

Some background from Telenor website:

Telenor Pakistan and its industry partners, Nokia and Siemens, realize that vocational training institutes are building human capital from the lower socioeconomic classes and there is a huge opportunity to help them get their fair share from the Telecom Promise. The Telecom Futures program aims at building on TEVTA’s Higher National Diploma in Telecom by aligning curriculum with industry expectations, providing advanced trainings and rewards to teachers, sharing specialized equipment with students, and offering internships or jobs to suitable diploma holders. The target is to create a scalable model for large-scale implementation, an education and training model that improves the level of human resource created locally, and increases the employability of vocational diploma holders.

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