Event Participants
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DrumNet
- Jonathan Campaigne is the executive director of Pride Africa (http://www.drumnet.org/projects.htm). We are supporting Pride Africa's DrumNet initiative which is implementing a commercial ICT based information exchange platform to promote financial and non-financial transactions linking markets, micro entrepreneurs, smallholder farmers and the formal sector. The DrumNet software application is being developed as an Open Source initiative.
- Kadhija Shamte
- Anjna Shah
- Joseph McMahan
- Mark Steudel worked with PRIDE AFIRCA over the last year as a U.S. ICT Peace Corps Volunteer. He and his wife, also a ICT volunteer with PRIDE AFRICA, spent their time living in Bungoma and Nairobi working on the DrumNet project, both in the field with the farmers and working with the software developers in Nairobi. A lot of their time was spent helping to translate on the ground field experiences into requirements for the developers. Mark is currently living in Cape Town where he is starting up his own software development company.
- Robert Kinuthia
- Joseph Okomba
- Luke Ouko
OpenMRS (http://www.openmrs.org)
- Ben Wolfe (lead programmer, OpenMRS @ Regenstrief)
- Justin Miranda (programmer, Partners-in-Health)
- Chris Seebregts (Management team) is a scientist and manager in biomedical informatics research at the South African Medical Research Council, University of KwaZulu-Natal and University of South Africa; member of the core management team of the OpenMRS collaborative working particularly on the African OpenMRS imeplementers/developers network, PDA and mobile phone extensions and on the OASIS project (Open Architectures, Standards and Information Systems) for healthcare in Africa, funded by IDRC.
AVOIR
- Derek Keats is a professor at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa and he is the project leader of an initiative called AVOIR (http://avoir.uwc.ac.za) which is an initiative to develop Open Source software engineering capacity through a network of African universities.
- Bishar Mohamd Duble
- Dan Orwa
- David Wafula
- Enver Ravat
- Felixa Korli
- Paul Wando
TradeNet
TradeNet is a mobile-based information service focussing on rural agric communities. Active in 13 countries, it is available freely to anyone anywhere to setup, a bit like FaceBook for farmers on mobile... features setting up SMSfriends and networks and updating webspaces from mobile phones... Moving from market prices, towards supplychain tools, TradeNet is seeking deeper implementation in west africa to understand how the technology can be used. Built on both opensource and proprietary tools.
- Mark Davies will be participating.
IDRC
- Steve Song is Manager Director of Connectivity Africa. He has worked in the area of ICTs for Development since 1991. He was involved in the early development of the Internet in the non-profit community in South Africa including developing the first website for non-profits in South Africa and launching the first online searchable newspaper archive in Africa. Connectivity Africa is an initiative hosted by IDRC that is part of Canada's response to the G8 Africa Action Plan. Connectivity Africa's mission is to accelerate innovation,adoption, and development in ICTs in Africa.
- Edith Adera
- Gladys Githaiga
- Nancy Ndung'u (nndungu@idrc.or.ke) is Program Assistant with IDRC's ACACIA Program in the Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO), based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has been working on logistics for this Workshop.
Aspiration
- Allen Gunn is the executive director of Aspiration (http://www.aspirationtech.org). He has over twenty years of software development and capacity building expertise. He has shepherded large software projects through all stages of development: from inception, design, development, and testing to deployment, support and marketing in environments ranging from start-up to large corporation to non-profit. Gunner is also a very experienced workshop facilitator.
