Finalists of the Mobile Garage Students’ Exhibition
Name: Mukeli Matei.
Application Name: Fishmate
Fishmate – A mobile application that connect fishermen, fish-farmers, fish consumers’ industry players and YOU in one market place.
Name: Jacob Omollo.
Application Name: M-Life Saver,
M-Life Saver is an android application that helps in reporting of emergency cases. It is triggered by rotating the phone a time when you cannot make a call neither can you write a text message, tensed environment! It gets your current location and sends in two ways: via SMS and to a Web Server. The SMS goes to anybody you trust of help (Kenya Police or Kenya Red Cross) upon which gets your location and trace you. Web server helps people to share via Google maps through Facebook, Twitter or SMS.
Name: Moffat Ngacha.
Application Name: ClubSoci,
ClubSoci is a Java ME (J2ME) mobile application that enables students and university staff to access different types of information in their universities. The users are able to see what’s happening in their university/college, share their thoughts and opinions as well and socialize with other users by posting to Facebook, Twitter and friends via SMS.
Name: Thomas Kioko.
Application Name: Nduru,
Nduru is a one-stop mobile application intended to manage almost all incidences related to road safety. The application brings between various services by creating inter-connectivity among different parties and gives power to common “mwananchi” (Citizen) to take charge of their own safety through the mobile phone.
Name: Kiplangat Victor Chelule.
Application Name: mScheduler,
mScheduler is a mobile application meant for students. The application integrates a timetable based on the course a student is taking and their year of study featuring classes, assignments, exams date, continuous assessment dates. It also offers a news and announcements section, events section, hotlines, and services such as fee balance inquiry, exams results check and even reporting lost and found items.
A unique thing about mScheduler is that it is not tailored for only one institution, with a powerful administration back-end built with code-igniter, everything is customizable.
Name: George Mbuthia.
Application Name: FairPrice,
FairPrice is an API that mobile applications can consume and use to collect commodity prices, and provide a platform for bidding on the commodities and allow farmers to get the best prices for their commodities. For consumers it will allow them to get the best prices for food, from local traders around them.
Name: Denis Kariuki.
Application Name: E-Notice,
E-Notice is a J2ME application that uses bluetooth to post notices to all the users connected to the server. The app is expected to be applicable in any institution or organization that has everyday activities that need its’ users to be notified of any event, meeting or any other urgent information.
Name: David Mabiria
Application Name: UASAY,
UASAY is a real time web and mobile based SMS application that is used to interact with the audience in a workshop/conference (i.e. getting their feedback and replying to them), and also used in retail shops, supermarkets, banking halls & media houses to get their customers/clients/viewers feedback either as views/comments/their say/complaints & being able to reply to the same.
Name: Newton Kitonga.
Application Name: KUSSD,
KUSSD is an Android application that lists popular mobile services in Kenya, including USSD codes, SMS short-codes and M-Pesa Paybill numbers. These services are very many, hence hard to remember. There are currently over 552 M-Pesa Paybill numbers and growing in Kenya, and it is very hard to remember a 6 digit number everyday as you try to pay your bills. Information on these numbers is very fragmented on the Internet thus very cumbersome to search for them online. This is where KUSSD will help you with a convenient listing of all this services and more.
Name: Kennedy Nyaga.
Application Name: Mingle,
At dot idea we develop Mingle an SMS based real time chat application for youth especially in college to meet and make new friends.
Name: Kipkemoi Kirui Leonard.
Application Name: Mobi-Vet,
Mobi-Vet is a Mobile based Application targeting Daily farmers. Farmers should be able to find veterinary officer and AI provider based on their locations, check their new dairy feeds in the market and learn about various types of dairy breeds.
Name: Wendo Oriri.
Application Name: Swa for Chinese,
This is a Mobile based application that translates words and phrases from the English language to Swahili to Chinese and vice versa.
The words are described and a synonym where applicable .The application also plays audio files of how each word is pronounced.
Name: Vivian Chename.
Application Name: uniSoko,
This application is useful for buying and selling second hand goods between students of the various universities and campuses. Buyers are able to view categories of different products ranging from clothing, electronics, stationery and more. They are also able to contact the sellers immediately.
For the sellers it eliminates the need to place posters all over the place and get buyers quickly. The sellers have to create an account for them to be able to advertise on the app by paying a small fee for each product which will be a source of revenue for us.
Name: Kichi shiojili and Jacob Teko.
Application Name: MatNavi,
MatNavi is an application that is a mobile guide on Matatu transportation in Nairobi.
