MobiTechno, the team that won first prize at our Mobile Application Competition, has some dramatic updates.  The team has developed their AITI project into a registered Kenyan company.  They have also copyrighted their idea.  More exciting, their service is now hosted in Kenya with an SMS service provider.  The service has an SMS shortcode which allows users to access their service via SMS with a short, 5 digit number.  They are meeting with advisors and venture capitalists, contacts they made through the AITI course.  The service is currently being tested through a limited rollout.  More news as it develops.

The members of AITI Kenya are now all back from their various travels.  We are in the process of consolidating the end of the course and responding to email and events that occurred while we were traveling.  We are sorry for the delay for those who have emailed us or posted to the forums.  As you may notice, we have updated the blog with events of the last week of the course.  It was unfortunate that the final day of the course had to be pushed back to Monday the 20th of July because of Strathmore graduation.  This did not allow the instructors any time to organize after the course ended, as originally planned we had 3 days for this.  We left for our travels immediately on the morning of the 21st.

Enjoy the posts below, and if you are awaiting contact from us, rest assured that we are back. BTW, our travels were excellent.