MobileActive.org published an article recently describing the growing popularity of mobile development bootcamps in Africa. You can find the articles here. Strathmore’s Bootcamp and AITI were mentioned prominently:
Strathmore University held its second Mobile Boot Camp this summer. The inaugural camp was held in November of 2008. The camps were spearheaded by Jessica Colaço, Research Leader at Strathmore Research and Consultancy Centre (SRCC). J2ME and Java breakout sessions were facilitated by Michael Wakahe of Shujaa Solutions Ltd and Michael Gordon, president of MIT’s Africa Internet Technology Initiative (AITI).
A team of students from the MIT–AITI assisted in the lab this summer, an example of how camps are mentoring for the next generation of technology teachers and leaders. Colaço also belongs to the first class of the EPROM program that Nathan Eagle founded at MIT. Coincidence?
Read the entire article; it is interesting, and there is more on AITI (it evens mentions this blog!). The article has one factual error. It mentions the team that won AITI’s Mobile Application Development Competition. This team won the competition that was associated with AITI’s 6-week course; they did not participate in the bootcamp competition.