Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications (http://www.esmt.sn)
5 days, 20 students (from 3 countries – Senegal, Benin and Togo), 5 mobile applications
Theme: Mobile Solutions, Local Cultures and Languages
Sponsors: IBM (through a grant to ESMT) and ESMT
Organizers: Jean-Marie Preira (ESMT, Dakar, Senegal); James Tamgno (ESMT, Dakar, Senegal)
Guests: Mamadou Ndiaye(IBM, West Africa); Abdoulaye Mbaye (Neurotech, Senegal); Babacar Ngom (UCAD, Dakar, Senegal)
Judges: Samba Ba (ESMT, Dakar, Senegal); Babacar Ngom (UCAD, Dakar, Senegal); Mamadou Diop (ESMT, Dakar, Senegal); Ghislain Akinocho (ESMT, Bull, Dakar, Senegal)
Speakers: Abdoulaye Mbaye (Neurotech, Senegal) on being an entrepreneur in Senegal; Babacar Ngom (UCAD, Dakar, Senegal) on innovative projects related to mobile lead by UCAD; Jean-Marie Preira (ESMT, Dakar, Senegal) on Mobile Web
Dr. Christelle Scharff was involved as an instructor in the bootcamp that took place at ESMT.
Students’ work:
- 1st place – lambj provides information about Senegalese wrestling. It permits users to suggest fights and vote for their preferred wrestlers.
- Team:
- Zeynab Sylla
- Seydina Issa Paté
- Cheikh Manga
- Souleymane Sidibé
- Presentation (PowerPoint)
- Team:
- Geo Educ permits to learn geographic information about Senegal, Togo and Benin and provides a quiz to evaluate users’ knowledge.
- Team:
- Binetou DIALLO
- James GAGLO
- Eunice ATTIGNON
- David WOGORMEBU
- Presentation (PDF)
- Team:
- Togou Mame provides recipes of the most popular dishes and drinks of Senegal.
- Team:
- Mama Fatoumata KOUYATE
- Maty KHOUMA
- Maguette DIOUF
- Fatou Konté SY
- Presentation (PDF)
- Team:
- Geo Sen provides tourists with information about the most popular tourist sites and teaches some words of Wolof.
- Team:
- Lucrece Togbe
- Yannick Grimmaud
- Houefa AWOHOUEDJI
- Cadnel ZOMAHOUN
- Presentation (PDF)
- Team:
- Sen Transport provides information about how to get from one place to another in Dakar using different transportation means: regular bus, rapid bus (car rapide) and dem dikk
- Team:
- Mylène Fatima ADIGOUN
- Hervé AKPO
- Hospice Segnonna HOUNSOU
- Abdourahmane SAKHO
- Presentation (PDF)
- Team: