International

We have been working extensively in Senegal but have been extending our reach to Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and, even, Cambodia. Dr. Scharff is an associate professor at Pace University and she has been using the material also in her courses at Pace University.

  • Benin

We organized 2 mobile training sessions in Benin in collaboration with local partners.

The first one (2012) took place at EtriLabs. It gathered 25 developers and focused on Java ME. 6 mobile apps were realized during the training. The instructional material is available in our Moodle instance.

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The second one (2014) was organized by MTN Benin as part of the 2014MTN Apps challenge. It focused on brainstorming, UX/UI, jQuery Mobile and quality assurance. 25 participants attended the training. Dr. Scharff was invited by MTN Benin to conduct the training. The instructional material is available in GitHub.

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  • Burkina Faso

The jQuery Mobile content we developed has been used during the training of 15 female mobile developers in Burkina Faso. The training was organized by the Foundation for Women, ICT and Sustainable Development. The official web site of the training is available here.

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(Image taken from the official web page)

  • Ivory Coast

Landry Ahouanssou, one of coordinators of MobileSenegal, carried out a jQuery Mobile training in Ivory Coast by invitation of Orange Labs. The training was part of the InnovAfrica conference.

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  • Cambodia

We presented on jQuery Mobile at Build Bright University in Siem Riep in December 2012. Dr. Scharff worked for AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) in 2009-2010 and lived in Cambodia. She has been leading several projects in education in Cambodia.

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  •  US

Dr. Scharff has been offering courses on mobile technology at the high school, undergraduate and graduate levels at Pace University. She designed 3 courses: Native Mobile App Development (Android Java), Mobile Web & Content, and Mobile Innovations for Global Challenges. The newest version of the courses integrate the use of Google Glass and Android Wear.

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