Research

Study: Big mansion, high-end lifestyle top of our list, say EA youths

East African youths have an overwhelming desire to be rich, are increasingly spending more of their parent’s money on mobile credit and shifting their music tastes to local artistes, according to a study done by Consumer Insight.

What generation Y employees really want

‘I want to move up the corporate ladder faster. I don’t like being micro-managed and am not that into facebook or twitter.’ This is the myth-busting finding from a Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) research released last week in Nairobi. According to the report, generation Y employees are generally misunderstood by HR and other senior managers.

Build your skills in Mobile IT

Safaricom Academy/Strathmore University
Introduction to Mobile Application Development
31st May to 2nd July 2010

The Safaricom Academy is geared towards creating the necessary competence through leveraging on existing academic institutions by enhancing their curriculae to create the competence. Further to this, the Academy owns an incubation centre that offers an environment where young minds will be able to develop and create innovative applications. The main goals of this programme therefore are;
1. Promoting local innovation in developing relevant applications in our market today.
2. Creating an enabling environment for the development of relevant mobile applications.
3. Attracting companies with applications to host them within our portal

The current course will introduce participants to the Safaricom Academy. The course will cover an introduction to Telecommunications: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA and Wimax; Java Programming, Developing and testing SMS and USSD applications. For further information, go to: www.strathmore.edu/mobile/SafaricomAcademy.php

Selection Criteria
1. Be self-motivated and have a strong interest in Mobile Application Development as a career.
2. Be a recent graduate or final year student in a Degree/Diploma in information technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Business Information Technology or equivalent course.
3. Should have attained an upper Second/Distinction or equivalent.
4. Have experience in Java Programming and object-oriented design
5. Have a good knowledge of a relational database management system
6. Be fully available to attend this course for its entire duration (5 weeks on a full time base)
7. Experience handling SMS API's will be an added advantage.

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