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.

In addition to

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