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Coders4Africa In Action in Accra Ghana - March 3rd 2012 at BusyInetnetSaturday, March 3, 2012 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT)Accra, Ghana |
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Event Details
This event will take place the 3rd of march from 3PM to 6PM at BusyInternet (Ring Road Central) in Accra Ghana.
Please register now as space is limited to 50 people!! This event will be on first come fist serve basis!!
The first goal of the meeting is to inform the community on Coders4Africa 2012 program for Ghana. We will hold a code session and demo based on the technology you chose, in this session, developers with ideas are encouraged to bring their ideas on board so that their colleagues can help them refine their ideas.
The other goal is to bring together under one roof local programmers and startups companies, Tech Firms, interesting projects and local Ghanaian enterprises. The idea is for them to l showcase their activities but also work with the audience in trying to find solutions to their current IT projects.
If you are a startup and want to demo a product you are working on please contact: Kossi Selom Banybah, Prince Nyarko or use the contact us link in the event page.
There will giveaways during the meeting.
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AGENDA
3:15 PM Welcome Keynote C4A Overview by Kwame Andah
C4A Vision, Strategy and goals respective to the Ghana Chapter
Kwame is a co-founder, Director of Marketing & Communications, as well as the C4A Ghana chapter Director. As an IT professional with over 10 years of experience serving as operations liaison between technical and non-technical teams with individuals within the United States and abroad. He holds a BS in Management of Information Systems from Saint Joseph's University and a MS in Internet Marketing from Full Sail University. With over 10 years of experience working in the higher education software industry with as a Technical/Systems Analyst and Project Manager, Kwame possess strong interpersonal communication, negotiation and project management skills.
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3:30 PM C4A 2012 program overview by Kossi Selom Banybah and Prince Nyarko
In 2012, C4A will focus its energy on 3 main areas: training, community support and DevHub. At first, we would like to deliver practical training to 100 candidates who will be selected from the current community members. And we want make sure our training model is successful first before we scale for more candidates. The second objective which is one of the most important is to continue to support and sustain our ~1000 members in our community. We are planning to do this in a format of various activities. And lastly but not least, we want to create one IT Hub dubbed DevHub, which is a crucial element to our sustainability model.
Prince and Selom are Team Leads for the C4A Ghana chapter.
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4:00 PM C4A 2012 Updates from E. Africa by Joseph Mokaya - C4A Kenya Tech Mgr
Whenever we can we will have some other Team Leads from a different country participate in order to strengthen the Pan-African view of our initiative. Joseph will will speak briefly about what events they have been having in Kenya and will share his experience thus far.
Joseph Mokaya lives in Kenya and works in Strathmore University the Faculty of Information Technology. He is a software developer using the following languages; C++, JAVA, PHP, J2ME, Jquery mobile and ANDROID. He has a fantasy for mobile programming.
Currently, he is working on Kuzabiz a business intelligence tool to measure performance of small businesses in Africa and a health system that will help civilians access cheap and accredited medication from hospitals that are certified by the government.
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4:15 PM Oracle Application Express (APEX) Web Application development discovery by Prince Nyarko
APEX no cost option of the Oracle database. Provide rapid web application development tool for the Oracle DB. Using only a web browser and minimal coding experience, can develop and deploy professional fast and secure apps
Prince Nyarko is an Oracle Database Administrator/Programmer with 5 years experience in this field. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Ghana, Legon. In addition to this he is certified by Oracle as a Database SQL Expert and also certified as an associate fellow of Oracle (OCA). Prince currently holds a position as a Database Administrator at Integrators b2b. He has experience in various industries: Financial, Transport and Software development.Technology he mostly used: Oracle Database10g, Oracle Application Express, MySQL 5.0, Oracle Application Development Framework(ADF) and PL/SQL. Prince is the Coders4Africa Event Coordinator & communication manager for the Ghana team.
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4:35 PM Web Scraping, An Important Technique For Data Extraction by Ransford Ako Okpoti
Introduces Web Scraping using PHP as a valuable alternative to extract data from other websites in the absence of APIs in Africa. Demonstrating how to fetch related data and producing outputs in standard formats such as json, xml, csv, etc.
Ransford Ako Okpoti is a Zend PHP5 Certified developer and consultant. A web application developer, with over 5 years of experience, focused on developing with emerging technologies and techniques on a LAMP stack. Developer of PHP EntityValidator, an entity validation framework in PHP which conforms to the JSR-303 (Bean Validation) Specification in Java. He has been exploring some cloud-based platforms like Google App Engine, etc. He has a passion for exploring effective ways of using technology to enhance operations of organizations.
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5:00 PM Web Application development with Microsoft .NET, C# and the MVC Pattern (ASP.NET MVC 3) using the Code First approach enabled by the Entity Framework 4 by Kossi Selom Banybah
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using well-established design patterns and the power of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework
Kossi Selom Banybah is a Software Developer with over 2 years of experience. He holds a Bsc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Lome, Togo and a Professional Diploma in Information Technology from NIIT, Ghana.Technology he mostly used: Microsoft .Net Framework, Java EE, MS Sql Server, MySQL 5.0. Selom is the Coders4Africa Technical Manager for the Ghana team.
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Busy Internet
Ring Road East
Accra,
Greater Accra
Ghana
Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT)
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Coders4Africa Team
Our Mission:
To create and support a Pan-African community of competent, internationally certified IT professionals focused on developing the IT tools for African Agriculture, Business, Education, Health Care, Government and general Social needs.
STRATEGY:
To leverage the rapid development and evolution of the wireless communications and Internet access platform in Africa to educate, certify and continue to support a 1000+ cadre of IT professionals.
GOALS:
- To educate and accredit 1000 Pan-African software developers utilizing mobile, web and database development platforms by 2016.
- To build capacity by introducing DevHubs across Africa, providing developers an open space to innovate and create solutions that solve problems their community faces.
- To create, via these solutions, economic development and growth across local communities, including the smallest farmers and businesses.
- To utilize the Pan-African community of IT professionals to create free Open Source solutions that respond to local African problems and demand.
- To stimulate growth of the African software industry by tapping into local talent and human resources.
- To assure the Pan-African community becomes a catalyst, playing a prominent role in providing technology-based tools in Agriculture, Business, Education, Health Care, Government and general Social needs.
COMPANY STRUCTURE:
Coders4Africa is an independent nonprofit organization that provides training, education and development infrastructure, logistics and intellectual support to IT professionals in Africa. In accordance with the Coders4Africa Charter, the Coders4Africa Board provides leadership, and makes program decisions. The organization's activities are enhanced by the active participation of its members. Coders4Africa membership consists of software developers and computer science students funded by the organization, and associates and partners with membership granted by the Coders4Africa principals.