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When:29-31 October 2010

Where:Nairobi,Kenya

What: IPO48 is a boot-camp-style initiative to build new web and mobile services in just 48 hours.

IPO48 starts already 10 days before the actual get-together in Nairobi. Everybody can submit business ideas on HumanIPO, that way all participants can learn and evaluate ideas, ask questions, give their comments and find the potential ideas they would like to work on. On 26th of October we will announce 20 most popular business plans, which will be presented by the authors on Friday evening in IPO48.

IPO48 will peak with the new product demonstration on Sunday evening where the judges will pick the winner of the event. Besides of having strong technological solution for the product/service, the winning team needs to highly focus on their business model.

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Her work, born out of her for love of Africa and her multicultural influences ( her parents are from Sao Tomé,she was born in Berlin,lived in Paris, and now resides and works  in New York ) her respect for life and her pride in being a woman , is a true reflection of the fiery passions that lie within her soul.[Source]

Adjoua Konan Ehouman & Samuel Ouedraogo are both from the Ivory Coast. Adjoua is an aspiring model and Samuel is a 16 years old image manipulation obsessed yong man.
Samuel Ouedraogo who saw the untouched image of Adjoua on BDLM,was inspired by her demeanor and recreated what he saw in her and the pose.

Note: Samuel Ouedraogo happens to be an intern @ AMN.

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-The penetration rate of mobile service had risen to 49.7 per 100 inhabitants in Kenya. The recent tariff reductions by Kenyan mobile operators will certainly perk up these figures. Mobile technology is destined a significant role in detecting, mapping and responding to epidemics as happened in a recent polio outbreak in Kenya recently. [Source]

-Opera village near Ouagadougou worth 2 million Euros will be built by architect extraordinaire Francis Kere. [ Source]

-3 million years of Kenyan history to be distributed online and accessed from mobile phones.[Source ]

-The music and ideas of Oumou Sangaré [Source ]

-650 Engineers, Designers, Web Developers, Entrepreneurs and Students learned how Google hope to spur Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa and even closer to home Uganda.[Source]

-Zain announced a partnership with IBM to roll out a $1.5 billion infrastructure to be based in Kenya which would support among many other things a Music(think iTunes) and App store (Thin Ovi). [source]

–Ciment institute to be established in Nigeria.[Source]

-Sudan has unveiled plans to redesign a number of its cities into the shape of animals. The southern capital of Juba – reportedly one of the fastest growing cities in the world, is to be relocated and restructured into the shape of a rhinoceros. [Source]

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Nairobi,Kenya-
Virtual City has decided to address systemic issues along the Supply Chain for distributors and retailers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods in emerging markets. The Mobile Distributor Solution is designed to contribute to improved efficiencies and value to all the stakeholders in the value chain and result in increased number of transactions, accurate records, improved Inventory management & reporting from the field and effective management decision making.

Their solution can be opening up increased product sales coupled with additional benefits of mobile payment capabilities, transaction fees revenue, loyalty programs benefits, and more all facilitated by inexpensve and affordable mobile phones

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