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What is the future of #Mobile #Pedagogies for #Africa? Is the E-Learning Conference worth the cause?

E-Learning Africa Conference is not meant for Africa. This conference is not for African and it's for a selected few that is why the fees are stringely unaffordable to kick out those who cannot afford. Does this mean that Education is for few who can afford it? Just like the Ugandan Education System whereby those who can afford the high fees are the ones who benefit. If you cannot afford then you loose the truck of education worst comes to worst at the end of the day you all sit for the same National Examinations. And the same outstanding schools remain the same through and through. This is clearly portrayed in the E-Learning Conference, I will just pose a question - is e-Learning for the rich? Is Education for the rich? Then we have to think twice on how African Mobile Pedagogies are implemented for a Sustainable Education solutions in Africa.

If you can't afford the tution for the university, then you have to temporarily shield yourself from joining till you are able to afford. Furthermore the same applies to when you are looking forward to adopt the trends of Mobile Pedagogies and learning trends. Looking deeper into rural accessibility and connectivity, adopting the Educational tools remains a challenge, countries like Burundi remain in the dark continent of Africa where Connectivity is only in town and I got the internet in Bujumbura while I was there. Burundi has the lowest Internet Penetration Rate in East Africa. With high costs of Internet how do we expect the practitioners from Burundi attend this conference amidst the challenges.

There is strong need for appropriate advocacies and implementation of appropriate participatory approaches to solve African challenges. We African best understand our challenges and we know the solution to our challenges. We should not be shielded or blocked from solving our problems.

What is designed for Africa must be replicated in Africa.

#Africa #Mobile #Pedagogies #Learning #e-learning #challenges

A Good company and A Bad Company

In good organizations, people can focus on their work and have confidence that if they get their work done, good things will happen for both the company and them personally. It is a true pleasure to work in an organization such as this. Every person can wake up knowing that the work they do will be efficient, effective, and make a difference for the organization and themselves. These things make their jobs both motivating and fulfilling. In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not. In the miracle case that they work ridiculous hours and get the job done, they have no idea what it means for the company or their careers. To make it all much worse and rub salt in the wound, when they finally work up the courage to tell management how messed-up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, then defends the status quo, then ignores the problem.”

#company #organisation #boundaries

Time + money + scope = quality

I came across this interesting thing this morning when I was reading about time scope.

In slightly different terms, every project balances a “triangle” of time, money, and scope — you can’t change one without affecting at least one of the others. The project manager’s job is to keep the whole triangle from falling apart.

How? First, when a problem comes up, locate it on the project triangle — is it about time (schedule), money (budget), or scope? Second, figure out which sides of the triangle you can change and which are “fixed” in place. Third, adjust what you can to fix the problem and optimize the project. Fourth, finish the project and celebrate.

The quality of the project all comes after the three. Quality is the fourth part of the project triangle. It sits at the center, where any change to any side affects it.

For example, if you’re ahead of schedule, you might be able to replace cut features or allow more time for existing tasks. With this additional time and scope, the end result might be a better product.

Which tools are you using for managing your projects? It is very important to know the work flows and the respective resources. If you have any questions and challenges in managing your projects feel free and drop me an email: [email protected]

#money #time #scope #projects #quality

Who is #Heartbleed?

Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL, a software library of great significance, used by almost everyone (except Microsoft) for their SSL/TLS code. It's a truism of cryptographic applications programming that you don't write your own actual crypto code because it's so important and really hard to do right; you trust the operating system's library or some other well-established library, and in the real world that means, as a practical matter, either Windows Cryptographic API or OpenSSL (although there are others).

Obviously it's of critical importance that this code be as correct and unexploitable as possible. To whom is it important? To everyone with an interest in private communications. Heartbleed makes a mockery of this protection by exposing memory in the server, including private keys, to attackers. It has existed since December 31, 2011 and been in wide, and growing. use since the release of OpenSSL 1.0.1 on March 14, 2012.

If so many users, in government, private industry, non-profits, all over, are relying on this code, perhaps the security of it can't be left purely in the hands of the 15 men of the OpenSSL development team.

It's interesting that Heartbleed came out of a new feature added to TLS, the Heartbeat Extension. Last night I observed a Twitter fight between two security experts I follow (Dan Kaminsky and Thomas Ptacek) over whether it was a good idea to add the Heartbeat Extension to OpenSSL. The problem is in the implementation, not the protocol, but with such critical code (one of them argued) spurious features should not be added.

Heartbleed really is that bad. Your user-ids, your passwords, your credit-card numbers, everything you place online is potentially in play for hackers. You can not fool around with this.

It's been a while since there was a computer security bug that we all had to worry about. Unfortunately, it seems like we may all have been facing one for two years and not even realized it.

Earlier this week, security researchers announced a security flaw in OpenSSL, a popular data encryption standard, that gives hackers who know about it the ability to extract massive amount of data from the services that we use every day and assume are mostly secure.

This isn't simply a bug in some app that can quickly be updated - the vulnerability is in on the machines that power services that transmit secure information, like Facebook and Gmail. Read on to know more about how this affects you.

You can check specific sites with the Heartbleed test, LastPass Heartbleed checker, or the Qualys SSL Labs test. The first two just check on Heartbleed while the last checks for other possible Secure-Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) and awards sites a grade from A (the best) to F (failure).

#heartbleed #openssl #ssl #facebook #socket #cryptographic #programming #communication #government

Production Capacity - Creating regional/continental value chains, increasing local production and trade in goods produced in Africa.

"Without food, the medicines and drugs in hospitals and clinics become ineffective or even dangerous to the sick; children cannot learn well in schools; the labour force cannot be productive; you cannot maintain the police service and national defence forces and we cannot maintain peace keeping forces anywhere in the world", said H.E Prof. Bingu Wa Mutharika, President of the Republic of Malawi and Chairperson of the African Union, at the official opening session of the Conference African Ministers of Agriculture (CAMA), on 28 October 2010, in Lilongwe, Malawi

Africa has been postulated for a long time to be a food basket on the globe despite it being in the supply chain rooted in the ecosystem of organizations, activities, information, and resources involved in moving products or services from suppliers to customers in the world. Supply chain activities are key in the transformation of the natural resources, raw materials, and components into a finished product delivered to customers which have long before been drained from the African Continent. Supply chains link value chains. Africa has continued to be a dumping grant of expensive products that have been manufactured with raw materials from Africa.

The important component of the African Food Basket is the determination of the staples grown in different African countries and the creation of reliable data banks through the use of information and communication technologies. The concept comes from business management and was first described and popularized by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. Africa has all that is required; this is the time that all forces have to be geared towards implementation of appropriate practices to enhance productivity and increase in trade.

The Continental Free Trade Area matters for in the region because Africans know the solutions to the challenges they encounter. The Regional African integration is key and important for bringing together African Solutions for implementation in the African Diaspora. Communities in the Diaspora are tapping into African potential and capabilities in the shadow of the eclipse. To bring the light in visibility there is need to enhance value chains for African industries to manage the market structures.

Quoting my own theory “Nanghaka-Uri theory” that I have been studying for over 6years; based on the way humans urinate. When one urinates, the last drop will always fall where one is standing. There has been focus on the emerging African economies, according to Daniel Nanghaka the author of this post, when shall we stop emerging? This is the time for impact and evolutional growth through ethical and sustainable business practices through appropriate standards in the Ecosystem. This is the point that the last urine drop will impact deeply Africa and continue to serve the world.

Africa has the potential to increase its production and trade. Resources are available but there aren’t utilized to their fullness. Africa economy is based on Agriculture, hence there is need for more agro processing plants and enhancement of knowledge and skills in the Educational systems to boost the industry.

I will pose a question – How can we increase the Local production? We have to fight the vice of brain-drain in Africa which is a cancer that is eating up Africa. The greatest loop hole in the Region is the poverty song, I hate this song because we are rich; and we have potential. When will Poverty stop being a song? We very well know pedagogies and collaborative technologies are needed to increase local production and valuing of the produce that comes from Africa.

Quoting HE President Museveni during the recent strikes of Teachers, he says that there is need to improve the road network to enhance transport of goods and services. This leads to increase in trade and production processes for Africa. This infrastructure leads to reduction in costs and time for moving goods to destinations across the region and the continent hence increase in production and increase in trade. Developing innovative mechanisms for multi-country infrastructure projects as well as prioritizing continental infrastructure programmes/initiatives is key. Road, Rail and Marine network are key in enhancing trade in the region. A good road network will lead to improvement communication and transportation of goods from one point to another.

To increase Trade in Africa there is need for the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) Policies for Development be put with focus on the historical disruption that have taken place in African economies. There is a need to mainstreaming and implementing coherent and efficient trade policies between Africa nations to foster increase in the Investment multiplier.

#Africa #investment #policies #development #infrastructure #investors #innovation #innovative #poverty #diaspora

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What is Africa's problem?

Africa does not need democracy, it needs to embrace the challenges it encounters and reduce on foreign Influence. Democracy has no meaning in Africa where the minority are oppressed. Africa needs sound leaders and resources that are assigned to promote democracy geared towards Development. Africa is a revolutionary continent where Revolutions and transformation eat up the growing demand. Vices encountered in the development agenda are drilled by corruption. Africa's challenge is not Technology - The challenge eating up Africa is uneven distribution of resources toasted with corruption. For development, is geared by veblem effect of resources. Whether we like it or not, the Internet will be extended to every African citizen by natural means. There are three categories of persons, those who implement, those who drive and those who wait to jump onto the bus fighting ignorance. We need to think straight and that is to implement development and technology because they go hand in hand.

#Africa #democracy #leaders #revolution #development #technology

It does get any better that this – Look and Find

As the trails continue and Daniel gets in the mood of hitting the road for Bujumbura, an abrupt dream strikes him in his sleep.

In the dream, Daniel gets work to do at an Animal Sanctuary. On his first day, two young ladies his meeting for the first time see a stranger at the Sanctuary and he is introduced by a lady called Kelly. After introducing Daniel, one of the lady walks straight to Daniel and says, welcome to the world the wild. Animals are ruled on one principal, that is the principal of look and find. And immediately I woke up.

When I woke up immediately my memories of Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in Malawi strike me. This is a family, I made during my Trails to Southern, Africa. Lilongwe Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the next to the National Park of Malawi. And I made great friends and shared experiences of my Trails. Joined them for there 5th Year Anniversary. This is one of the very great experiences I had on Southern Trails.

Getting the path of knowledge and creativity, Natures true revelations are in the way plants and animals meander to survival. The prinicipal of look and find that I have discovered in this dream, gives a direction of response of achievement and success in our day to day lives. You can never find what you have not looked for. So Look and Find is the principal that governs our life.

In every profession and walks of life, everything that you do, beginning with yourself, we always look for joy, life and survival – struggles geared towards what makes us comfortable, but it can never get better than this. All we use, is our brains to look for what we need and celebrations come after we have found it.

When I am riding the Trails, all that comes to me is seeking creativity and innovation which makes me happy and here it is found in the realms of Nature. It can never better than this is in the look and find principal. Cycling is a way of life that has not been discovered by many despite the fact that people are looking for it.

You get on to look for destiny, go through weird academic systems in order to find success. Trail through different scenes which result into negativity or positivity and finally something strikes and you find what you need in the long run all that comes and you say is “I have found success” – the story goes back to the fact that you were looking for success.

The Look and find principal drives the ability for people to look beyond their imaginations and this principal is what has led them to create discoveries and inventions. They were looking for something and then they found and invention. An invention is an outcome of looking for something that creates a novelty. Creating novelties is a result of looking for something beyond the extra imagination.

This same theory of Look and find is what led Albert Einstein to discover the famous Einstein’s Equation, this is the same that was used to discover the great seas and oceans by Vasco Da Gama, it is the same principal that is used by Musians when realizing their albums. It can never get better than Look and Find.

Every other day that passes by, we are always looking for something and when we do not find what we are looking for, we can never be at Peace with ourselves. This cause the mind to go through an extra though and imagination to find what has been looked for the previous day and then a good rest strikes. You just found what you were looking for.

We all toil and snare, move miles looking for something and then rest after we have what we were looking for. This is the natural phenomenon that drives humans, it is the same that drives, animals and also plants use the same principal.

#novelty #look #find #imaginatio #invention #Trails

WhatsApp Messenger: Android + iPhone + Nokia + BlackBerry + Windows Phone

Hey, I just downloaded WhatsApp Messenger on my Android. It is a smartphone messenger which replaces SMS. This app even lets me send pictures, video and other multimedia! WhatsApp Messenger is available for Android, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Phone and BlackBerry and there is no PIN or username to remember - it works just like SMS and uses your internet data plan. Get it now from http://www.whatsapp.com/download/ and say good-bye to SMS!

Creating a Pilot Plan

During the planning phase of the deployment project, product management, program management, and release management teams collaborate to create the pilot plan. The pilot plan defines the scope and objectives of the pilot and identifies pilot participants and where the pilot will be conducted. It includes a schedule for deploying and conducting the pilot and plans for training and communicating with pilot participants, evaluating the pilot, identifying risks and contingencies, and other key activities that occur during a pilot deployment.

If you plan to conduct multiple pilots, develop a pilot plan for each. For example, if the subteam responsible for deploying a particular operating system plans to conduct its own pilot, that subteam should write a pilot plan. Even if you do not plan to conduct multiple pilots, each subteam can contribute to the overall pilot plan.

The Silent Genocide Virus

With the long leadership of H.E President YK Museveni, there continues to be a groaning anger that is in instilled in Ugandan every other day that passes by. With lots of security intervention and alertness, measures are being taken to calm down the situation but all in all the anger begins to sprout out from the citizens and people.

It all started with the Kiboga crisis where the Bafuriki (Immigrants) where claimed to be taking away the land of the Batoro. The beauty of the rose flower turns out wears out as your gentle touch approaches the stem, you will find a weird feelings of the thorns. Should I say that Uganda is now belonging to the dogs with the most recent crisis in the leadership of Kampala the capital city.

The Lord Mayor has been kicked out of his position despite many struggles from the time that he became mayor. And the appointment of Ms. Jeniffer Musisi as the Executive director, there has been advancement in the development but the powers of the Lord Mayor where cut out leaving him as a mere puppet.

There has been a slow growing river between the two giants followed by caos and critism of the voter rights amidst the leadership that is grown with tribalism the regionalism. With claims that the persons from Western Uganda have dominated the leadership and ruling of the country right from the President of the Republic of Uganda to the list depriving other Ugandans of them ability to rule.

In economics, Uganda is place where the rich get richer and richer and the poor get poorer and poorer. The saying has been altered, based on the origin that you come from – the Banyonkole get richer and richer while those from the other tribes get poorer and poorer; which means that you can only get richer when you come from the west.

There has been a resolution which has caused many to inter marry with those from the western Uganda with the need to gain wealth. This becomes an advantage to create unity among the people but the temporal unity gets destroyed by the leadership distribution. With the indigenous Ugandan resorting to living a miraculous where the motto of the country has change to – For God and my stomach; instead of For God and my Country. Ugandan have lost unity and are now getting divided by tribalism eating them up causing an grudge.

With the headlines of today news paper - Lukwago kicked out, portrays a lot with statements like THE PERSON YOU CALL PRESIDENT WILL BE KICKED OUT, causing a lot of ruckus for the political platform of 2016. And claims that the government media is trying to brainwash the citizens.

With all the bitterness that is pushed to the social media, and the anger in the people, there is a lot of signs that it potrays for the future of Ugandans, with lots of protection being given to the councilors who did the impeachment, there is still a lot that is needed to calm down the anger in the public amidst riots that are being prevented and fought by the police and security agents.

#genocide #Uganda #lukwago #mayor

Why is there so much money lost to Cybercrime?

With only 36% of small businesses applying security patches, it's no wonder so much money is lost to cybercrime. The threat landscape continually evolves to include more threats each week and attackers are always on the prowl for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit.

#cybercrime #security

What gap has to be covered by in the accessibility of Technology Devices

I was in San Francisco and was impressed when these children where playing with the Ipads

majority of organizations and individuals still have challenges in getting a computer while these children have already embraced technology and are using it.

To achieve collaborative learning abilities for Africa, I believe the best thing is to make sure that in the fight of bridging the gap, low cost ICT devices should be availed for Africa which will lead us to the next level which is applicability and use.

This is what i term as the paradox of Software Applications in Africa.For those who are building applications, what is the target market of the application, if you are targeting the Africa market, you have got to think twice on the end user, and if you are targeting the elite community, then the question will arise, what have they not experienced?

#application #software #africa #ict

Is this how technology equipment should be handled

I was walking by the post office today to check my letter box and all of a sudden, I found this.

This is a parking ticketing gadget that runs on solar that was either knocked down or vandalised next to the Uganda Telecom / Main Post Office in Kampala.

This is an green eco gadget due to the fact that it runs on solar.

It has a solar panel on its head which powers the unit through minimising costs on electricity. At the time when this picture was shot, there was no inverter and other accessories. What could have happened? I believe the next time there will be no solar panel. We have to take caution of our technology.

If technology devices are handled this way, how sure should we be to say that Africa, Uganda is ready to embrace technology?

#technology #solar #green #Uganda #electricity

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