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I'm currently developing a mobile phone programming curriculum at the University of Nairobi, while simultaneously pursuing my ever growing list of research areas as a Research Scientist at MIT.

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Nathan Eagle's Forum Nokia Blog

Category: Developing World

Great Articles in the Economist on Mobile Phones in the Developing World.

... complete with quotes from Nokia's own Jussi Impio! The landscape oftelecoms ...

EPROM featured on the CBC

I was recently interviewed about my work in Africa for the CBC radio program Spark . Here is a link to the interview and a description of the show: On this week's show, Nora chats with Nathan Eagle about designing mobile phone applications in Africa. Nathan is an...

EPROM: A Forum Nokia PRO Success Story

EPROM has recently been featured as a Forum Nokia PRO success story . Here is the article and also a link to the YouTube interview .

EPROM Mobile web Courses expand in Kenya

The University of Nairobi put their new application development laboratory to good use this August. Daniel Nyoka Mainye, a 2nd year computer science student and accomplished mobile phone programmer, led a group of his peers through the Nokia-driven short course Mobile Internet...

Mobile Phone Programming Courses begin in Ghana

Prof. Nathan Amanquah , Chair of the Computer Science Department at Ashesi University , ran his first EPROM mobile phone programming course as a for-credit elective this summer, with 12 hours of lecture each week for 6 weeks - equivalent to the number of hours in a regular...

HIV/AIDS Educational program piloted in Eastern Kenya

Dr. Eduard Sanders has been developing educational programs about HIV/AIDS for sex workers in Kenya for over a decade. In our pilot study, participants in his program will be given EPROM N70 handsets with University of Helsinki's ContextPhone software to augment the...

Mobile World Celebrates Four Billion Connections!

This is a big day for mobile phones everywhere: The GSMA today announced that the mobile world has celebrated its four billionth connection, according to Wireless Intelligence, the GSMA’s market intelligence unit. This milestone underscores the continued strong growth of...

“Mobile Computing & Communications” Launches at Makerere University in Uganda

Prof. Fisseha Mekuria is incorporating the EPROM curriculum into a new master’s degree program at Uganda's largest university. The objective of the new program is to carry out relevant research in the areas of mobile computing, communications...

University of Nairobi mobile phone services for the visually impaired

The School of Computing and Informatics (SCI) at the University of Nairobi has recently started a collaboration with the Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) in an effort to develop innovative mobile phone services for local visually impaired people (VIP). In this project, EPROM faculty...

SMS Media “POWER CARD” - prepaid electricity Scratch-cards in Rwanda

After Jeff Gasana graduated from the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), he help form SMS Media Rwanda , EPROM ’s latest industry partner. Some of Jeff’s most commercially successful SMS applications have been unique to the Rwandan...

EPROM Update: 10 Countries and Counting...

I'm going to start periodically posting updates from our EPROM initiative at MIT. What has driven this initiative is the fact that today’s mobile phones are designed to meet Western needs. Subscribers in developing countries, however, now represent the majority of 2.4 billion...

The Mobile Web is NOT helping the Developing World... and what we can do about it.

I attend an increasing number of keynotes where CEOs and EVPs of both major mobile handset manufacturers and mobile operators trumpet their role in bringing the internet to the bottom of the pyramid in the developing world. It's a total fallacy. The phones that are designed and marketed...