ICTworks by Inveneo

Recently, Google hosted G-Uganda developer days in Kampala to great success. Just listen to the outcomes:

The hundreds of assembled Ugandan developers showed remarkable enthusiasm. In three hours after being challenged to write creative code in Python to run on Google App Engine, the finalists at our G-Uganda hackathon stood center stage, demonstrating their creations. Many of the ideas used not just App Engine, but also integrated with Google Maps, Translate and Calendar.

Daniel Okalang did a demo of a guest book, with authentication and a privacy filter; Samuel Mugisha created a guest book with public and private messages and Joseph Kaizzi transformed the guest book concept into a full-fledged phone book, allowing users to email or phone contacts. Marc Charles Wanume and Eric Lwanga implemented a bilingual version of the guestbook, supporting English and Swahili interfaces.

The audience selected two winners among nine finalists: an app that searches recent Twitter posts, per-user or anonymously; and a new microblog app where you can delete your posts. The winners received a new Android-powered Nexus One phone – and hopefully, the encouragement to develop many more exciting apps.

Thank you Google for recognizing that there are talented software programmers in Uganda.