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Please review attached JD and if qualified please send application to ken@emobilis.org.

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Nancy Wanjira
Senior Office Manager

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Press Release:

infoDev is proud to announce the successful bidders to host the African Regional Mobile Application Laboratory. The East African lab will be run by a consortium of 4 - iHub, eMobilis, University of Nairobi, and Web Foundation.

Dr Tim Kelly, lead ICT specialist at the World Bank's infoDev global grant unit announced today in Nairobi, Kenya. He was speaking at the Aitec Conference at KICC. He says that the bank is committed to developing technology entrepreneurship in all fields, especially in mobile applications development, where the barriers to entry are relatively low.

The purpose of the lab is to increase the competitiveness of innovative enterprises in the mobile content and applications area, in East Africa, and to ensure that locally relevant applications are created to meet growing developing country user demands.

There will be one lab each in East and Southern Africa where local companies, technologists and experts can collaborate to develop locally relevant applications that meet user demands and build sustainable businesses.

The services to be offered by the lab will include:

1. Training and accreditation for mobile applications developers.

2. Certification of applications and facilities for developers to test applications under operational conditions.

3. Fostering competition for ideas among applications developers.

4. Business mentoring to assist applications developers with bringing their ideas to market. In this sense, the Labs could serve as specialized business incubators.

5. Replication of successful applications, between countries, languages and operating systems.

6. Developing a repository of knowledge in ICT4D.

7. Conducting consumer behaviour research.

8. Facilitating access to finance and access to markets.

eMobilis will begin recruiting top local talent in the next few weeks to start to undertake training programs within the lab.

About Infodev

InfoDev, is a donor-funded ICT for development agency hosted by the World Bank, and has formed a public/private partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Finland and Nokia to undertake a joint program on Creating Sustainable Businesses for the Knowledge Economy, worth some €12 million, that will run from 2010 – 2012.

About eMobilis

eMobilis Mobile Technology Academy is a training institution that was founded in 2008 and is the first of its kind in Sub Saharan Africa - it focuses on training individuals on mobile software development, as well as network infrastructure management. eMobilis has created a center that bridges the existing knowledge gap and provides opportunities for local talent to create locally relevant applications and services that run on mobile phones.