Allow me to NOT answer your question.

The way I see it, you probably have 3 objectives:
1. Score an A in your project
2. Win some award in some competition
3. Get offered a job soon after graduating

Working backwards, the goal will determine the "type" of project you might want to consider doing.

3. Get offered a job
Do a project that solves a REAL problem in the REAL world. Do not sit at your computer and imagine what problems exist out there, instead, read the newspapers, watch news on tv and find a real problem that afflicts someone or some organization, then do a project around that.

2. Win some award
Go ahead and go a gisty sounding project using some buzzword technology stack, you can use the open data if you so wish. Google organizes lots of competions; summer of code, code jam etc and so does microsoft, e.g. imagine cup. Samsung and et al also organize competitions based on their mobile platforms.

1. Get an A in your project
Come to think of it, point number 2 above will most likely win you an better grade than point number 3. But remember, most likely if you go looking for a job from Rad! et al, most of them will care less if you got a A in your 4 year project.

Finally, last time I checked, it was not possible to buy stuff off Nakumatt's website and pay with mpesa and get them delivered to your preferred location, for a multi billion company, that a glaring oppportunity :-)

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Leonard Kore <leonardkore@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys,
I am a student collecting ideas for my fourth year project.Which apps do you think I can create using the information on open data.

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