This report outlines the events that occured during the first half of the year 2013 (January 2013 - June 2013 ) at Mobile Monday Nigeria ( Our events bring the technology ecosystem in Nigeria together) Email us at info@momonigeria.org or visit our website http://www.momonigeria.org

1. The first Half of 2013 was an eventful one
with 4 monthly Events organized and two
quarterly events. We covered different
topics which include “Big Data” and
“Problems faced by e-commerce companies
in Nigeria”. The speakers were respected
people within the Nigeria’s technology
Ecosystem. We had also the first MoMo
hackathon (sponsored by VConnect) and
another event on “Augmented Reality
application development” sponsored by
Qualcomm.
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Events
January 2013
The first event of the year focused on the Technology Outlook for Nigeria in 2013
and it took place on the 28th
of January, 2013 at Bogobiri House, Ikoyi. Ope
Adeoye (Interswitch), Shina Badaru (Technology Times Nigeria), Yomi Adegboye
(Mobility Blog), Ade Atobatele (Nigeria.com) and Nubi Kayode (OTEKBITS) were
the speakers at the event. The attendance was about 60 people. The key points
discussed were:
• Increasing trend of Smartphone adoption in Nigeria,
• Impact and relevance of Social Media to the success of a startup,
• funding as it affects Nigerian startups and
• how public policy affects the technology sector in Nigeria as a whole.

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According to Nubi Kayode, social media is starting to be a key factor in
determining how successful a startup will be due to the fact that social media is
proving to be a way of spreading the word about a product / services over the
internet. He mentioned that due to the rise in traditional advertising costs in
Nigeria, more organizations such as GTBank, Pepsi and others are beginning to
turn towards focusing a large part of their advertising effort on the social media.
Also he shared how new startups are able to educate their users using this tool
and at the same time solve problems for their customers using tools such as
Twitter and Facebook. Ope Adeoye then shared on how the electronic payments
industry in Nigeria has evolved over the years and how Interswitch has been
trying to change the way Nigerians think about / embrace e-commerce by
providing mechanisms to safeguard online financial transactions.
Yomi Adegboye spoke about how smartphones are starting to drop in price as a
result of manufacturers streamlining their processes. He also talked about how
smartphone chipset manufacturers like Qualcomm and Samsung have been able
to develop manufacturing methods that drastically reduce the cost and time
required to bring new products to market. The last two speakers - Shina Badaru
and Ade Atobatele - discussed how policy affects the technology industry in
Nigeria and influx of foreign funded startups is impacting the local startup
ecosystem in Nigeria.
The Event ended with a networking session at about 8:45pm

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February 2013
The event focused on “Overcoming the Problems of E-Commerce Business in
Nigeria” and it took place on 25th
February 2013 at Bogobiri House Ikoyi. We had
80 people in attendance and two speakers - Dika Oha (EOS Limited) and Lukas
Zels (Kaymu). The different problems relating to setting up an e-commerce
business in Nigeria were discussed especially issues of payment, logistics and
accounting. Also, the methods that can be employed by a customer centric e-
commerce business to improve revenue (free shipping, low prices etc.) were also
discussed. Both speakers shared their experience in setting up their e-commerce
business in Nigeria.
March 2013
The March event was an opportunity for the MoMo Nigeria team to share the
vision of the organization with the participants. The event took place on 25th
March 2013 at Bogobiri House, Ikoyi. Members of the team (comprising Tomi
Davies, Lanre Folarin, Mayowa Owolabi, Akinbobola Akinola and Oladipo
Olasemo) were in attendance and spoke about what MoMo is trying to do, the
reason for monthly Mobile Monday meet-ups, the history of Mobile Monday
Nigeria & Mobile Monday as a whole and benefits of Mobile Monday Nigeria to
its members.

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April 2013
This was one of the two major events in 1st
half and it was sponsored by
Qualcomm. The April event held at the Avenue Suites on 29th
April 2013, and
started at 6:30pm. About 130 Attendees were present at the event. All attendees
were checked in and the event started with a presentation by Alex Dadson of
Qualcomm on how the company is adding to the mobile ecosystem through its
unique value creation process. Afterwards, Tomi Davies of Mobile Monday
Nigeria and TechnoVision Communications spoke about the history of Mobile
Monday and how it started in Nigeria. He then spoke about the benefits of
membership and then announced that all the attendees have one year free
membership which they could then renew afterwards. A representative from

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Spinlet also spoke about how the company is shaping the music industry in
Nigeria. The event ended at about 9:00pm.
25 developers from the attendees were selected to attend the Mobile Web West
Africa (MWWA) 2013 event and also the app developer day which took place
after the final day of MWWA 2013. The developers were trained on how to
develop augmented reality applications using the Qualcomm Vuforia™ Platform.
At the end of the training, most of the developers were able to create basic
augmented reality applications which could interact with images that were
preselected by the trainers.
May 2013
The May 2013 Mobile Monday Nigeria event focused on Big Data and its benefits
to Nigerian Businesses. The speakers were Chuka Ofili from OpenApps, Toba
Obaniyi from Whogohost and Laolu Alabi from 47th
Avenue. During his session,
Chuka explained that OpenApps is an analytics tool which is aiming to help
developers and business owners understand what platforms are being used the
most in Nigeria. This will help many people to be able to target the right platforms
when making their business decision for their products and / or services.
Toba Obaniyi spoke about Whogohost, the products & services being offered by
them and provided a discount code for people who were at the event which gave
them 50% off their domain name purchases on Whogohost. Laolu Alabi was the
last speaker and he spoke about 47th
Avenue which is a mobile online store which
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remarks from Tomi Davies and Lanre Folarin speaking about Mobile Monday
Nigeria Membership.
June 2013
We had the first Mobile Monday Nigeria Hackathon in Nigeria and it was
sponsored by the first VConnect. This was the first hackathon to be held on a
Monday and also the first single day hackathon in Nigeria. It focused on the
design of a Cinema Listing Web Application for VConnect which would help
people to find their favorite movies at Cinemas near them. The participants were

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required to use ASP .NET or PHP as the programming platform and Microsoft SQL
as the database component of the application.
A total of 9 teams were formed at the venue to compete in the hackathon and
each team spent 7 hours (10:00am to 5:00pm) developing their solutions. The
name for each team was culled from the top 10 Movies of the year 2010 which
coincidentally was the same year that VConnect was founded. Three winning
teams were selected and an additional team was selected for having the best
User Interface “functionality score”. Interviews were also conducted with the
winning teams, judges and members of the Mobile Monday Nigeria team. The
winners are expected to work with the VConnect product team to complete their
applications over a 30 day period.
Mobile Monday Nigeria Membership
Mobile Monday Nigeria membership has three tiers:
1. Associate,
2. Professional and
3. Corporate.
Each tier has its benefits as explained below.
Associate: This is for students who want to be able to tap into the numerous
opportunities within the ecosystem which includes access to our major events
that take place during the year, access to training from our partners and holiday

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job opportunities / internship opportunities at companies within the technology
space in Nigeria
Professional: This is for working professionals and entrepreneurs. It provides the
opportunity to interact with our partners, access to job opportunities, access to
our events / discounts to other events within the ecosystem.
Corporate: This is corporate entities. This allows organization to register multiple
members at once at reduced price thereby giving them cost savings. The staff of
the organization benefit from the Mobile Monday Nigeria community. The
organization also has advert slots in any of our events and / or in our newsletter.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the first half of the year has been a great and exciting time for
Mobile Monday Nigeria. We are constantly working on our vision of providing a
place where industry professionals, students, executives, developers and
investors in the mobile technology space can all meet and get insights on trends,
best practices and also experience new technologies while at the same time
network and exchange new ideas within themselves. We will strive to continue in
developing the Nigerian mobile ecosystem with our partners.
Special Thanks
We will like to thank all our members who have been in our events this year and
especially for the levels of engagement they created through the questions that

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were asked after each speaker’s session. We also thank the Lagos State
Innovation Council for their continued support and giving us access to use the
Lagos State E-Learning Centre for our monthly events. We will also like to thank
our two sponsors in 1st
Half - Qualcomm Technologies Incorporated (QTI) for
showing their interest in building mobile software development capacity in
Nigeria and VConnect Global Services Limited for giving their support to the first
Mobile Monday Nigeria Hackathon. For being our most consistent media partner,
we will like to thank OTEKBITS team for all the online media coverage they have
given us.