GDG Mombasa attending the GDG Africa's Summit 2013

+GDG Mombasa is highly honored to have it's Managers, +Said Fuad and +Alifiyah Ganijee who in turn are the GDG Champion Kenya and Lead GDG Women Mombasa, respectively to attend the GDG Africa's summit 2013 in Nairobi from 3-5th July 2013.

The two will be flying to Nairobi and will be accommodated at the Southern Sun Mayfair Hotel, the summit will be taking place at the Visa Oshwal Community Center.

GDG Africa summit 2013 is an event where all GDG Country Champions, GDG Women Leads and GDG Managers across all the countries in Africa meet under one space with the goal of knowing each other in person, listening to what other GDGs have been doing, inspiring GDGs, to incentivate inter-GDG collaboration and to get connected to mentors right from Google face-to-face.

Also, there will be several sessions, both technical and non-technical during the three day summit and we are hoping that it will be an amazing time in each and every way. We hope that every moment will be worth reliving

Together we'll represent GDG Mombasa to its fullest and make Africa the best region in the World to promote and advance new technology.

Team Africa, here we go!Let the magic begin!

Check out the event snaps here: http://goo.gl/y0t5V

GDG Managers Mombasa

GDG Devfest'13 Joint Tour Initiative Concept

GDG DevFests are community driven events that offer speaker sessions across Google products and latest features, all-day hack-a-thons, codelabs, barcamps etc.

Each GDG DevFest will be inspired by and uniquely tailored to the needs of the developer community that hosts it. But while no two events will be exactly alike, each GDG DevFest will, at its core, be powered by a shared belief that when developers come together to exchange ideas, amazing things can happen.

Here at GDG Mombasa, we are planning to organize a GDG DevFest'13 Mombasa event which will engage lots of developers in the communities, not only in Kenya but also outside the country. Plans are underway, please check back for more details :-) 

Africa Android Challenge 2013

Africa Android Challenge is a multi-country challenge which provides awards for great Android apps created by Africans. It is designed to motivate and encourage African developers to create innovative applications driven by and for local content a great opportunity to discover the best developers and Android experts on the African continent a collaboration opportunity between IT communities such as Java User Groups and Google Developer Groups across many African countries.

This whole effort is community driven and is a way to assure the long-term success of African developers invested in the Android application environment. The competition is a two round process - semi-finals and finals in two sections (Android apps and Google Apps for Android. This year’s AAC was announced on Feb 15, 2013 and its first round will be due by April 25, 2013 so for the rest of the Android geeks and passionate developers on the continent with apps to submit should do so as soon as possible. The detailed agenda of this year’s AAC is here.

In the previous years, i was looking forward to submit entries as it really inspired me as a mobile applications developer. In this year, i was able to submit my entry named as KenCab. 

More details and prototype on the app soon.

Importance of IT

Information Technology or IT mainly deals with computer applications. The common work environment today is totally dependent on computers. This has led to the need to develop and consistently upgrade dedicated computer software like project management software, for a number of related requirements. These include storage and protection of content, processing and transmitting of dedicated information and the secured retrieval of information, when and as required. IT promotes computing technology, covering everything from installing applications to developing databases. 

Why is Information Technology Important 

All our work related applications are now completely automated, thanks to the IT sector. IT professionals are people involved in essential management of sensitive data, exclusive computer networking and systems-engineering. The advancement of the IT sector has resulted in automated:

• Administration of entire systems.
• Production and manipulation of sensitive information.
• Cultural development and communication.
• Streamlining of business processes and timely upgrades.

Advantages of IT 

• Globalization
True globalization has come about only via this automated system. The creation of one interdependent system helps us to share information and end linguistic barriers across the continents. The collapse of geographic boundaries has made the world a 'global village'. The technology has not only made communication cheaper, but also possible much quicker and round the clock. The wonders of text messages, email and auto-response, backed by computer security applications, have opened up scope for direct communication. 

Eating healthy

Our food choices each day affect your health — how you feel today, tomorrow, and in the future.

Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer), and promote your overall health.

THE IMPACT OF NUTRITION ON YOUR HEALTH

Unhealthy eating habits have contributed to the obesity epidemic in the United States: about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese.¹  Even for people at a healthy weight, a poor diet is associated with major health risks that can cause illness and even death. 

Advantages of martial arts

Martial arts training at peak performance levels is the best way to prevent disease, as well as to stimulate positive changes in the body's natural healing systems.Our current lifestyle of Lazy-boy chairs, remote controls and S.U.V.s does not challenge us to move,  yet our biological need for physical movement is still the same as when time began. Martial arts training can strongly influence the function of most of the human organ systems and much of the chemistry of our brains and bodies. The changes brought about by martial arts training are dose responsive, but maybe not in the way you believe. In fact, twice as much is twice as good only up to optimal levels. Beyond that actually tempts an over training response in the body and a decline in physical and mental health. Martial arts training, as well as other exercise forms, dosage combines distance (or time), intensity and frequency -- how far, how fast, how often. An additional factor may be technique, which determines the muscle groups and total muscle mass used in the exercise.