Pivot East 2012 final competition

Pivot East, previously known as the Pivot 25 is a regional mobile apps/ developers competition. The pitching conference will take place from tomorrow, 5^th June to 6^th at the Ole Sereni Hotel, Nairobi.

The competition has five categories; Business and Resource Management, Financial services, Entertainment, Mobile Society and Utilities.

This year’s theme being ‘Innovation and Enterprise’ the event will address financial challenges in technology advancement, social enterprise, entrepreneurship and the role of innovation in stimulating the regional economy.

The overall winner will receive a fully paid five-day trip to showcase at GITEX Technology Week in Dubai. While each winner in the five categories will get $10,000 in prize money.

Last year’s competition received more than 100 applications for the 25 slots available.

The 2012 finalists include:

Financial Services category

MobiKash (Kenya), mcollector (Kenya), Pay4Us (Kenya), SchoolBursar (Kenya), Chamapro (Kenya)

Business and Resource Management category

Get-it! App (Rwanda), Dairy Sacco App (Kenya), SMS Offline and Online virtual Market place (Kenya), Easy Order (Rwanda), SMS Based Health Insurance Members Verification (Tanzania)

Entertainment category

TUBET (Kenya), Ma3racer (Kenya), Mingle (Kenya), Angry Kenyans (Kenya), Tough Jungle (Kenya)

Mobile Society category

MPrep (Kenya), eLimu (Kenya), StorySpaces (Uganda), mpoultry (Uganda), Sarura (Rwanda)

Utilities category

 Crowdpesa (Kenya), Mafuta Go (Uganda), 6ix degrees (Kenya), mTracker (Kenya), m-verified (Kenya)