MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

• Simeon Oriko

• 3rd Year student at University of Eastern

Africa, Baraton (UEAB)

• Microsoft Student Partner

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How do we give people access to

information and other resources that will enable them be all

they can be?

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

1 + 1 = 2Mobile Web + Cloud Computing =

Mobile Cloud Computing

imobile

web

Mobile phones are not the same as

desktop computers

The complexity of the mobile world

• Multiple Operating Systems

• Multiple browsers

• Multiple devices etc

Four major problems of the mobile web:

• Limited memory and storage

• Small display screens

• Flaky browsers

• Flaky connections

1. Limited memory and storage

• Processing power• Various data formats• Depends on the device

• Data storage• Storage is expensive• Interoperability issues

2. Small display screens

• Desktop version websites are optimized for 1024 x 768 pixels.• There’s no way that will fit on a mobile browser.

Small display screens

• Solution lies in the realms of graphic and interaction design.• Technical solutions exist using CSS and Javascript.

3. Flaky Browsers

• There are MANY mobile browsers!• They all vary in standards and modes of rendering.• Most are downloaded and tied to the devices performance.

Mobile Browsers •Top Level:• Android webkit, Safari, Opera Mobile• Mid Level:• S60 Webkit, Opera mini, Blackberry• Bottom Level:• NetFront, IE Mobile (old)• Other Browsers:• Iris, Bolt, Skyfire, Obigo, Fennec, Teashark etc

4. Flaky Connections

• Spotty outside urban areas …that’s about it!

• Technical solutions using HTML5

Solutions:

• Take data processing away from the mobile phone and into the cloud.• Create a common platform that all mobile phones (try to) share in common e.g. mobile web, sms and ussd.

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

Definition of POTENTIAL

• 1998: 3.9 BILLION Mobile Subscribers!

• 42.8 MILLION Mobile Cloud Computing

Subscribers!

• 2014: 5.2 BILLION Mobile Subscribers!!

• 998 MILLION Mobile Cloud Computing

Subscribers!!!

• The power (and beauty) of this is

the number of users this concept has

the power to reach…especially in

Africa!!!!• Take note: CONCEPT not TECHNOLOGY

Mobile Cloud Computing

• Concept

• Suitability

• Technology

• Attitude

1. Concept

Innovation

Bespoke

Products

Services

2. Suitability

• Ubiquity – Something novel to

something common.

• Certainty – Something little known to

something everybody knows and loves.

3. Technology

“We have the technology!”

4. Attitude

• Willingness to use it

• Africa needs this!

What will Mobile Cloud Computing look like?

• Smartphones will increase in percentage.

• Feature phones will become more

sophisticated.

• Lower end phones will be the driving

force.

What will Mobile Cloud Computing look like?

• Apps will be of two types:

• Native apps

• Web apps

What will Mobile Cloud Computing look like?

• Faster mobile networks.

• Improved network connectivity outside

urban areas.

KUYU…be all you can be…

Simeon Oriko

oriko.simeon@gmail.com