Airtel Nigeria has rewarded
some young Nigerians who excelled in the just-concluded Airtel/Google cloud
applications development challenge.
While announcing the winners in Lagos, The Director of
Products and Services, Maurice Newa, said Airtel is committed to discovering
talent hence its decision to partner Google in the app challenge.
He said: “The Google cloud development challenge was an
initiative Airtel Nigeria identified as very impactful thus threw its full
weight behind it because of our commitment to creating credible platforms for
the development of local talents and also providing Nigerian youths with
plethora of opportunities to succeed.”
Jambite online prep school app fetched the duo of Aneke
Chidindum and Nosa Harry Belvi the third position while Mapplusyou app secured
Adewale Obadimo and Ayodele Adebayo the second place slot. The star prize of N1 million went to Femi Taiwo and Tunde
Owokoniran with Funnyleni app.
The challenge, according to the organisers, was aimed at
testing the knowledge of Nigerians and indeed Africans on how well they know
the web, in various categories such as social & entertainment; education,
business & non-profit.
Programme Manager Outreach, Sub-Saharan Africa, Google,
Chukwuemeka Afigbo averred that “one thing Google hold dear is the importance
of the web and the importance of the Internet is the relevance of the web.”
Afigbo observed that the importance of the app challenge was
to encourage young Nigerians to get creative with the web and to encourage best
practices amongst best app users.
He noted that the winning apps were based on relevance to
the Nigerian environment, originality and the responsiveness of the app to different
screen-size phone, tablet or regular screen.
Aneke Chidindum, developer of the Jambsite online prep
school app, explained that the idea behind the app is to create an avenue where
web users can learn various subjects and assess one’s self instead of the usual
social media which gets heavy visitors on a daily basis.
The second and third place winners were rewarded with N500, 000 and N250, 000 respectively.
By Adeniyi Idowu Adunola
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