L-R: Femi Adeniran, Head Public Relations, Airtel Nigeria; Nitin Anand,
Director, Products Services, Airtel Nigeria; Femi Taiwo and Tunde
Owokoniran, winners of the 2013 Google Cloud Developers Challenge in Sub
Sahara Africa and Chukwuemeka Afigbo, Google Program Manager, Outreach
Sub Sahara Africa at the event to reward best Nigerians in the 2013
Google Cloud Developers Challenge in Lagos.
The leading telecommunication giant, Airtel Nigeria on
Thursday rewarded Nigerians who were successful in the 2013 Google Cloud
Developers Challenge with cash prizes.
‘Funnyleni’,
jointly designed by Femi Taiwo and Tunde Owokoniran emerged overall
best in Sub-Saharan Africa and received 1 Million naira cash prize;
‘Mapplusyou’ by Adewale Obadimu and Ayodele Adebayo received N 500,000
as second in Nigeria while Aneke Chimdindu and Nosakhare Belvi with
their ‘Jambites Online Prep School’ came third among all applicants in
Nigeria with N250,000 cash prize, all from Airtel.
Speaking
at the event in Lagos, the Chief Commercial Officer, Airtel Nigeria,
Mr.Maurice Newa, said Airtel was pleased to support the initiative as a
company passionate about talent.
Newa
who was represented by the Senior Manager, New Product Development,
Airtel Nigeria, Idemudia Dima-Okojie said the event was very important
because Airtel was redeeming its promises to the winners.
According
to him, "the Google Cloud Developer Challenge was an initiative Airtel
Nigeria identified as very impactful and thus threw its full weight
behind 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".
He however congratulated them “for putting Nigeria in the global map”.
According
to him, the competition which began in October 2013 focused on emerging
market adding that the challenge was in two categories: Enterprise/Small
Business Solutions, Education and Social / Personal Productivity/Games /
Fun.
Speaking
on behalf of Google, the Program Manager, Outreach Sub Sahara Africa,
Chukwuemeka Afigbo analyzed the criteria for selection, stressing the
important of local content and its relevance to the immediate society as
a very important criteria in the competition.
He
challenged the developers not to see this as the end but the beginning in the fulfillment of their God given potentials.
In his reaction, Femi Taiwo one of the winners of the first prize appreciated Airtel for supporting their innovation.
Funnyleni
according to him, aggregates hilarious local videos watched by you and
your friends off YouTube and connects with your Google , Facebook and
Twitter account to discover videos watched by your friends.
Mapplusyou, according to Obadimu is a map that provides you information about things happening around you.
The
third app, Jambites online prep school according to Chimdindu was
developed to encourage reading culture among students preparing for
Jamb.
He
said Students with the application could find answers to various
challenging questions rather than wasting their time chatting online.
The
first round winners were trained by Google on how to develop a world
class application and were given the opportunity to improve their work
and submit, out of which these winners emerged.
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