Unilag Students Dazzle Africa Win Google Business Competition
Three Students of the University of Lagos Willie Aniebet, Bolutife Ogunsola,and Michael Adeyeri have put their names in gold, making their University proud as they emerged winners of the Google Apps Developer Challenge for the Enterprise/Small Business Solutions category in sub-Saharan Africa.
In a sheer feat of determination, courage and creativity the trio developed the Form + application software; an interface that creates application forms by just dragging and dropping components.
The new Apps will help to develop content and ease the process for creating curriculum vitae(CV) or resume submissions forms for businesses and coursework submission page for lecturers.
They were awarded $20,000 and Chrome books, while they won for their Department a grant of $18,000 from the great American technology search engine Company .
With this innovation the Young lads have once again proven that innovation the driving engine of businesses and economy does not reside only in Germany, South Korea, Japan, India and the United States of America but also Nigeria.
It will be recalled earlier this month that three girls stunned the world at a technology fair in Lagos, when they showcased a generator they made that operates with urine.
Mr Emeka Afigbo the Program Manager for Google stated “Our expectation is that this motivates more young Nigerian developers to develop apps that change the way we live in Nigeria and Africa at large.”
It is believed that this developments will stir up the youth to engage their minds positively to bring ideas that can solve the challenges of Nigeria, rather than indulge in violent and illicit acts.
Deyo
November 27, 2012 at 5:35 pm
I’m excited about this news. Keep it up guys…