Back in December 2011 a few leaders of the African software developers community namely Max Bonbhel and Lamine Ba presidents of JUGAfrica and SeneJUG respectively created a challenge for African developers to showcase their skills by creating Android based App. The competition is called: Africa Android Challenge. The objective behind the competition is for African developers to create local application relative to African context and content...
Besides just creating Apps, candidates also had the opportunity to provide Android courses for developers who are new to the platform and want to start developing mobile Apps on Android.
The competition has now ended and judges are filtering possible winners. 85 Apps were submitted, 60 will be selected for a second round judging (semi final) on March 30th. The list of submitted Apps can be found here APPS. The list of the prizes can be found in the awards section of the challenge site. The challenge has been sponsored by: Google, Jcertif, VMTECH and eapps.
This is the type of activities that
African developers should leverage at the maximum for several reasons. First it
will give them more visibility and presence globally and therefore
draw more job and entrepreneurship opportunities. Second the increase
development of more mobile apps relative to African content
on smartphone such as Android will eventually drive the wider
adoption of smartphones by African citizens and subsequently decrease
their prices.
All organizers and participants
deserve encouragements. Let's hope that we continue to have more and more of
these type of activities to simulate the growth of context aware smartphone
apps in Africa and at the time same sharpen the skills of mobile Apps African
developers.
Stay
tune for more information as the challenge is the near the end.
PS: AAC organizers are looking for more local judges:
"Judges for your country :
There will be 3 or
5 judges per country. All the detailed information about the process will
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1. Here is the form
you to fill in order to become a judge for your country : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZfQ0gwYVJxMmJrNHJ2c19Xd05JUUE6MQ#gid=0
2. Judges will select
winning applications according to rules specified on AAC website: http://androidchallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=5&Itemid=57
1. Here is the form you need to fill in order to become an event
organizer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJvNTBMeGU3T0lvR0R6R2p0UkRKSWc6MQ#gid=0
2. Here is a guideline
on how to organize your event for 1st round winners: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGeM3fYvC8cnolvIiJUkbvFzlEdZ4mq-TAg_Huy3aaI/edit