Nokia announces winners
Nokia yesterday announced the overall winner of its ‘Calling All Innovators’ contest. 20FourLabs, developers of winning application Afridoctor, received R600,000 following the announcement.
All category winners were recognised at the ‘Calling All Innovators’ Awards reception and the total cash and prize value of over R1-million was awarded to the top ten application developers. In addition, winning application, Afridoctor, is already
available on Nokia’s Ovi Store and the response has been very positive so far.
Over 125 submissions were received during the competition period, mainly from Africa. Although the competition called for applications relevant to the South African environment a large number of entries were received from developers in other countries including Pakistan, Germany, US, India and Bahrain. The second highest number of entries overall, after those received from South African developers, came from Kenya, showing that Africa is definitely on the map and has a role to play in developing new applications.
“We received a number of top quality entries and the winners have invested a significant amount of time and thought into their applications,” says Helen Jarvis, services marketing manager at Nokia South Africa. “We look forward to working with the South African and African developer community going forward to continue providing the best mobile applications to consumers on the continent and worldwide.”
Over and above the prize money, the owners of the top 10 submissions each received the Judge’s Choice Award, which provides a one-year membership to Forum Nokia Launchpad, valued at 300 Euros.
“The developers are the future of technology advancement and Nokia understands this,” says Jarvis. “It is for this reason that we recently hosted the Nokia Developer Days where over 62 companies were represented by 100 delegates, from eight African countries, US, United Arab Emirates and Finland to talk about the future of mobile technology.”
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