Accra, Ghana//-Academy app developers today beat off stiff competition from four other contestants to win the ultimate prize of the maiden MTN Ayoba Hackathon 2021.
The Academy app team, an online learning platform developers led by Prince Owusu took home an amount of GH¢20,000.00 to support their project, while first runner-up team Ameylia app, an online food join app developers received GH¢10,000. The app is developed by Edward Morgan, and Pierre Barrad Amoyaw.
Team Stride Delivery app, an online delivery platform that connects people who want to do delivery with dispatcher riders within Accra emerged the second runner up and took home GH¢8,000 as the prize. This app is developed by Emmanuel Fache, Eyram Amedzor, Amanda Dzegblor, and Vanessa Leonie-Mensah,
Also certificates and souvenirs were presented to the five contestants. All other apps in the competition would be given the opportunity to leverage on the Ayoba Super platform to promote their apps, according to officials of MTN Ghana.
Congratulations
Dario Bianchi, the Chief Digital Officer of MTN Ghana congratulated all the contestants for their wonderful apps. He particularly lauded the developers of the ultimate prize winning app for their effort.
The competition launched by MTN Ghana has given local app developers, start-ups and businesses the opportunity to develop micro-apps fit for the Ayoba Super App.
The Hackathon gives participants the opportunity to benefit from the digitization agenda being pursued by MTN.
Additionally, the young Ghanaian app developers during the competition presented key solutions in FinTech, HealthTech, FoodTech, EducationTech, DeliveryTech and various other sectors to the delight of the judges.
Top apps
Health Management App where patients can easily talk to their doctors via a platform that has the patients’ health history is one of the outstanding apps.
Another app that was looked to solve the problem of getting information from all schools in Ghana was also demonstrated during the competition.
As at 10th September this year, 26 participants out of 171 enrolled applicants presented their apps to the panel judge during a virtual event.
Various activities
Various activities including a special two day webinar has been organized for successful applicants. Selected participants are currently going through guidance and mentorship sessions with their coaches who are providing tech, UI/UX, and business support.
After the mentorship session, participants submitted their apps for review by the technical coaches and the 26 successful participants were shortlisted and submitted to a panel of judges.
The top five apps namely-Stride Delivery, Request, Ameylia, UnloQR and Academy presented their solutions to the panel of judges where the Academy App developers emerged as ultimate winner.
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