Yesterday saw a pool of budding developers from the tech community in Ghana, meet-up and pitch their apps/development to a jury at the AppCircus – Mobile Apps Ghana Showcase.
Saya Mobile – a mobile group chat app still in stealth mode won the top honors. For their prize, the budding developer received an iPad 2 and a cash prize of GHc 2000.00 cedis (USD1400.00).
Infoline Business Directory – a mobile business directory by NandiMobile won the second prize of a notebook and a GHc 1000.00 cash prize. With over 18,000 listings, NandiMobile seeks to make the Infoline business directory the first option for mobile users in Ghana.
SMSTweetbox – was awarded the third prize of a notebook and a GHc 1000.00 cash prize. Their app is a simple SMS to twitter gateway suitable for content aggregation at Barcamps and other social innovation events is an app that allows mobile users to tweet via SMS developed Kwamena Appiah-Kubi.
As part of their prizes, all winners will pitch to a jury at the prestigious Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain (all expenses paid trip).
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- Anne Amuzu, Co-Founder Nandimobile, on the Startup Scene in Ghana (thenextwomen.com)
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Glad to see a Ghanaian developer coming up with an app that will give BBM & WhatsApp a run for their money. Great job, folks. Kudos to the guys at @MESTghana.
Definitely, Saya Mobile will definitely give these apps a run for their money. Looking forward to testing their beta version when it comes out.
Waiting patiently for saya to take off, i will embrace it 100% no matter what. They should not limit it like the others do. It is not everyone who can afford the black berry, apple and the androids. Just come down to our level and we will make it happen in ghana. MORE VIM.
Jordan, can we know about those bringing the saya app ?
Saya Mobile Developers are from Entrepreneurial students from MEST-Ghana.
Hello Everyone, I’m Robert one of the developers of Saya. We have actually graduated form the MEST and gotten incorporated, hence we are an entity on our own. Please do visit the website http://www.saya.im and drop in your number so we could add you to our alpha and beta testing list. Thanks
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