Kenyan partcipants at the Vodacom Appstar challenge held in Bangalore China have emerged the best among 1000, earning a place to go and showcase their innovation at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.
Coming up annully, the AppStar Challenge is an annual developer challenge that seeks to showcase and recognize the top developers from various emerging markets in an international finals.
This year’s finals were held in Bangalore India and roped in participants from Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana and India who competed in 2 categories for top awards.
The categories for the competition were Established Developers which pits companies that have been in existence for more than 3 years and Upcoming Developer which allows emerging and young developers to compete against others within the same category.
Below are the winners
Guide Rig (also a runner up in Safaricom Appwiz Challenge) scooped the top award in the Upcoming developer category with the solution that allows mapping of events as well as a rig system that provides instant feedback and information at specific areas within an event/ exhibition through interactive mapping.
My County, an application developed by Shimba Technologies scooped the runner up position and USD 5,000 in the Established developers category. The application gives power to county residents and provides extensive information on county governments including services available, reporting of incidences, rating of the counties and contact information.
This is the 3rd year Kenya has participated and won top awards in the international AppStar contest, with previous winners being automs.gs and Tough Jungle in 2013 and 2012 respectively.
The applications are available on both the Safaricom Appstore and Play Store.
