The search for solutions to qualify for the Growth Academy has come to an end and six qualified solutions will be passing through 3 months mentorship to build world class solutions and businesses. Previous graduates from the Growth Academy include Waserise, Efiko app, and Tiketmobile.
The academy program is a first of its kind business accelerator programme in Africa dedicated to providing intensive continuous hands-on support to help approximately thirty (30) early stage mobile technology start-ups grow into high growth businesses and build world class mobile applications for the Nokia platform regionally and globally. It is a Nokia and Co-Creation Hub initiative.
Meet the Solutions:
- Nearest Locator is a mobile application that provides trusted and accurate location information of a desired point of interest (POI) to the end user. It also provides the contact address, location on map and the contact phone number(s).
- Bush Parrot seeks to build a community around information. Unique feature includes the ability to pull information from several sources in form of feeds. Users can then “view by source”, “view by location”, “view by category” or simply follow items consumed by their “friends”.
- SmartListing Mobile Application provides users with the ability to easily search and find property with their smartphones. The end to horrendous property search is over.
- JobsInNigeria provides a platform that allows job seekers to find suitable jobs that listed employers have put on the market. Talk about demand meeting supply right at your fingertips.
- Ipolice is a web and mobile soultion that uses crowd-sourced
information to inform users of security situations happening around Nigeria. Unique features include providing this information to security agencies closest to the users.
- GRAID is a farm-reporting mobile solution that will help farm owners and administrators monitor farm activities with a view to establishing trends and improve the record keeping processes
These six solutions, as at the time of writing this post, were scheduled to pitch their ideas at the Special Showcase today – Tuesday, November 6, 2012 by 2pm at Co-Creation hub Sabo Yaba.
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