TechLaunchPad, a technology innovation program initiated by the Federal Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Nigeria in collaboration with private sector has kicked off its 2nd edition. The program started in 2012 to assist Nigerian tech start-ups with viable tools and solutions to nurse and grow their fledging idea and business into worthwhile commercial scale Essentially, the objects of the initiative is to give screened and selected tech start-ups technical skills, business skills, management skills, and provide support and mentorship as well as access to fund and market. These objects will be facilitated by IT experts and executives in the private sector who will mentor the techpreneurs and provide needed inputs to their software development in order to ensure that their service and solutions have socio-economic relevance to the local ecosystem, market band industry.
To be eligible to enter for this edition, the tech service must be innovative, written in English, and not yet in the market. Also the tech entries must come in the following field:
(1) Agriculture & logistic– agric-business marketing, agric-productivity, logistic, inventory control, transport control and operation.
(2)Building & Construction: Construction project model, design & quality control, project and material planning, forecasting & costing.
(3) Telecoms: Mobile app, analytic, Social Media, real-time monitoring, base station monitoring
(4)Health: Mobile platform for improving primary health care delivery system and learning in rural communities, health data management for forecasting disease outbreak; generate services that will enhance the utilization of Primary Health Center services, crowd-sourcing for health data, supply chain management for drugs & vaccine.
That is, the software expected in this edition must seek to provide service, improvement and meet a need in any of the listed category. The deadline for application is 5th July, 2014. And interested tech start-ups who are burning to apply technology to solve a problem, meet a need, contribute to our local content on the web, and take their idea and business to the next level should apply @ http://techlaunchpad.com.ng
Good luck to our budding geeks!
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