The Challenge: To create innovative web/mobile apps and games to deliver financial literacy in Nigeria. N2 960 000 will be won by the top 3 teams
The #FinancialLiteracy Challenge will bring key finance actors (CBN, banks, credit bureaus, personal finance experts, NGOs, micro-finance institutions etc) together with software developers and designers to create interesting apps and games that help inform Nigerians on how to manage their money and educate on the tools available to meet their money needs.
The apps and games will target:
- Children, youth and undergraduates
- Educated Nigerians outside the school system
- The uneducated/illiterate population
and will be accessible through mobile devices (basic phones, smart phones and tablets) as well as on popular social media platforms.
- First Prize: N1,200,000
- Second Prize: N960,000
- Third Prize: N800,000
The teams will have 1 month to finalise the solution in time for launch.
The judges will assess the prototypes based on:
- The relevance of the solution
- Accessibility for the target audience
- Quality of the prototype developed
- Potential reach of the solutions developed
