The winners of the Google Apps Developer Challenge has been announced. The announcement was made 4 days ago by Nelson Marcus, the VP for Google, Product Engineering EMEA during the g|South Africa Event in Cape Town via Google+ Hangout broadcast. These winners were selected after two rounds of scoring by the official panel of judges. This brings to a close the competition that started on the 5th of June this year.
As mentioned in a blog post written mid year heralding the competition, developers in 6 regions across the world stood to win prizes that included Chromebooks and up to $20,000 USD with other special prizes for students and female developers! All one had to do was to build and submit an amazing application in one of these categories:
- Enterprise / Small Business Solutions
- Social / Personal Productivity / Games / Fun
- Not-for-Profit: Education / Water / Food & Hunger / Health.
The winners have emerged and the winners from the Sub-Saharan region are as listed below:
Form+, Nigeria. This application brings the power of Google Drive to forms.
Open Drive, Togo. Open Drive is a collective encyclopedia project based on Google Drive public files and on the crowd sharing, crowd sourcing and crowd-solving principles
Dextop, Uganda. Dextop is a desktop-like portal to your cloud-based applications. A lightweight virtual desktop