Nigeria: 2015 Technovation Challenge – Nigeria Beats USA, India, Mexico, Others

Lagos — Nigeria has emerged winner in Technovation Challenge world pitch, which held at San Francisco, USA. The team, i-kapture emerged winners in a competition that comprised six finalists from six countries. They are USA, India, Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia. 64 countries entered for the competition.

The winning team comprising four brilliant girls: Praise David-Oku, Sonam Kumar, Nmesoma Ogbonna, and Grace Akpoiroro developed a mobile app to tackle waste disposal challenge in Nigeria. The App pitched is called, ‘Discardious’.