9 Projects launched on Garage48 Lagos 2011

May 06, 2011
Garage48 is an event to turn your ideas into working prototypes or services within one weekend, just 48 hours. Another great Garage48 sleepless weekend took place in Lagos, Nigearia. 9 enthusiastic teams started working on Friday evening and launched their new services on Sunday demo night on 8th of May at the Lagos Resource Centre, Victoria Island.

WINNERS AND SPECIAL MENTIONS

Overall WINNER & Winner of public vote: CallCamp (Customer Service Aggregation Agency) - customer service is terrible in Nigeria. A service for companies to employ students to be used as call center agents. People can sign up as potential call center workers have a training (learning about the company and the product) - makes the call service available for smaller businesses. Team: Temitayo Giwa, Ibrahim Lawal, Bankole Oluwole, Adedeji Adetunji, Awelenje Wale, Aguda Olabode, Damilare Onajole


Runner-up for best execution:
 Extramil.es - making the "heling of other individuals" more effective. Extramiles will help you to sign up as an volunteer and donate your time for volunteer work. Referral based system. Monetized through enterprize service - corporates have to pay, advertisement and donations. Team: David Agogo, Peter Ukonu, Femi Según ,Obinna Ukpabi, Udom Etufok


Runner-up for mobile app: 

MyCash - For people who track their expenses: people who need to budget (eg. students) can track and share their expenses. Through sharing others can also find good deals on the products and services or just the fact that the purchase was made. A mobile app. 

Team members: Odeyemi Kayoed, Ogundana Stanley, Ajibola Aiyedogbon, Baruwa Lekan, Tunji Jabitta, Stephen Ohakanu


Runner-up for best local content:
 Cook 'N Chop (initially Nigerian Food Recipe Web and Mobile Solution) - web and mobile app with recepies and guidelines (even videos) to make Nigerian food. Team members: Ihesie Peter, Abisagbo Segun, Kazeem Akinbola, Yusuf Bodija, Etimbuk Bassey, Francis Onwumere, Samuel Enyinaya, Johnson Sope, Oyewo Mukhtar.


OTHER Great PROJECTS

Parkbench - Meet people to share the interests. See who's near you and what are their interests. Helps real-life introductions. Combines location, people, and interests in mobile and web. Team members: Dapo Olaopa, Joseph Iruafemi, Emmanuel Okiche, Stephen David, Tunde Olabinjo,Olapo Oladapo


Lecture Wall - an educational networking site and on-line educational community. Lecturers and students can meet. Lecturers can sell their lecture materials, students can get the materials and teachings. Team members: David Ogunshola, Udoba Maxwell, Chuks Nwaneri, Ijawere Oluwatomiwa, Francisca Chiedu, Lawal Saeed, Joseph Jones.


City Explorer - Applications helping to explore your city and promotes local businesses. Improve the search results for the off-line businesses. On mobile and web. Helps to search for your places of interests. Team members: William Ukoh, Dayo Ayeni, Demilade Jemilugba, Dayo Adeniyi, Rodney Jackson Cole, Oluwamayowa Steepe


Evrica Events - event management system for Africa. Helps creating events and searching the events. Event publicity, registration and participation. A social booking system. Team members: Jide Olaniyan, Femi Taiwo, Anderson Obeh , Abdulhakim Haliru, Onigbinde Seye, Frankfurt Ogunfunminiyi, Femi Bilesanmi


Flippii - for Nigerian developers - share ideas and get feedback. Interested developers can join the project. Team members: Jesse Oguntimehin, Ayo Olaniyi, Ahmad Mukoshy, Akinwande Adegbola, Damilare Akinlaja, David Adamo Jr., Ernest Ojeh.





Comments: 3

  • David May 09

    Please post the pictures of the event to this page, Thanks

  • Francis Okaformbah May 12

    wishing I was there. Darn! missed it.

  • Dayo Aug 06

    @francis...start working towards the next!

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