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Nigerian Teenage Girls win Silicon Valley Tech Competition #Technovation

Nigerian Teenage Girls win Silicon Valley Tech Competition #Technovation jaiyeorie


A team of teenage girls representing Nigeria beat other teams from the United States, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to win the 2018 ‘Technovation’ world pitch junior division in San Francisco, USA.
The team Save-A-Soul from Nigeria – selected from 2,000 mobile app developers to represent Africa – developed a mobile application called ‘FD Detector’ to tackle the problem of fake pharmaceutical products in the country, Channels writes.
The team, came first to the final after confronting judges around the world. This is the first time that a junior team in Nigeria will emerge from the finalists to visit Silicon Valley and Nigerian teenagers will launch their application to investors from Silicon Valley, California. Technovation is a program that invites girls to identify a problem in their communities and then challenge them to solve them by developing applications The teenage girls of Anambra State argue that Nigeria has the largest market for fake medications and plans to partner with the National Agency for Administration and Control of Drugs and Foods (NAFDAC), using the application to face this challenge .




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