Uber is determinedly expanding its African reach. In its latest effort, the famed taxi app has teamed up with Tech website Techcabal.com to encourage Nigerian developers to enable real world applications from their apps to leverage its API.
Uber launched its API last year and has added support that enables third-party developers to be in “the driver’s seat, giving them the power to hit Uber’s API to request rides and dispatch driver-partners in the real world” according to Ebi Atawodi General Manager for Uber Lagos.
To further encourage developers, Uber is presently running a virtual hackathon and anyone from anywhere can participate. As for the Nigerian version, Uber’s aim, in conjuction with Techcabal, is to both encourage Nigerian developers and also showcase the best Nigeria-relevant implementations via the hackathon event in Lagos.
According to Techcabal, who are partners for the event, apart from the amazing cash and perk prizes for the top winners at the global level, the top three Nigerian apps that build based on the Uber API at the event will get:
1st Prize:
An exclusive interview with Techcabal.
An exclusive feature on blog.uber.com
Inclusion in the TechCabal announcement of Nigeria’s top three winning apps
Opportunity to present the Uber engineering team with their wining idea
Exclusive brainstorm sessions with the following Nigerian tech masterminds to help take their apps further:
Emeka Afigbo (Google)
Adia Sowho (Etisalat Nigeria – Head of Digital Media)
Jason Njoku (iROKO Partners)
Tayo Oviosu (Paga)
Richard Tanksley (Pulse.ng)
50, 000 Uber Credits
2nd Prize:
Inclusion in the TechCabal announcement of Nigeria’s top three winning apps
An exclusive feature on blog.user.com
Opportunity to have a 1-1 with an Uber Engineer, discussing their app
N25,000 Uber Credits
3rd Prize:
Inclusion in the TechCabal announcement of Nigeria’s top three winning apps
An exclusive feature on blog.uber.com
N25, 000 Uber Credits
To attend the Uber Hackathon in Lagos, email a presentation of your entry to support.lagos@uber.com for an exclusive invitation.
The deadline for global submission is the 17th of May, so there are just under thirty days to create great stuff that is relevant to Lagos and uses the Uber API.
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