1. Google I/O Extended 2013


    Brought to you by Google Developer Groups, Student Ambassadors, and local developers, Google I/O Extended lets you experience the magic and innovation of Google I/O remotely. Part viewing experience and part community building, I/O Extended programming includes everything from live streaming the Google I/O content to local developer demos, hackathons, and speaker sessions.

    Day 1: Wednesday, 15th May 2013 (4:00pm -8:00pm)

    Join us at 4pm as Francis Osifo anchors a Show and Tell.

    Topic: Developing an HTML5 video app with Youtube videos

    - Rapid development of an html5 mobile app
    - Accessing Youtube channel and specifying the videos to be integrated into the app
    - Wrapping the app with phonegap
    - Quick tip and tricks around development
    - Integrate Analytics
    Day 2: Thursday, 16th May 2013 (4:00pm)
    Livestreaming of Previous day’s events and keynote sessions.
    Day 3: Friday, 17th May 2013 (7:00pm – 5:00am)
    As part of Google I/O Extended 2013, interested developers in Lagos will be gathering at an all-night code party to hack for good. So if you are looking to hang out with really cool developers in Lagos to build cool stuff this Friday night, you should be at the CcHUB. We are looking to join hands with creative designers and developers skilled in PHP, HTML+CSS & jQuery.

    In almost every street corner is a beggar, a motherless baby, an intellectually challenged child, a disease-ravaged man or woman and a destitute with little hope of getting help or being saved.

    Several people have been motivated by the pain of others to start charitable organizations to help some of these people. HelpACause is a platform which allows Nigerians to help and donate to a specific cause – help a child get his much-needed Kidney-Transplant or help a motherless babies’ home stay open. No amount is too small. HelpACause will empower every well-meaning Nigerian to contribute and help others. Each donation is considered sacred and will be for verified causes only. Transparently.

    This CodeParty is a community-driven venture to bring together analysts, architects, developers and designers for an all-nighter with a focus on building this platform. Your time is a valuable contribution, necessary to make this much-needed platform a reality.

    We have got limited spaces on the code teams, so head over to http://googleioextendedcodepartylagos.eventbrite.com/ to reserve tickets.

    It’s a code party so there’s going to be plenty to eat and drink. And lots of swags too :)

  2. Growth Academy II Open Pitch Session


    Co-Creation Hub and Nokia are pleased to invite you to the Open Pitch session of the second cohort of the Growth Academy accelerator program.

    Growth Academy Program is a first of its kind business accelerator programme in Nigeria dedicated to providing intensive hands-on support to help approximately thirty (30) early stage tech start-ups/projects build world class mobile applications for the Nokia platform regionally and globally and to grow their start-ups into high yield businesses. The Growth Academy program is where top developers hone their skills; focus on developing world class solutions relevant for the local market and gain a clear understanding on how to monetize their solutions especially with mobile applications.

    The aim of the programme is to nurture the start of innovative tech ventures that will possibly disrupt the way we live and do business in Nigeria.

    Over the past three months, six teams have undergone hands-on and structured training and mentorship to actualize their ideas with modules around business model development, implementation plan and lean product development coordinated by the Co-Creation Hub. Working with Futurice (a leading global mobile software firm), the teams have enhanced technical expertise around mobile application development and user driven design.

    The Six Ventures

    The six teams in the second cohort of the programme have solutions covering agriculture, real estate, location based services, security, entertainment, human resources. The ventures are:

    iPolice: is a mobile and web security tool to help Nigerians get latest security information as well as collaborate with Security agencies:
    Download link: iPoliceMobile App

     

     

    JobsInNigeria: Fetches all the latest jobs in Nigeria and let’s you apply from your phone
    Download link: Jobs In Nigeria App

     

     

     

    CABAN: A mobile application that allows renters and buyers to search for properties in Nigeria and Agents to advertise properties utilizing a cost effective, self-managed platform

    Download link: Caban App

     

     

    GRAID: A tool made for poultry farmers to help with decision-making, analysis and much more to ensure the growth of their farms

    Download link: GRAID Feed App

     

     

    Nearest: A mobile application that allows you locate the nearest points of interest.

     

     

     

    BushParrot: All your news, gists and gossips in one place

     

     

     

    The Open Pitch Session

    The Open Pitch session will be the opportunity for the all the six teams to present their ventures to potential angel investors, mobile network operators, OEMs and other supporters for feedback and possible support. Each venture will have ten minutes to present followed by five minutes of comments/feedback/questions. The session not expected to last longer than three hours.
    Details of the event are as follows:

    Date: Monday April 29, 2013

    Time: 12 noon – 3pm

    Venue: Co-Creation Hub Nigeria, 6th Floor, 294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos
    Please confirm your participation by RSVPing to info@cchubnigeria.com on or before Friday April 26, 2013. For any enquiries, kindly contact CcHub at +23412950555.

    This is a great platform to engage with tech-entrepreneurs and find business investment opportunities & interesting ideas that have good market potential in Nigeria today.

    We look forward to seeing you.

  3. Seedstars Lagos


     

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    Seedstars World with support from CcHUB and OTEKBits bring you Seedstars Lagos. Seedstars World is an initiative launched by Seedstars SA, a Swiss-based company which launches ideas, grows startups and builds companies. The objective of the competition is to find the best startup in emerging and fast-growing startup scenes.

    Seedstars Lagos will hold at the CcHUB on April 26th 2013 for 20 pre-selected startups. Applicants must meet the following criteria to be pre-selected:

    • For profit start-up
    • Launched in the last 2 years
    • Have a demonstrable Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
    • Where external funding received, should not have exceeded USD 0.5m
    • Willing to talk about your product or service in public
    • Startup can be across any field; clean tech or consumer tech for example
    • Participants must be aged 18 or over

    To pre-apply, click here. Hurry up as applications close on Monday, 8th April 2013. And if you make the final list of 20 start ups that get to attend the pitch session, here is what to expect:

    • Maximum 6 minutes
    • Pitch must include: problem, solution, how it works, business model, short financials, team
    • Only one presenter
    • Format: PowerPoint, video or live demo.
    • Regional jury vote for the best regional startup.
    • Regional winners get regional prizes.
    • Regional winners are automatically selected to be part of the final.

    You can find out more here

    “Seedstars World is the most exclusive startup competition around the world. Only high quality startups can receive an invitation and are chosen following a strict selection process by professionals. The winner is crowned with the prestigious denomination Seedstars World Best Startup“.

     

  4. Post-Showcase Tuesday, Topup Genie share their thoughts


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    Topup Genie (TuG) is an airtime recharge platform that helps Nigerians QUICKLY and CONVENIENTLY topup their mobile phones, or that of friends, family, staff, church groups, et al.

    TuG delivers airtime recharge in 6 seconds or less making it the fastest way to topup in Nigeria.

    The TuG team presented at CcHub’s Showcase Tuesday on February 19 to share some of the platform’s new features with the tech community. Users had noted that our service only worked with internet/data plans activated. In response, we introduced TextMe Credit and FlashMe Credit.

    Using TextMe Credit is simple: The user sends an SMS with the syntax “Topup Amount AccountID” to 0817 460 4088. An example SMS is “Topup 2000 845CD” where 2000 is the amount of airtime requested, and 845CD is the unique account identifier. Innovative security measures ensure TextMe Credit is safe:

    1. It can only be used to top up the phone number where the top up request is originated
    2. The account owner must have previously authorised TextMe Credit for this phone number
    3. There is a limit to the total amount of airtime that can be obtained via TextMe Credit per phone number however this can be increases/reset by the account owner. In the example above, at least ₦2,000 of that limit should be available for a successful transaction. Note the account owner must also have a balance of at least ₦2000 to execute the transaction.

    SMS functionality is phone agnostic and TextMe Credits are charged at the network SMS rates (₦4)

    FlashMe Credit is a ‘Joker’ for INSTANT airtime. The user simply flashes the same phone number above to buy airtime. The security features are the same as in Text Top up however the amount of airtime to be topped up, e.g. ₦200, ₦500, must have been predefined by the account owner.

    A robust discussion followed with a lot of interest in the specific technologies used to power the features. A teaser about our coming Pay-Like-Magic and Merchant/Affiliate services was shared with developers to get them excited about some of the new things cooking in the Genie Lamp.

    The Hub is an exciting place to be as it feels like the epicentre of Nigeria’s nascent tech revolution. The number of skilled web and mobile app developers, designers, and their resultant ventures is sensational and will only increase as more people take advantage of the laid foundations. It is really an avenue for co-creation as we have been beneficiaries of – the re-architecting of the TuG platform post its initial launch where community members helped brainstorm on intelligent ways to make it robust and scalable. This collegial atmosphere and community ethos is one of the Hub’s strength and the advantage any tech start-up working out here has over many others.

     

    This piece was contributed by the Topup Genie team. You can find out more about topping up your line using Topup Genie here

  5. CcHUB in the News


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    The past few weeks have been pretty eventful. And we have been a lot more in the news about our work and gotten mentions from traditional and non-traditional news media within and outside Nigeria.

    Errol Barnett, anchor and correspondent for CNN International paid a visit to the Hub. He documents his impressions of our work and its impact on social innovation in Nigeria.

    His opening lines read, ‘Fingers tickle keyboards fastidiously, bright-colored walls boast signs reading “We Code Hard,” and an idle foosball table waits for its next contenders. These are all signs you’ve entered a place for passionate tech enthusiasts. But if ‘Bosun Tijani has his way, this is where Nigeria’s next great idea will be born.’ Read the rest of the post here

    And if you are yet to see Errol’s brilliant coverage of CcHUB, here is another opportunity to see it here. I can’t seem to get enough of it :)

    Also in the week gone by, Iain Marlow, of the Globe and Mail examines the peculiar challenges faced by Lagosians and their approach in tackling them with homegrown solutions that are fast becoming replicated in places with similar challenges in other parts of the world. In a piece titled ‘How activists and private enterprise are transforming Lagos’, CcHUB’s role in driving social change using technology tools gets a healthy mention. Relax and take some time out to check out Iain’s piece here.

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    Image credits: CNN

    Ojo Maduekwe, in This Day Newspapers on the 21st of March 2013 writes on ‘Exploring Nigeria’s Untapped Software Industry’.

    He makes a case for the increasing importance of the rise of local content by Nigerian software developers and how their work was beginning to attract organisations in the ilk of Intel Global, a microchip and Software giant who were beginning to take notice of the work around here with intentions to help grow the local software industry. More on that story here

    Ojo Maduekwe in his piece quotes ‘Bosun Tijani, co-founder & CEO, CcHUB, “the Nigerian Software Industry is undergoing a quiet knowledge revolution driven in part by demands from evolving non-traditional sectors like entertainment, creative arts, tourism and hospitality amongst others and the general awareness of the potential role of technology in leapfrogging development across the entire African continent.” Read the rest of the article here

    And you would think we were done with hugging the headlines for all the right reasons :) .

    Wait till you read Michelle Atagana’s thoughts on our vision of partnering forward-looking organisations in building a Tech Neighbourhood in Yaba. She captions her brilliant piece ‘Why build a tech city when you can build a tech neighbourhood?’. You can find the rest of the story here.

    Michelle is Managing Editor at Ventureburn

    Thanks for reading. Have a great week.

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