OTGPlaya Secures Commercial Order, MobiQube is Anzisha Prize Finalist

OTGPlaya Entity LLC, a Wennovation Hub company secured its first sizable commercial order by virtue of an order from a major supplier of educational equipment to Texas school districts this past week. OTGPlaya initial supply will be fulfilled within thirty days, and marks a significant milestone in the life of the start-up that delivered the first prototype of its scalable platform in July. OTGPlaya was designated by the Texas Buy Board contractor as a major equipment supplier by virtue of this order, and will service the multi-year contract to deliver OTGPlaya devices to school districts across the State of Texas.

OTGPlaya Entity LLC is a technology development company with a proprietary platform (combination of hardware and software) that delivers OTGPlaya licensed content to entertainment lovers and students alike utilizing its real-estate conserving and bandwidth efficient equipment and seamless software/applications. Educational institutions can particularly leverage the OTGPlaya Kiosk to aggregate and deliver content via synced applications to OTGPlaya low-cost but powerful Genie tablet, that seeks to revolutionize the way students learn in the classroom.  Through its subsidiary in Nigeria, Prime CoHall Limited, OTGPlaya plans to deploy digital kiosks across Lagos state to deliver multimedia content to entertainment lovers currently handicapped by lack of access to reliable broadband connection, the premium cost of obtaining scarcely efficient access and the unreliability of the current ubiquitous DVD medium.

OTGPlaya CEO, Modupe Ajibola, did not not mince words in his email to his team that "the fulfillment of this first order, will mark the first step towards revolutionizing content is delivered in challenging environments; be it our schools or in emerging markets".

MobiQube Emerge Finalists

In related news,  the Wennovation Hub is pleased to announce that that 20-yr old Mahmood Oyewo, a co-founder of MobiQube Limited another Wennovation Hub company is one of 13 anzishaprize finalists out of a pool of 270 entries. MobiQube's flagship product is released this summer is RubiQube, an mobile app that aggregates geographic relevant applications for users. Mahmood will be heading to South Africa later in the week in an attempt to bring his incredible innovation to a continent badly in need of young innovators and entrepreneurs. Anzisha Prize is a Mastercard Foundation/Africa Leadership Academy backed prize for young innovators on the continent.

Wennovation Hub Launches WennoCamp 1.0 for Mobile Apps Development

Seven of the thirty students trained by the partnership between LoftyInc and the MIT Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) , to incubate student launched local businesses around mobile application developers at the University of Ibadan this summer, have been selected by the Wennovation Hub to herald the first cycle of the Wennovation Camp this Fall. 

The product enhancement and development process will be supported by business & technology mentors sourced from among the associates’ rank of the Nigeria Leadership Institute, and technical assistance will be rendered by Google Africa.

Since the MIT-AITI program ended in August, the process of Wennovating begun in earnest as these entrepreneurs were screened and carefully selected for fit into the incubation model, and allowed to reshape their teams accordingly around the best ideas. 

The seven "wennovators" selected were from four teams at MIT-AITI program (InveniQ, Ting Mobile, Compass and Pluss) with very exciting products which may be enhanced or entirely remade during the WennoCamp. The Camp will span six weeks of product enhancement and business development leading up to seed funding and operations using the Hub as their space in the first few months of beta product launch. 

The Wennovators are organized into two inter-disciplinary entities (teams):

Team 1 (Opacus Technologies Limited)- Alpha Product: Location Awareness & Transport Finder App

 

TL-R: Wennovators 1.0:  Dara Adeyemo,Diji Adeyemo,                          Ibrahim Abiola, Adetayo Rabiu

Team 2 (Business Name Pending CAC Approval) - Alpha Product: Enterprise Expense & Recruiter App

L-R: Oluwatosin Adesanya, Onitilo Oluremi, Oghenekhowo Tega

During the Camp, the seven "wennovators" aim to coalesce around redesigned and fused products from their initial pass at their ideas, and eventually launch into the market at least two mobile technology products focused companies in Nigeria. The greatest promise of these teams is to optimize their existing products, build newer ones and truly bring Nigeria Mobile App development into the business mainstream.

The "business bootcamp" heralding the six-weeks WennoCamp 1.0 is scheduled to begin in earnest on November 2, 2011. Exciting activities including engagement of notable CEOs, Technology gurus and bandstorming sessions are planned during the program. 

This program further enhances LoftyInc's continued focus on enhancing Nigeria's innovation eco-system specifically focusing on areas like mobile technology where our impact can be most felt. It also validates the unique business incubation model designed by LoftyInc.

Our thanks to all our partners for helping us bring this program to fruition.