FUT Minna wins Ispon Software Cup with One School Solutions

Two software incubators from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State have won this year’s national software Innovation competition organized for students in Nigerian tertiary institutions at African knowledge city, Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River state.

Olofu Mark and Oguntade Temitope from the department Mathematics and Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering respectively beat students from 16 other tertiary institutions.

They developed a solution titled : One School, a one-stop solution that provides generic and unified solution to support e-learning, e-teaching and e-school administration.

For that effort, they won a total prize of N3.3 million including Cross River State government N2 million star prize and another N1 million for winning Prof. Cleopas Angaye Cup as the best Open Source Software Developer of the Year.

Similarly, the team also won Prof. Cleopas Angaye Cup for the best Open Source Software Developer of the Year worth N250,000 to be awarded by the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency, (Nitda). This brings the total prize award to three million two hundred and fifty thousand naira.

Additionally, the Cross River state government gave the first runner-up and every category winner of the competition N1 million each.

According to Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (Ispon), Software licenses are major challenges to both software industry and the end-users. It is therefore important that conscious efforts are made to develop solutions that are progressively made free to the society irrespective of the users' platform.

The conference and competition is the second in the series an had the theme: "Cloud Computing and the future of software Nigeria".

It was organized by Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria and hosted by the Cross River State government.