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| Dadson of Qualcomm and Davies of Mobile Monday Nigeria @April session |
Business Development Director for Qualcomm Africa, Mr. Alex Dadson, made this disclosed this to ITRealms at the Mobile Monday held in Lagos for the month of April, 2013 in an exclusive
interview.
He also said that the platform afforded Qualcomm to showcase
a number of technologies that the company introduced to the application
developers community in Nigeria.
“We have various Software Development Kits (SDKs), which
these application developers can really use to improve the qualities of their
applications,” he declared, adding that Qualcomm is using the Mobile Monday
platform to increase awareness about its own SDK and then announce training
programmes for the community moving forward.
According to Dadson, this training for developers is open
for Andriod developers in Nigeria with the hope that by the end of the year Qualcomm
and partners should showcase a couple of applications that are using its SDKs.
Currently, he said, Qualcomm has good support for Andriod
and a very broad support across various SDKs for Andriod, just as it has supports
for Windows and iOS, but starting with Andriod as far as Mobile Monday is
concerned.
Qualcomm, he said, has experimented on this initiative in
South Africa and plans to extend it to Nigeria and Kenya.
“We have done this in South Africa. It was in South Africa
that we started out talking about SDKs and doing some training for the
developers communities and we decided to add Nigeria and Kenya next. So, there
are the two hotbeds activities that we hope to tackle over the next couple of
months this year,” Dadson said.
The coordinator of the Mobile Monday Nigeria, Mr. Tom Davies
explained that Mobile Monday is an initiative that started in the year 2000 and
has grown to become a global organisation that facilitates business and fosters
business opportunities between members of the mobile eco-system, from Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to software application providers and developers.
“Mobile Monday manifested in Nigeria in 2010. What we are
currently doing is to enter into partnership with Qualcomm to develop the
developers in the Nigerian eco-system,” Davies said, stressing that he expected
that as a global leader, Qualcomm will help Mobile Monday onto putting the
Nigerian developers into the global platform itself, beginning with Developers Challenge
announcement and for those who are members of Mobile Monday who gets Qualcomm
certification actually stand a chance of winning a $1000.
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