ronoDaily Nation Friday 14 Dec, 2012

By Nation correspondent

Two Kenyan innovations emerged top in the first-ever Vodafone app star challenge held i south Africa yesterday.

Beating 6,000 entrants from six African and middle eastern countries, Mr Gerald Kibugi won the first prize with his action adventure game app’ tough jungle’ that introduces users to Kenya’s culture and history in an interactive way.

His app is an original Kenya game with different levels of play which are revealed after successful navigation of one level. Mr Gilbert Rono, another Kenyan and a first year student at Kenyatta university, won the second prize for his ‘ eureka’ app-an educational application that helps student solve mathematical problems.

A simple intuitive application that assists in calculating mathematical and arithmetic problems, eureka not only provides the solution but also displays a step-by –step approach to the problem.

‘’ they all will walk away with prizes and their apps wiil be launched in the apps stores and be made accessible to millions of customers from across the world,’’vodacom’s managing executive of digital media prins Mhlanga said.

Mr Kibugi got sh2.12 million he won at the national level while Mr Rono got sh 1.27 million in addition to the sh500,000 he won at the local coast