Vconnect, Nigeria’s largest local search engine is partnering Mobile Monday Nigeria (a global community of mobile industry visionaries and software developers) on HACKATHON 2013, a software development contest tagged ”Entertainment Now” with a winning prize of $3,500.
In an official statement, the search engine giant explained the contest which holds June 24 in Lagos, would test competing developers on the creation of the best webpage movie applications within 8-hours.
“This contest is geared towards discovering skilled internet mobile application developers who have the ability to develop WAP movie applications usable on a variety of platforms using ASP.NET and PHP languages on a Microsoft SQL Server Database”, Vconnect said.
The Organisers are set to reward the winner with a star prize of $2000 and a dream opportunity to work at VConnect, while the second runner up and third runner get $1000 and $500 respectively.