Ooredoo trains young mobile application developers

Ooredoo Kuwait, a member of the international Ooredoo Group, announced that training of participants in the Arab Mobile App Challenge is underway, with more than 40 participants. The acceleration program will include workshops and lectures aiming at enhancing their business, entrepreneurship and technical skills needed to enter the semi-finals of the competition in Dubai- January 2016.

The Acceleration day will be conducted on October 1^st in collaboration with Brilliant Labs, an international organization which aims at empowering teachers to support creative, leading, entrepreneurial, and lifelong students, for the 21st century.

The Global Mobile App Challenge enables participants to develop mobile apps designed to make an impact in the education, health, entertainment, and entrepreneurship sectors.

Workshop agenda will include lectures on start-up methodology and innovation to success. The program will also allow networking opportunities and group discussions.

Commenting on the sponsorship, Yousef Alshallal, Senior Manager, Social Media, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sponsorships at Ooredoo Kuwait said: “Empowering youth is a key objective in our corporate social responsibility strategy, we aim at developing the participants’ skills in all areas, when we talk about technology we talk about the future so by hosting such an event we are helping those participants forming their futures and achieving excellence in an area which they favour.”

Finalists will be invited to Regional Finals in January 2016. Winners are eligible for either financial prizes or the opportunity for a fully-paid invitation to compete at the Global Mobile Challenge in Barcelona, also founded by the Applied Innovation Institute (AII), and hosted by the Mobile World Congress.