With the sole purpose of promoting talent, innovation and creativity in the Nigerian space, IBM recently convened a software coding competition specifically designed to brush up the cloud and cognitive computing skills of the software development community.

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Lagos was chosen as the location to hold the event because of its mass population and home to 80% of Nigeria’s technology industry, according to Nigeria Computer Society (NCS).

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The young brilliant minds were pushed to maximise their potential in software design and coding skills to build software solutions around customer engagements and customer insight.

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Series of banking industry challenges and issues faced from local banks were also addressed by participants of the CogniHack.

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Some of the interactive challenges undertaken by the participants reflect the current perils of the Nigerian and regional banking industry.

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They are: contemporary mobile and electronic banking issues like customer service, money management, bill payments, storage, connecting farmers to sellers etc.

 



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