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By Emeka Aginam, in at St Petersburg Team Nigeria and 9 other teams from the African continent are currently showcasing their  best technologies in the continent at the ongoing 2013 Microsoft Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition where students use their imagination and passion to create a technology solution that can solve the world’s toughest problems. At the global contest that kicked off Monday four best software incubators from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilefe, (OAU) and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (Lautech) Ogbomoso, Oyo respectively are flying Nigerian flag at the ongoing event which attracted no fewer than 309 students from 71 countries who have gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia to compete in three main categories like World Citizenship, Games and Innovation. Out   of the 87 finalists teams currently competing,  10 teams were  from Africa, including Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Egypt, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Botswana , Tunisia among oth...

By EEMEKA AGINAM, in St Petersburg The 2013 edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition, the football World Cup equivalent in software design attracted no fewer than 309 students from 71 countries who have gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia to compete in three main categories like World Citizenship, Games and Innovation. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition where students to use their imagination and passion to create a technology solution in one of the Microsoft competitions and challenges. Meanwhile, more than 60% of projects on showcase at the ongoing 2013 Microsoft Imagine students’ software competition were housed in the cloud through windows Azure, The Windows Azure marketplace is an online market for buying, and selling finished software as a service (SaaS) applications and premium data. This is even as four software incubators from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilefe, (OAU) and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (Lautech) Ogbomos...