Aminu Abdul Manaf, a level 300 student of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, has emerged winner of the Stanbic App Challenge.
Aminu won the challenge with the Zealous App, a fusion of several mini apps which include a currency converter, with 171 currencies and live exchange rates.
The App offers the opportunity to check past rates and view the trend between two currencies on a line graph.
It provides an expense tracker, interest rates on Treasury bills checker and live news from Ghanaweb.
Aminu walked away with GH¢20,000 and an all-expense paid trip to the e-Commerce Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa in February 2017.
The 1st runner-ups, Foster Awintiti Akugri and Norris Boateng, who designed the Sikapong App, were awarded GH¢7,000.
The designers of Stanbic Saver came third, winning GH¢5,000 while seven other finalists walked away with GH¢2,000 each.
The Stanbic Money App Challenge, a national mobile app development competition, forms part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility.
It began in March, with the aim of engaging programmers and software teams to create innovative financial education tools.
Twenty-five financial literacy app prototypes, built for Android and IOS platforms, were submitted for the App Challenge after which the judges chose the 10 finalists.
These Apps had various ingenious tools designed to help other people better understand how to manage their money and achieve their financial goals.
Mawuko Afadzinu, Head of Marketing and Communications at Stanbic Bank, said the bank was particularly concerned about the paucity of financial literacy in the country.
“One of the major reasons why so many of us in this part of the world have money issues is because we don’t understand the principles of handling and growing money. That is why it behooves us at Stanbic Bank to make sure that the understanding and knowledge of the way we handle money becomes a part of the way we live.”
Nana Benneh Dwomoh, Head of PBB, Stanbic bank, was confident the many creative ideas presented at the App Challenge will impact on lives.
“The world today is moving towards a digitized environment. And what’s more appropriate than to be able to combine money with the digital world we live in.”
-A business desk report