Ghanaian Developer Wins Global Award

Eyram Tawia

Eyram Tawia, Chief Executive of Leti Arts, has been adjudged the ‘Best Established Developer’ at the Vodafone AppStar international competition held in India.

Leti Arts, developers of the Africa’s Legends app, won the global award in the ‘Best Established Developer’ category, beating others from Kenya, India, Tanzania and South Africa. 

Eyram Tawia won the same award in Ghana at the maiden edition of the Vodafone Ghana AppStar competition, which was organized last year.

As part of the award package, Leti Arts’ Africa’s Legends app would be featured on the Vodafone global app store, with an all-expense paid trip to the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as well as an opportunity to meet and interact with Vodafone Group’s Senior management team.  

Director of Strategy and Innovation at Vodafone Ghana, Julius Owusu-Kyerematen, said his outfit was thrilled that Leti Arts had been recognised globally as possessing the best-developed mobile application at the international competition.

“We are absolutely thrilled that Leti Arts has been globally recognised as possessing the best developed mobile application at the international competition. We have always maintained that as a company, we will continuously support unbridled creativity and innovation while consolidating our position as pioneers and leaders in the telecoms sector,” Mr Owusu-Kyerematen.

Africa’s Legends app allows users to enjoy a superhero series developed by Leti Arts with a heavy influence of folklore and historic legends from across Africa. 

The primary objective of the AppStar competition is to recognise and reward app developers in the mobile applications industry across the globe and specifically in key Vodafone markets.

This year’s Vodafone Ghana’s AppStar competition will commence in August, 2015 with the grand finale set to take place in December. 

It is generally opened to anyone with the capability to develop a cool app in any of the listed platforms – Blackberry, Android, J2ME, Windows Phone, iOS.