We had earlier announced the Google Apps developer Challenge, a challenge aimed at providing developers the world over the opportunity to find new and innovative ways to use the Google Apps and Drive APIs to build cool apps.

Innovative developers who create applications using the Google Apps and Drive APIs would be eligible to win a prize of $20,000 dollars.

Google recently announced the challenge’s semi finalists from all around the world. Some interesting apps made the cut from Africa. Check out some of them below!

Sub-Saharan Africa

Enterprise / Small Business Solutions

• DocTracker, Uganda
  DocTracker manages incoming and outgoing office document records.
• NomiaPro, Ghana
  NomiaPro is a web application that will help businesses organize all their conferences delegates
• Form+, Nigeria
  This application brings the power of Google Drive to forms.

Education / Not for Profit / Water / Food & Hunger / Health

• Daktari, Uganda
  Daktari is a an application that helps one, specifically patients communicate easily with doctors
• Open Docs Hub, Cote d’Ivoire
  The Open Docs Hub is a document sharing open source platform that leverages the power of Google Drive
• Daro, Kenya
  Daro, swahili slang for ‘class’, is a simple app for managing a class.
• DoctorPlus, Nigeria
  DoctorPlus is a non-profit online medical service aimed at leveraging the on the Google Apps platform to provide the minimal infrastructure needed
• Prep-hub, South Africa
  Prep-hub is a web application that hosts past examination and test papers for students and encourages collaboration between them as they prepare for examinations and/or tests
• Open Drive, Togo
  Open Drive is a collective encyclopedia project based on Google Drive public files and on the crowd sharing, crowd sourcing and crowd-solving principles
• Realinx, South Africa
  Realinx is an easy way to organise information according their relationships.
• QuizerApp, Kenya
  An app intended to make classroom revision easier and fun, both for the lecturers (tutors) and the students.
• Identichip, South Africa
  Service that allows users to search for information about a tag / microchip

Social / Personal Productivity / Games / Fun

• Tunebanda, Kenya
  Tunebanda is a easy-to-use music player application for Google Drive
• I-Organize, Cameroon
  I-Organize is a tool that could be used to semantically reorganize the files of your drive by categories.
• Fist Drive, Zambia
  Fist Drive is a mobile, cloud file sharing application for Google Drive
• Integrated Project Manager, Kenya
  A task manager implemented as a chrome extension and integrates with Google Tasks and Google Calendar
• Dextop, Uganda
  Dextop is a desktop-like portal to your cloud-based applications. A lightweight virtual desktop
• Tokelezea, Kenya
  Tokelezea is a social event checkin and management application
• BabiEvents, Cote D’ivoire
  BabiEvents is a web app that allows to know the events that take place in Cote D’Ivoire – where and when
• Remindme, Uganda
  Location based reminder
• Ludo Game, Nigeria
  Ludo Game is an online multiplayer ludo board game

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