Nigerian-Irish teens win international tech prize for dementia app
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THREE Nigerian-Irish teenagers won an international prize after developing an app, Memory Haven, to help people suffering from dementia. The female developers said they did it all by themselves. “We are young, ambitious girls starting small but aiming very high,” said 17-year-old Margaret Akano, 16-year-old Rachael Akano and 17-year-old Joy Njekwe. The teenagers from the eastern Irish town of Drogheda won the Grand Prize in the Technovation Girls Senior Division. They came first in a competition regrouping 5,400 students from 62 countries. The students created more than 1,500 mobile apps addressing problems ranging from Covid-19 to climate…