As part of a contest called "API Challenge", the mobile operator, Orange Cameroon, just awarded three young Cameroonian project leaders in the field of ICT for projects on "Applications Programming Interface (API)," solutions developed by the telecom company.

The contest winners pocketed, respectively, 1 million CFA francs for the first prize and 500,000 CFA francs for the 2nd and 3rd prize.

The best project called "Echelon Fast Travel", was presented by Franklin Fofé, and consisted of the development of an application to purchase travel tickets via Mobile Money or internet, using the interface of API Orange Cameroon.

The other two projects, are respectively, a tutoring service online called "Smart's Cool" and an application for securing and managing vehicles created by a startup called Kiama Electronics.