Menoo!, one of Indonesian applications for Blackberry (and Android) platform developed by Elasitas, proudly be awarded as the only Indonesian application winning the BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge as the First Runner Up. This application focuses on the BBM Social Platform implementation. BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge is one of the BlackBerry Developer Conference event series held on 18th – 20th October 2011 in San Francisco.
The winners of this award are chosen based on the region. For Asia Pacific region, Menoo! snatches the winning position with Cricket With Friends from Synqua Games as Grand Winner, while GiftnTake from Risto Mobile is awarded as the Second Runner Up. Besides for Asia Pasific, the prizes are also awarded for other region such as North America, Latin America, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa).
As First Runner Up, Elasitas, Menoo!’s developer, gets the prize as follow:
- Two (2) Local DevCon conference passes
- One (1) Media press package
- One (1) App World carousel placement for a duration of 2 weeks
- One (1) Select level Alliance Membership
- One (1) BlackBerry PlayBook
- Two (2) BlackBerry Smartphones
- One (1) $500 BlackBerry accessory gift certificate (any and all terms and conditions associated with a BlackBerry gift certificate apply)
Totally, the prize received by the First Runner Up is about $17,497 (more than IDR 150 million).
Calvin Kizana, CEO of Elasitas, cannot hide his happiness. Calvin said “It’s surely a prideful achievement for Elasitas and Menoo!’s team. Finally our work gets fruition. For the first time, we were in doubt whether we can be successful in this award since it is an international competition. Moreover, Menoo! is our first consumer application. However, our curiosity and confidence from Menoo!’s team can beat the doubt and finally we succeeded to win the competition”.
“By this achievement, we proof that Indonesian innovation is no less than other countries’ product. Therefore, I would like to share my suggestion for my friends, Indonesian developers. Start working! Be committed and you will get what you want! You can make Indonesian proud of you in International technology realm. We have proofed it, you all, other developers can do the same!” said Calvin via email.
Congratulation Menoo! I hope there will be more application developed by Indonesian developer can go International.
