Build BlackBerry Apps in South Africa: Opportunities around two Labs

Following the launch of the first Blackberry Apps Lab at the University of Pretoria in May, 2012, we have to learn that ,November 2, 2012, Blackberry opened the second South Africa Apps lab, this time in the innovation hub of Cape Town.

  This second site is part of the collaboration with Bandwidth Barn .The goal here aims to be more or less simple: ‘’accelerate mobile application development in South Africa as well as create new economic opportunities and jobs in the mobile space’’.

Therefore local developers, students, start-ups, entrepreneurs and others, have the opportunities to get access to: training resources or Marketing tools for enhance their apps or business.

Here are some opinions from attendees during BlackBerry® Jam Super Hackathon. “RIM has eliminated the cost that my startup company would have incurred by providing resources such as the latest BlackBerry devices for testing and high performance development machines,” said Blessing Mahlalela, a student at UP and a developer. Fellow UP student Leon van Dyk added, “My programming abilities for the BlackBerry platform have increased monumentally and so has my interest in mobile development as a career choice.”