Co-founder and Coordinator of Destiny Trust, Abimbola Ojenike, has said the kids’ innovation challenge being staged by his organisation would revolutionise the digital space economy, as it focuses on fresh ideas.

He reiterated the firm’s commitment to improving children between ages of 10 and 17 through the contest.

The challenge, geared at identifying and nurturing the genius in underrepresented children, focused on children from public and low-income private schools, as well as indigent young secondary school leavers across the federation.

Ojenike said the objective goes beyond digital literacy, to include preparing the children for the future and providing them a means of tangible empowerment.

“We are preparing the kids to become problem solvers. It’s not for learning alone, the idea is for them to be able to relate with the environment around them, identify a problem and create a solution that works. That’s why we are celebrating some of the great innovations by children,” he noted.

The coordinator implored the Federal Government to target 95 per cent of digital literacy come 2030, by creating programmes that deliberately target low-income citizens and ensuring streamlined digital skills in schools.

At the demo event, Oluyemi Sopade and Government Technical College, Ikotun Team won the challenge, going home with N200,000, a plaque and an HP laptop. Tomilola Abayomi and the CradleCare App Team top were first runner-up, with a cash prize N150,000, a plaque and HP laptop for their efforts.

Mohammed Ibrahim & Nomastic App Team emerged second runner-up, winning a N100,000 cash prize, plaque and an HP laptop.

Co-founder, Kemi Ojenike, said they recognise the power of technology to change lives and radically transform humanity, hence children needed to take advantage of the new wave of technology.