App being developed to link local farmers, int’l markets

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Advisor to the Minister of Public Communications Lance Hinds (second, from left) presents Julius Simmons, of Innovative Systems Inc., with the $300,000 cheque for create the winning app in the Codesprint 2017 competition. (Department of Public Information photo)
Advisor to the Minister of Public Communications Lance Hinds (second, from left) presents Julius Simmons, of Innovative Systems Inc., with the $300,000 cheque for create the winning app in the Codesprint 2017 competition. (Department of Public Information photo)

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications (MoPT) will be working along with the winning developer of an app which would allow local farmers to sell their produce in a global online market place.

“While we have the platform there are a lot of hurdles we need to cross before we can make it something that is usable,” Julius Simmons, a team member of Innovative Systems Inc., the winner of MoPT’s Codesprint 2017, told Stabroek News on Friday.

“We won’t be doing this on our own and that is where the ministry comes in … Once it [the app] is marketed, the sky is the limit because there will be no person that cannot access the platform,” he added.

It was announced on Friday afternoon, at MoPT’s Camp Street office, that the Innovative Systems Inc. team was