MINPOSTEL receives Cameroonian and Lone Winner of Fire Base Category
Minister Minette Libom Li Likeng was overwhelmed as she received in audience on Thursday 28th November 2024, the 26 years old, Muluh MG Godson Ndahi, Founder of Nayi Start-up Company and laureate in the 2024 GOOGLE GEMINI AI Competition for the project “TRIPPY”.

This is a Competition that was launched in May 2024, for developers worldwide with aim to get the best project developed using Artificial Intelligence (AI). 119 countries competed under 9 categories and approximately 3500 projects submitted.
Explaining what the project is all about, the laureate said, “TRIPPY is built on the Fire Base Category, one of Google’s products that encompass all the back ends with all information stored in CLOUD. It is an application that trivializes travel planning. It comprises different websites for different needs. With its advantage of dealing with real time situation, the App leaves you the latitude to choose from a variety of proposed flights, accommodations etc, alongside their costs. It equally takes photos of your receipts for accountability purposes and can convert currencies just with a short voice description.
According to Muluh, the competition was very intense and fierce “there were competitors and software engineers from big companies and renown universities and I was working alone yet, Cameroon was the only country that won in this category and was awarded a cash prize of fifty thousand Dollars”. He said.
His presentation left the Minister and her close collaborators amazed and taken aback at such a brilliant achievement and product. The Minister immediately tagged him an Ambassador of Digital Technology. “We are not only celebrating a victory that honors you but the entire Nation. Your case is an example to young people because you have dared despite the challenges and risks.”
She went further to reassure the laureate of the pride The President of the Republic takes over such achievements scored by young people in the international scene. She emphasized that it goes beyond honor. It adds to the country’s credibility, thereby spurring and attracting foreign investments.
The Minister called on the young startup to keep believing in himself and cautioned him to develop applications that will solve the daily problems of Cameroonians so that he will not only hugely reap from his hard work but will equally see his projects benefit from a whole lot of support from the government.
In this light, the young Founder revealed some projects in the pipeline. One of which is a rural universal access project based on sustainable energy by developing low cost hardware powered by solar energy. He says this will permit over 5000 students to browse with or without electricity and or internet connection on Wikipedia and other apps. The second project is working towards putting Cameroon in space with “SPACE OS”, a satellite operating system.
These revelations prompted Minister Minette Libom Li Likeng to open wide the door introducing the Project to Accelerate Digital Transformation in Cameroon (PATNUC) and the Cameroon Digital Innovation Centre (CDIC) to the laureate explaining that they are structures the government has put in place to provide answers to Telecommunications matters. “Congratulations once more and be rest assured that the government is and will always be ready to support you and all those that are willing to work for the development of digital technology in Cameroon”, she concluded.
It is worth noting that, Mr. Muluh was discovered at the CRTV magazine program TECH 237, a platform supported by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. It puts on the lime light, the innovation of all Cameroonian digital technology startups and projects the strides made by individuals, private and public entities in the Telecommunications sector.