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The centre aims to bring together the public, industry and scientists to address critical issues ranging from climate change to the degradation of the environment and the depletion of natural resources. By engaging industry players and the public in providing input and ideas through activities and projects, and with the contribution of technical expertise from the academic staff members of MUST, the centre is poised to generate new technologies and solutions that are both people friendly and environmentally friendly.

Limkokwing students showvent in Singapore - case innovative mobile applications at Nokia

Limkokwing team at the Nokia Connection Showcase 2011 held in Singapore last month. They displayed several mobile applications such as MathsFrenzy and Otokhanta among other innovations.

Nokia gave Limkokwing students the rare opportunity to showcase their mobile applications at the prestigious Nokia Connection Showcase 2011 held recently in Singapore from 21st June to 24th June.
Four students and three lecturers from the Faculty of Information & Communication Technology (FICT) and Faculty of Multimedia Creativity (FMC) respectively made the trip across the causeway to represent Limkokwing University of Creative Technology at Marina Bay Sands where ten entries were presented before the select committee of judges from Nokia.
The students - Edwin Koh Boon San, Harry Kho Yong Hua, Yong Cheng Fei and Theodorus Christian - impressed the judges with their ingenious creations.

Ingenious ideas

One of the entries, MathsFrenzy, developed by Edwin and Harry is a mathematical game aimed at kids to develop their thinking and reasoning skills through questions on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 
To date, MathsFrenzy has fetched over 48,107 downloads, which indicates the potential of the application.

The Limkokwing booth drew a steady flow of IT enthusiasts from all over the world. The University provides avenues for student creativity to help them explore new ideas to reinvent the industry.

Another version of the game - Otokohanta - produced by the Faculty’s Yong and Theodorus has since garnered more than 120,000 downloads. This is a simple shooting game developed in FlashLite comprising five different levels with each stage featuring exciting characters and backgrounds. 

Smart, profitable applications

SmartKids is another interesting application for children below five years of age. Developed by Rebecca and Kevin Ragui, it features maths quiz flash cards, alphabets, shapes and colour charts to provide toddlers with simple basics of arithmetic. 
The applications are attractive because of their usability in providing services and one example is the rapidKL LRT Route Finder, a widget that provides encoded traveling schedules and ticket fares besides calculating the time of traveling to help users plan better. 
Other intelligent applications include: Cornea Digital Eye Centre, Vitamin Widget, 1 Malaysia Language, Mobicar, Quick Qibla and Cook-Lah! 

Special invitation

In selecting these students, Nokia was acknowledging the creativity of Limkokwing students in general. According to Nokia “this showcase opportunity is extremely rare for universities. We seldom get students to showcase at any such Nokia major event”.
Recently Limkokwing University signed a MoU with Nokia Pte Ltd for the development of mobile platforms, training of staff and students as well as widgets creation.
Through the MoU, Nokia gave a financial grant of USD$15,000 (RM48,000) to help Limkokwing in the field of widgets development and the University’s presence at the Nokia Connection Showcase 2011 is ample testimony of progress made.

Creative freedom

Limkokwing University Vice President of Corporate Relations, Dato’ Fajura Juffa Mohd Kamal is optimistic of the partnership between Limkokwing and Nokia.
“We like to provide avenues for student creativity and this arrangement with Nokia creates an exciting platform and provides highly potential prospects for students to fully explore the medium that is becoming a primary vehicle for communication”.