CLOUDIORA OS; THE FUTURE OF WEB TECHNOLOGY(DEVELOPED IN NIGERIA)

According to its website, Cloudiora is an operating system re-imagined and built on web technology. It is a single software platform that runs across various devices including smartphones, tablets, TVs and PCs. While many people may argue that Africa holds some of the brightest and intelligent minds. The fact remains that the human resources and capital from these great continent are no longer in hibernation. Recently, there have been a lot of innovations coming from African Nations. The days of logical and coordinated marginalization are over. Technology has opened the gateway and provided the level playing ground for active participation. I met Aminu Bakori the founder of Friendstie and the brain behind Cloudiora OS at an event in Kaduna. Friendstie Concept is a Nigerian based technology company that designs, builds and sell custom computer software and online services that helps in addressing problems faced by individuals and businesses around the world. 

As an enthusiastic developer with a hunger for innovation and problem solving solutions, Aminu developed an OS which works seamlessly with all devices. The idea was to have a multi-platform operating system that allows you to manage your documents, access your media files and collaborate with other people. Something that can work side-by-side with another operating system (either via Virtual Machine or Desktop App) or on a standalone system. Cloudiora OS is designed to make unified computing experience a reality: one system, one experience, multiple devices. As a user centric product, Cloudiora was built with the user in mind. It went through several reviews from top tech professionals before its public release. Their feed backs helped in shaping what Cloudiora is today. Aminu was quoted saying “We want to put a computer on every student’s desk in Africa using this platform. That was why we created Cloudiora”. It was completely built using HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript. We would have tour of the OS and some its amazing features.

Among the features of Cloudiora is the familiar startup menu we have in Windows but this time it uses the Google app interface design. It also have a browser called Blade, a camera app, document editor, a file manager, notes keeper, photo viewer, PDF reader, settings and an app store.   On the right sight of the desktop interface is the side bar that enables you to minimize apps, and see other notifications like the calendar and also monitor your system battery usage. The file manager acts like the file explorer which is used to access documents and files saved on the device. Cloudiora comes with inbuilt system applications like the calculator, music player, movie player etc. The most interesting thing about these applications is that they are built with the same web technology that was used to create the OS. The founder also said “One thing about Cloudiora is that we are providing hardware APIs, so instead of just waiting for W3C standards we will expose these APIs via the web meaning that you can access your computer from anywhere. You can have a computer at the office and access all your files and documents via another computer while at the comfort of your bedroom”.

The flexibility offered by Cloudiora is nothing to comprehend with and only a few people in the world might have thought of a thing like that. All what you enjoy on your PC could automatically be dissociated with the hardware itself. This alone is a game changer in the way we interact with computers and other devices. It means we don’t have to fear a hardware failure or damage as all our vital information and projects are safely saved on the web. Cloudiora also seeks to empower individual app developers to create apps that will work with the OS. Software development is already a huge market. Cloudiora will work on the existing framework in which developers can make money doing what they know best. No doubt the time has come for Africa to rise above all expectations. Like in the words of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa "The first of these is that Africa must not be allowed to become a battleground in the ideology struggle".