Join us at the Africa's Talking Open Hackathon and revolutionise energy sector solutions for Africa!

Get ready for the Africa's Talking Open Hackathon Dar es Salaam: Building Solutions for the Energy Sector! This event is designed to help developers, innovators, startups, and clean energy companies to build innovative solutions for Africa's energy sector challenges using Africa's Talking APIs.

Africa's Talking offers a comprehensive suite of developer-friendly APIs and SDKs that empower you to create secure, scalable, and user-friendly solutions for the energy sector. This Solutions hackathon is a dynamic hackathon designed to bring together energy sector experts, developers, and designers to collaborate and innovate on groundbreaking solutions in the energy space. The hackathon aims to address key challenges and opportunities in energy, and drive meaningful impact in the energy sector and industry. 

During the hackathon, you'll have access to Africa's Talking's expert mentors who will guide you in utilizing their diverse range of products, including SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, Insights, and Chat APIs, to enhance your energy sector solutions. These tools enable you to create robust and interactive energy solutions interfaces, improving accessibility and convenience for users.

Not only will you have the opportunity to showcase your skills and creativity, but you'll also compete for exciting prizes and gain recognition from industry leaders. The hackathon will provide a collaborative and stimulating environment where you can network with like-minded individuals, forming connections that may lead to future partnerships and ventures.

Join our hackathon to develop innovative solutions that will revolutionize the way we generate, distribute, and consume energy. Let's work together to build a sustainable energy future for Tanzania and Africa in general. Ignite your ideas at our energy hackathon. Let's build a brighter, more sustainable future for Tanzania and the world!

Key Focus Areas:

• Renewable Energy Innovation: Develop technologies that enhance the efficiency and scalability of renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power.

• Energy Storage and Battery Technology: Create advanced energy storage solutions to manage supply and demand, including batteries, supercapacitors, and other storage mediums.
• Smart Grids and IoT Energy Management: Design intelligent energy distribution systems using IoT devices and sensors to optimize grid performance and reliability.
• Energy Access for Underserved Communities: Build affordable and sustainable energy solutions to provide reliable power to remote or underserved regions.
• Energy Efficiency and Conservation: Develop applications or devices that help individuals and organizations monitor and reduce their energy consumption.
• AI and Data Analytics in Energy: Utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict energy demand, optimize resource allocation, and enhance maintenance of energy infrastructure.

Think big, start small, and scale fast!

Target Attendees:

• Energy Systems and Solutions Developers
• Data engineers
• Software Engineers
• Energy Researchers and Experts
• Government and NGOs 

What should you expect as an Attendee:

• Access to Cutting-Edge Tools and Workshops: Leverage Africa's Talking powerful APIs and SDKs, designed to make implementation seamless and hassle-free.
• Apprenticeship & Support: Work closely with seasoned experts from Africa's Talking who will guide and support you throughout the hackathon as we build with you.
• Networking Opportunities: Join as a member and connect with like-minded individuals, potential collaborators, and industry professionals.
• Cash Prizes, Recognition and Qualify to Join our Marketplace Program: Stand a chance to win exciting prizes, gain recognition for your innovative solutions and
• Impact Africa: Contribute to the economic growth and development of Africa by providing solutions that simplify and enhance energy sector processes.

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Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)

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The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:

1. Winner - $100 
2. 1st Runners Up - $50
3. 2nd Runners Up - $25

Africa's Talking powers communications solutions across Africa with simplified access to telco infrastructure, developers use our powerful SMS, USSD, Voice, Chat, Insights, Airtime and Data, to bring their ideas to life, as they build and sustain scalable businesses.

Agenda:

1. Warm-Up

• Introductions
• Form teams where need be.
• Feedback
• Feature requests

2. Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo

Note: This section needs additional setup.

Upon commit, the repository is built and deployed to an accessible web server or an S3 bucket.

3. Demonstration and Wrap-up

Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption.

Note: Carry a laptop

Opportunities:

• Network
• Innovate
• Access to our Talent bench (You can get a job or a gig on the spot)

Submit your Idea:

• Hackathon idea submission form

Gigs:

We would love to reach out to you so that you can build for our customers, please fill out this form with details to ensure we have your details:

• GIG/HACK DEVELOPER PORTFOLIO FORM

Join community channels:

Slack:

• Join Africa's Talking slack community here

Please follow our Twitter handles too:

• @AfricasTalking
• @ElarianHQ

You can get our videos, recaps, and event interviews on our youtube channels, subscribe to get updates:

• Africa's Talking Youtube Channel
• Elarian Youtube Channel

Africa's Talking community allows developers to learn skills for the modern-day African Developer. We are language and framework agnostic. All developers are welcome. This is where Africa's Talking developers community meets to build, learn and exchange knowledge.

We are helping software developers and businesses to bring their ideas to life through easy-to-use APIs easily.

Would you like to partner with us? Kindly contact the Developer Experience Team.