Dec 7, 5:00 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)
Join us at the Africa's Talking Open Hackathon and revolutionise energy solutions for Africa! Get your Ticket today! Karibuni.
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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.
Think big, start small, and scale fast!
Target Attendees:
What should you expect as an Attendee:
Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)
Contribute to open-source.
The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:
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
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:
Submit your Idea:
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:
Join community channels:
Slack:
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You can get our videos, recaps, and event interviews on our youtube channels, subscribe to get updates:
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.
Africastalking
Developer Relations TZ
Saturday, December 7, 2024
5:00 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)
Arrival |
Introduction and Presentation |
Team Formation and Hacking |
Lunch break |
Hacking continues |
Presentation begins |
Wrap Up |
University of Dar Es Salaam
Community Lead, 🇹🇿 Tanzania
Community Lead, 🇹🇿 Tanzania
Community Co-Lead, 🇰🇪 Kenya
Community Lead, 🇬🇲 The Gambia
Community Lead, 🇳🇬 Kaduna, Nigeria
Altech Group
Community Co-Lead, 🇷🇼 Rwanda
Sitemonki
Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda
Africastalking LTD
WIT Community Lead 🇰🇪 Kenya
Africa'sTalking Uganda
Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda
MlimiPay Limited
Community Lead, 🇲🇼 Malawi
Community Co-Lead 🇷🇼 Rwanda
Community Co-Lead, 🇰🇪 Kenya
FnStack
Community Lead, Congo
Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda
Community Lead Goma, DRC
Community Lead, Abuja, Nigeria
Community Lead, Kano, Nigeria