Africa's Talking Open Hackathon: Health Tech Solutions

Aug 25, 2022, 5:30 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

Africa's Talking Community

Join us at our open hackathon every last Thursday of the month. Build with us, present feature requests, give feedback or contribute to our open source API and SDKs. THEME: Health Care Solutions Get your ticket, let us exchange knowledge, and best practices, submit feature requests and innovate.

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About this event

The adoption of technology in healthcare over the years has led to better diagnosis and treatment of patients. Out of all the benefited sectors from technology adoption, healthcare is probably the most important one.


During this hackathon, we invite software engineers, and healthcare professionals to come and explore how to incorporate mobile 2G technology (SMS, Voice, and USSD) to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.


Transport:

We will provide complimentary transport to and from Jeevanjee Garden. We will use SWVL.

Note that Jeevanjee Garden Departure time is 7:45 AM (kindly be on time). 


The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:

1. Winner - $100

2. 1st Runners Up - $50

3. 2nd Runners Up - $25


Elarian: Build Responsibly, Protect Customer Data.

Elarian is a customer engagement framework (Customer Data Platform) that helps you build robust applications with the customer as the unit of abstraction. Elarian features robust capability in handling end to end of customer data.


Africa's Talking powers communications solutions across Africa with simplified access to telco infrastructure, developers use our powerful SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, and Payments APIs 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:

Join community channels:

  1. Slack & WhatsApp:

Please follow our Twitter handles to:

@AfricasTalking

@ElarianHQ


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

    1. Africa's Talking Youtube Channel
    2. 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

Moderator

  • Michael Kimathi

    Africa's Talking

    Head of Developer Community

Judge

  • Michael Kimathi

    Africa's Talking

    Head of Developer Community

Featured Attendees

  • Jay Dwayne

    WASTUA

    CTO

  • Dennis Zitha

    Ontech

    CTO

  • lucas mgana

    ontekidevs

    Developer

  • Hussaini Mohammed

    Husmod Enterprise

    Mt

  • Cornelius Maroa

    Nairobi Forensics

    Software Engineer

  • Taibu Haroub

    Target Technology Ltd

    Software engineer

  • Goerge Ayume

    PC-Medics Horizons Tech

    Developer

  • Aliu Rasheed

    Hakiki Technologies

    CEO

  • Conrad Omwenga

    Slink Wireless

    Director

  • CALVINCES OTIENO

    SST

    CPO

  • Haguma Issa

    LAW FOR LOW LTD

    CEO

  • Sufiyanu Namadi

    Sufiyanu ferm

    Cto

  • Yahuza Sani Hudu

    YASHTECH

    CTO

  • Sammy Angana

    Stima Sacco

    Cfo

  • Griffins Oduol

    SkillCat and freelancer @ Upwork

    Software Developer

  • Thonne Twange

    LDRI

    Data analyst

  • Peter Ochanda

    Maroon Solutions

    CIO

  • Mark Saitoti

    Road Network Limited

    Consultant

  • Collins Ochieng

    connectshop.co.ke

    cto

  • Benjamin Sinzore

    Extra Inch Technologies

    Software Engineer

  • James Mukasa

    MONEYSENT U LTD

    CEO