Africa's Talking Open Hackathon Nairobi: Government Solutions

Oct 27, 2022, 5:30β€―AM – 3:00β€―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: State Government Solutions Agritech Health Care Tech Payments for services(Parking, Rent & rates, Licences) Get your ticket, let us exchange knowledge, and best practices, submit feature requests and innovate.

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About this event

The government is always designed to deliver services efficiently and on time to its citizen. When the technology is applied correctly and with the customers (Citizens) in mind then there is no doubt about building better robust solutions which serve the customer. Africa's Talking in collaboration with Elarian Developers would like to work closely with both the service provider (Government) and user (Citizen) to build these solutions.

Africa's Talking with 2G technology and Elarian; data intermediary solutions have revolved around building robust, accessible, and scalable solutions to our day-to-day service access, out of all the benefited sectors from technology adoption, government service delivery has enabled the government to deliver its service timely and efficiently. This has enabled Citizens to enjoy progress and growth in their day-to-day activities and achieve their maximum potential.

During this hackathon, we invite software engineers, partners, and government service providers/representatives to come and explore how to incorporate mobile 2G technology (SMS, Voice, and USSD) and data intermediary solutions to improve the quality of clean energy implementation.

Key Focus Area:

  • Agritech
  • Health Care Tech
  • Payments for services(Parking, Rent, rates & Licences)

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:

GIG/HACK DEVELOPER PORTFOLIO FORM

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@AfricasTalking

@ElarianHQ

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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 quickly.

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

Featured Attendees

  • Felix Kariuki

    Programme for Capacity Development in Africa

    Programmes Director

  • Martin Wainaina

    None

    None

  • Kevin Ochieng

    Wananchi Group

    Software Engineer

  • simon maina

    Equity

    Relationship

  • Michael Kimathi

    Impact Masters and Africa's Talking

    Dev Rel Community Lead

  • Killian Nthakyo

    iMobi Technology Labs Ltd.

    CEO

  • Hanson Williams

    TheDevelopersKE

    Founder

  • Desmond Mulei

    Deason Technologies LTD

    Mr

When

When

Thursday, October 27, 2022
5:30 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

5:30 AMIntroductions
6:15 AMTeam
8:00 AMBreak
9:15 AMSolution Review
10:15 AMLunch
10:45 AMHands-On hackathon
1:30 PMDemonstration and Wrap-up
3:00 PMNetworking

Hosts

  • Michael Kimathi

    Africa's Talking

    Head of Developer Community

  • Graham Ingokho Muhanga

    Africa's Talking LLC

    SVP Marketing

Organizers

  • Bennett Benedict

    University of Dar Es Salaam

    Community Lead, πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ώ Tanzania

  • Veronica Michael

    Community Lead, πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ώ Tanzania

  • Josphat Mwangi

    Community Co-Lead, πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

  • Sheriffo Jarju

    Community Lead, πŸ‡¬πŸ‡² The Gambia

  • Sanusi Abdulkadir

    Community Lead, πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Kaduna, Nigeria

  • Josh Venceslas

    Altech Group

    Community Co-Lead, πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ό Rwanda

  • David Okwii

    Sitemonki

    Community Co-Lead, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬ Uganda

  • Cynthia Moraa

    Africastalking LTD

    WIT Community Lead πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

  • Alexander Ikeh

    Community Co-Lead Abuja, πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

  • Aaron Ujah

    Community Co-Lead, Abuja, πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

  • Roland Ganafa

    Africa'sTalking Uganda

    Community Co-Lead, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬ Uganda

  • Stanislaus Sakwiya

    MlimiPay Limited

    Community Lead, πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ό Malawi