Nov 30, 2023, 5:30 AM – 5:00 PM (UTC)
Join us at the Africa's Talking Open Hackathon and revolutionise payment solutions for Africa! Get your Ticket!
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Join us at the Africa's Talking Open Hackathon and revolutionise payment solutions for Africa!
Are you passionate about creating innovative payment solutions that cater to the unique needs of the African market? Look no further! Our hackathon is the perfect platform for developers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts to collaborate and build cutting-edge payment solutions using Africa's Talking Products.
Africa's Talking offers a comprehensive suite of developer-friendly APIs and SDKs that empower you to create secure, scalable, and user-friendly payment solutions. Leverage powerful mobile payment APIs to integrate with popular mobile money platforms across Africa, enabling seamless transactions for users. With Africa's Talking, you can easily process payments, manage subscriptions, and handle disbursements with just a few lines of code.
Explore ImaliPay easy-to-use API Documentation, granting you the capability to seamlessly embed 20+ APIs tied to financial services into your platform with a single integration. Some of these APIs include;
You can access the ImaliPay API Documentation here
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, voice, airtime, and USSD APIs, to enhance your payment solutions. These tools enable you to create robust and interactive payment 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 us at the Africa's Talking Payments Hackathon and be at the forefront of revolutionizing payment solutions in Africa. Together, let's empower businesses and individuals across the continent with secure, efficient, and inclusive payment systems. Register now and be part of the payment solution transformation!
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The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:
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 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:
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Gigs:
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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 easily.
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Note: Departure time is 7:45 AM (kindly be on time).
Would you like to partner with us? Kindly contact the Developer Experience Team.
eldrage arts
Graphic designer
Qijani
CTO
Aqila Software
Co-founder/Software Engineer
Laminat plc
Md
ImaliPay
Software Engineer
KCA UNIVERSITY
MICROSOFT LEARN STUDENT AMBASSADOR
Northlink Telecom
Director
Electrixitaty
Founder & CEO
JT law
Software developer
Zetech
Student
WayaMoney
DevOps and Tech Support Engineer
Mitford Enterprises
C.E.O
Thursday, November 30, 2023
5:30 AM – 5:00 PM (UTC)
5:30 AM | Introductions |
6:00 AM | Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo |
10:00 AM | Lunch Break |
10:30 AM | Building Continues |
2:00 PM | Demonstration and Wrap-up |