Jun 5, 5:00 AM – 4:00 PM (UTC)
Africa's Talking, Nairobi County and Liquid Intelligence Technologies proudly present hackathon aimed at redefining the future of security: Join us and build tourism and culture solutions while exploring 2G, AI and IoT solutions. Get your Ticket Today!
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Africa’s Talking, Nairobi County, and Liquid Intelligence Technologies are thrilled to unveil an exceptional event engineered to revolutionize the landscape of government operations: the Open Hackathon centered on devising Tourism and Culture Solutions, This dynamic event invites tech enthusiasts, developers, and innovators to design groundbreaking solutions aimed at enhancing developments in the tourism and culture sector. This hackathon will bring together developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and cultural enthusiasts to create innovative solutions that showcase the richness of African heritage, promote sustainable tourism practices, and deliver seamless experiences for visitors. Explore the intersection of technology, travel, and culture, and be part of shaping the future of Africa's tourism industry.
Africa's Talking and Liquid Intelligence Technologies APIs play an integral role in creating technologies that can help preserve and digitize cultural artifacts, traditions, and indigenous knowledge. These APIs, which are CPaaS and Telecommunication APIs, can be utilized by public administration systems to facilitate and promote sustainable and eco-friendly tourism, such as tools for carbon footprint tracking or responsible travel planning. Africa's Talking APIs and Liquid Intelligence Technologies APIs will be at the core of our hackathon, providing tools to seamlessly integrate communication and AI-driven analytics into your solutions. Africa's Talking APIs will enable real-time SMS, Voice, Chat, Mobile Data, Airtime and USSD communication between citizens and tourism professionals and cultural experts to provide personalized recommendations and information to tourists. Meanwhile, Liquid Intelligence Technologies' APIs will offer cutting-edge AI capabilities, from facial recognition to pattern detection, optimize tourism infrastructure and operations, such as traffic management or resource allocation. Together, these technologies will empower participants to develop innovative, effective solutions that pave the way for innovations in the Tourism and Cultural Sector. Join us to harness these powerful APIs in our quest to revolutionize tourism and cultural settings!
Challenges:
Culture and Knowledge Preservation: Preserving and digitizing cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge using technology, 2G and AI tools.
User Experience and Engagement: Improving visitor experience and engagement at cultural sites and attractions using technology tools to take in and record feedback, help in navigation, offer guides, etc.
Target Attendees:
Objectives:
Enhance the Visitor Experience: Develop innovative solutions that create engaging, immersive, and personalized experiences for visitors at cultural heritage sites, museums, and other tourist attractions.
Prizes:The winning solutions will receive cash prizes:
Access Liquid Intelligence Technologies API Here
Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)
The mock API has been pre-populated with over 50 vehicle entries. The vehicle registration numbers for these entries can be found HERE .
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Warm-Up
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Building/Hacking
1:00 PM : Lunch
1:00 PM - 5:00PM: Building Continues
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Demonstration and Wrap-Up
Opportunities:
Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)
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 quickly.
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AT WIT Kenya Community Lead
Fahari
ICT Manager
RehiGreen Energy Consultancy
Software Developer
Eclectics international LTD
Attachee
LESOM Dynamics
Founder
collins
CEO
University of Nairobi
Mr.
N/A
Front-end Developer
Envisage Multimedia
Software Developer
KENINDIA ASSURANCE Co LTD
SALES AGENT
Rufmo Consulting Ltd
Research and Tech Assistant
CANDIT
CEO-FOUNDER
KCA
Participant
mojaiot
Founder