Feb 28, 2024, 5:30 AM – 4:00 PM (UTC)
Africa's Talking Women in Tech Community
Join us at our open hackathon every last Wednesday of the month. Build with us, present feature requests, give feedback, or contribute to our open-source APIs and SDKs. THEME: Building for Social Good Get your ticket, let us exchange knowledge, and best practices, submit feature requests, and innovate. Tell a sister to tell a sister. #WomenInTech
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Overview:
The Africa's Talking Women in Tech Hackathon: Building for Social Good is an exciting opportunity for tech enthusiasts to come together and leverage the power of innovative solutions. This hackathon challenges participants to transform traditional 2G technology, including SMS, USSD, Airtime, and Voice services, using Africa's Talking APIs. The goal is to create impactful solutions for various social problems faced in society. Join us for a collaborative and empowering experience that combines technology, creativity, and social responsibility.
Why Attend?
Embark on a journey where innovation intersects with empowerment, and technology acts as a catalyst for positive change. In a time of boundless possibilities, our hackathon stands as a groundbreaking event, inviting tech enthusiasts, innovators, and visionaries to unite and pave the way for revolutionizing social impact through technology. Attendees of this hackathon aren't mere observers; they are active contributors to a mission that seeks to shape the future of social good in Africa.
At this hackathon, participants will craft ingenious solutions that elevate user interactions, leveraging the power of Africa's Talking, the leading communication platform on the continent. Our versatile APIs, spanning SMS, USSD, Voice, and Airtime, empower you to build transformative projects. If your passion aligns with technology and social impact, this event provides a unique opportunity to be part of a movement dedicated to creating solutions and opportunities for a brighter future in Africa. Join us, and together, let's code a better tomorrow.
Key Focus Areas:
Target Attendees:
These diverse groups of attendees will bring a range of skills, perspectives, and ideas to the hackathon, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment for innovation.
All developers, from all fields, are welcome for the hackathon.
What to Expect as an Attendee:
Solution Criteria:
Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)
THEME: Building for Social Good
The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:
More exclusive prizes and giveaways to attendees.
Contribute to open-source.
Agenda:
1. Introductions
2. Overview
3. Ideation
4. Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo
5. Demonstration and Wrap-up
Note: Carry a laptop
Opportunities:
Submit your Idea:
Join our community channels:
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Africa's Talking powers communications solutions across Africa with simplified access to telco infrastructure, developers use our powerful SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime and Data, and Payments APIs to bring their ideas to life, as they build and sustain scalable businesses.
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.
Everyone is welcome!
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AT WIT Kenya Community Lead
Africa's Talking
Developer Relations, WIT Lead
Africa's Talking
Software Engineer | Global Women In Tech Community Lead
AT WIT Kenya Community Lead
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
5:30 AM – 4:00 PM (UTC)
Introduction |
Overview and Ideation |
Hands-on Hacking |
Lunch |
Hands-on Hacking |
Demonstration and Wrap-up |
Africa's Talking
Software Engineer | Global Women In Tech Community Lead
Africa's Talking
Developer Relations, WIT Lead
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