Invest in Africa though its Technology Internship program is hosting this virtual hackathon to encourage kenyan youth (graduates and students) to use their unique skills to build solutions that will empower small and medium size business (SMEs) to improve their access to markets, skills and finance. The objective of the program is also to increase employability of these today leaders.

Eligibility

The Hackathon IS open to: 

  • Graduates and/or final year college students (“Eligible Individuals”);

  • Teams of Eligible Individuals (“Teams”);

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Requirements

Submissions to the hackathon must meet the following requirements:

  • Include access to your Project and meets the above Project Requirements.
  • Include a text description that should explain the features and functionality of your Project.
  • Be the original work of the submitter, be solely owned by the submitter, and not violate the IP rights of any other person or entity.
  • Multiple Submissions: An Entrant may submit more than one Submission, however, each submission must be unique and substantially different from each of the Entrant’s other Submissions, as determined by the Sponsor.

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Prizes

Winner

Internship at Invest in Africa to work on their hack and other cool stuff.

Paid for online dev course.

Runners Up (1)

Internship at Invest in Africa to work on their hack and other cool stuff.

Runners Up (2)

Internship at Invest in Africa to work on their hack and other cool stuff

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judging Criteria

  • Scalability (10%)
    The quality of the development of your app, it's potential to scale easily for many users, speed and responsiveness, ease of maintenance, and expansion.
  • Creative (10%)
    How creative and unique your idea is, how can the idea open new and exciting ways to use biasharanow.com?
  • Craftsmanship (40%)
    The user experience your app provides, the UI/UX quality
  • Impact (40%)
    How big of an impact will your app have for businesses and users that will use it, how substantial and meaningful is the problem this app solves, how much will it improve the life and work of biasharanow.com users, how many users will it be relevant for?

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