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The Build4SocialGood Hackhaton brings together developers and techies yearly from all over Africa to develop ideas and build targeted software products for solving sustainable development goals.

Social good is an action that defines some sort of benefit to the general public. Our continent; Africa is laden with a myriad of social good problem which Technology can help to mitigate. We’re looking at building these software which would be managed by the community. Techrity encourages you to #Build4SocialGood and for the #Community. These projects will be managed and open sourced by the community and Winners of the challenge will go ahead to enhance their MVP and solutions in the incubation programme.

Are you passionate about applying your skills for social good, but no funds to kickstart it? Participate in our #Build4SocialGood Hackathon and get a chance to fund your ideas/startup. Hackathon winners will have access to hub support to assist them in their unique innovations.

#Build4SocialGood Hackathon identify specific challenges for teams to build and provide solutions for social good problems.

Hackathon participants also get access to mentors to support and direct them during the hackathon phase.

Come join us, learn new skills, and build functioning prototypes to solve those challenges.

How to join our hackathon challenge

Call for team applications will be announced on the Techrity Build4SocialGood website. Teams will be selected based on merit and inclusivity.

Winners will go ahead to win the prize money and qualify for the incubation program.

Steps

Follow the steps below to register your team.

Step 1: Submit an Application

Visit https://techrity.org/register/hackathon to register your team.

Step 2: Receive a confirmation mail

The #Build4SocialGood team would send a mail outlining next steps.

Step 3: Join the Slack Channel

Prizes

Prizes will be announced in due course.

About Us

Techrity, is a non-profit social enterprise, a community of people contributing to advance humanity through their time, money and skills. We believe in the power of using technology for sustainable human capital advancement. We’re all about inspiring the youth to take up careers in tech, through our Mentorship and Kickstart programs, we are also committed to solving social good problems using tech through our Build4SocialGood program.

At Techrity, we believe your donates open doors of opportunities for everyone including the donor, receiver, this creates a circle of givers paying it forward for technology.

Your donation plants seeds of kindness in others, and this promotes a world of revolving kind-hearted people. Help learners get laptops and data to kickstart and make their journey in tech a success.

We encourage you to donate to fund any of our programmes as mentioned. Visit the Techrity Donation page to help someone kickstart their tech career today!.

Organizations, startups etc, can fund a hackhaton programmes and get their ideas tested and developed by our community.

To find out more about what we have in store for our partners, please fill the contact form and we will get back to you in no time.

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The future of tech is now

Our Kickstart focuses on the orientation, growth, and development of her beginners looking to take up Tech careers. With our Kickstart program, you get access to a mentor who guides you through your Tech journey, that is, you get automatic access to our free mentorship program. You also get an opportunity to be featured as a Techrity Top Learner on our blog and get a chance to impact the skills learned to others by joining our mentorship program.

Techrity Kickstarters get access to;

Data Support

Donate data or cash to support a Techrity kickstarter.

Laptop Support

Donate a laptop or fund a kickstarter

Mentorship Support

Our Kickstarters get access to a community of mentors to guide them through their learning journey.

Simple Steps to kickstart

Who gets selected?

When you register for the Kickstart program, you will be required to take a short assessment to determine your competency level and area of placement.

Techrity is transparent and will only attend to individuals who signs of dedication and willingness to be mentored.

What’s the selection process?

Fill the Kickstart registration form
Receive an invite link to the slack channel
Join the kickstart channel and take the foundation courses
Get the foundation certificate
Get connected to a mentor

Ready to start?

Apply to be a Kickstarter. Visit the Kickstart page.

About Us

At Techrity, we believe your donates open doors of opportunities for everyone including the donor, receiver, this creates a circle of givers paying it forward for technology.

Organizations, startups etc, can fund a hackhaton programmes and get their ideas tested and developed by our community.

To find out more about what we have in store for our partners, please fill the contact form and we will get back to you in no time.

Thank you!