{"id":38,"date":"2020-08-31T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.techrity.website\/WordPress\/?p=38"},"modified":"2020-10-25T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T15:50:24","slug":"the-build4socialgood-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.techrity.org\/WordPress\/2020\/08\/31\/the-build4socialgood-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Build4SocialGood Hackathon Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Inspire. Coach. Build<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Build4SocialGood Hackathon identify specific challenges for teams to build and provide solutions for social good problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hackathon participants also get access to mentors to support and direct them during the hackathon phase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come join us, learn new skills, and build functioning prototypes to solve those challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to join our hackathon challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Call for team applications will be announced on the Techrity Build4SocialGood<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Follow the steps below to register your team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1: Submit an Application<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit https:\/\/techrity.org\/register\/hackathon<\/a> to register your team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 2: Receive a confirmation mail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The #Build4SocialGood team would send a mail outlining next steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 3: Join the Slack Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prizes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prizes will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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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\u2019re all about inspiring the youth to take up careers in tech, through our Mentorship<\/strong> and Kickstart<\/strong> programs, we are also committed to solving social good problems using tech through our Build4SocialGood<\/strong> program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> to help someone kickstart their tech career today!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizations, startups etc, can fund a hackhaton programmes and get their ideas tested and developed by our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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

Thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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