iDEA Nigeria has partnered with The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) to put together a hackathon that will be hosted at iDEA Lagos Center on September 18th – September 20th – Friday Sept. 18th: 1pm – 4pm to Sunday Sept. 20th: 2.30pm – 6pm
Agenda:
Hackathon Day One – Friday, 18th September 2015
1:00 pm – Registration
2:00 pm – Welcome from Principals
- Welcome & Opening Keynote
- USPF Overview of Citizens’ “Pain Points” – USPF
3:00 pm – Team creation
4:00 pm – Hackathon Starts
7:00 pm – Dinner
Hackathon Day Three – Sunday, 20th September 2015
2.30pm – Meet & greet (with USPF, NCC, iDEA, Judges, Coaches, Press ) + lunch
4:00 pm – Pitches and demos
5:30 pm – Judging
5:45 pm – Winners declared
6:00 pm – Close
The USPF carried out a study and identified 207 geographical clusters with an estimated 36.8 million people all over Nigeria who have little or no access to telecommunication services including telephony, Internet and other ICT services. The study outcome (Clusters of ICT Gap) provides an opportunity for innovative Nigerians to create sustainable solutions that would drive equitable ICT access for all.
The Hackathon
USPF is calling out to brilliant software developers, data scientists, UX designers, ICT experts, engineers, strategists, public policy experts and students to get involved and solve this underlying ICT problem within 48 hours by building fully working prototypes of their solutions following specific technical guidelines.
Selected winners with outstanding solutions stand a chance to win amazing prizes.
What teams will be cracking
- Any solution or technology that could extend telecoms services and connectivity into previously unreached areas in Nigeria.
- Visualisation & Natural Language Interface software for the access gap data and other large data sets. Spatial data infrastructure.
- Decision support and network-optimisation software that help Telecom carriers, and other companies to plan their expansion
- Prototype of a web-‐based data marketplace that allows for natural language search and easy visualization of data (sponsored by iDEA. Special Prize)
- Business models that can bring commercial viability to existing USPF pilot projects, and other rural connectivity projects.
Prototypes should be relevant to various economic sectors, especially, education, health, agriculture, entertainment and infrastructure.
Prizes
1st prize – N1 million naira + acceptance into incubation program
2nd prize – N750, 000 naira + acceptance into incubation program
3rd prize – N500, 000 naira + acceptance into incubation program
The prizes, disbursed by iDEA’s incubation programme on behalf of USPF, will enable startups continue developing their prototypes towards a full launch.
Applications are now closed for the Hackathon