Background of the HACKATHON

This initiative seeks to identify ICT skills available in the province and allow for those skills to be put into use as technologies to help address challenges faced by Eastern Cape society, individuals, businesses, as well as government.

With the current state of ICT adoption in the province, the Eastern Cape faces a risk of high unemployment rate in the future. Advancing the adoption of ICT in the province is one of the ways in which we can converge current activities to benefit youth in a 4IR world.

INVITATION TO JOIN

The East London Industrial Development Zone SOC Ltd Science and Technology Park (ELIDZ STP) invites budding tech wizards, based in the Eastern Cape to take part in the ICT Hackathon Challenge. The hackathon will be hosted from:

25 – 27 March 2022

This ICT Hackathon Challenge is a provincial-wide hackathon in partnership with Eastern Cape institutions of higher learning, incubators, and government.

As part of this hackathon, we are bringing knowledge workshops on critical 4IR initiatives, e.g., Python programming, Design thinking, coding, and more.

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INFORMATION PACK

PRE-WORKSHOPS

Virtual Information Sessions

The virtual knowledge sessions will help entrants to know the following:

  • What a hackathon is,
  • What to expect in a hackathon and how to win it.

The virtual information sessions will be hosted on 10, 17 and 22 March 2022.

Pre-hacking Workshop

Pre-hacking workshop will be hosted on 25 March 2022.

Master Classes

  • Programming using Python
  • Design thinking
  • Cybersecurity
  • Coding

PRIZES

  • There will be first, second, and third place winners.
  • The prize winners will go away with the following:
  • Prize money
    • The prize cannot be transferred and will only be handed over to the Winning Team.
    • The prize cannot be exchanged for any prize other than the prize offered in this competition.
    • Total prize money will be paid to the team’s business account, this means that all winning team members will have to open a joint bank account.

Additional prizes:

  • 12 months sponsored incubation and acceleration towards further development of the overall main winners’ solution (Prototype Development).
  • Opportunity for market access and linkages.
  • The winners will be required to attend the prize-giving ceremony at the ELIDZ.

THEME

The theme/challenge will be disclosed three days before the hackathon.

VENUE

There will be six physical hacking stations connected virtually across the Eastern Cape, these stations are as follows:

  • East London –ELIDZ STP
  • Mthatha – Walter Sisulu University
  • Alice – University of Fort Hare
  • Makhanda – Rhodes University
  • Gqeberha – Propella Business Incubator
  • Queenstown – Walter Sisulu University

REGISTRATION

Registration must be done online by signing up the form on the link below:

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

ENTRIES CLOSE ON SUNDAY, 20 March 2022 @ 23h59

Please forward any enquiries to sivuyile@elidz.co.za