About NaijaHacks
NaijaHacks is Africa's biggest tech invention competitions.
Uchi Uchibeke founded NaijaHacks to provide an opportunity for young Nigerians to
showcase their skills and build solutions that make a difference for
them, their families, and the world.
As a tech invention competition and invention party, NaijaHacks
Hackathon participants have developed solutions to some of Nigeria's
most pressing challenges using the latest and greatest technologies.
One team created a solution to include the unbanked and underbanked
people financially. Another team developed an online social platform
to help connect entertainment investors to raw talents. Also, yet
another team built a virtual reality (VR) app to enable immersive
educational experiences.
NaijaHacks is the brainchild of
Uchi Uchibeke, a Nigerian-Canadian Engineer at SecureKey (Formally Shopify, IBM and the Royal Bank of Canada). Uchi
was previously at IBM, Shopify and RBC Royal Bank of Canada. He
started Naijahacks because of the impact that participating and
winning Hackathons at Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Waterloo, and many
more had on him and his career. He wanted to bring a similar
experience to young people in Nigeria to enable them to build
solutions that make themselves, their families, and the world better.
NaijaHacks 2019 kicks off online from December 7 - 14, 2019 and wraps
up with a Demo day and Award ceremony on December 17, 2019 at Zone
Tech Park Lagos, Nigeria with an international team of Mentors,
Speakers, and Judges .
The scope of NaijaHacks 2019 is:
- 1900 participants
- 300 teams
- 50% women (We got 27% last year)
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20 volunteers in planning team (20 participants from 2018 are
volunteering to help plan NaijaHacks 2019)
- Judges and mentors from 8 countries
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Three areas of focus: Sustainable Housing, Education, and
Employment generation
- 1-week remote development (December 7- 14, 2019)
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Demo day and award ceremony at Zone Tech Park Lagos, Nigeria