Non-profit organisation eMentoring Africa is offering the youth an opportunity to showcase their ideas on how technology solutions based on mobile apps, databases and web portals can support the Big Four agenda through two upcoming hackathons in Nairobi.
Dubbed ‘Hack-the-Big-4,’ the mentorship forums will be held on 8 and 15 September 2018.
The Big Four agenda covers the areas of manufacturing, housing, agri-business, and healthcare are part of the government’s efforts towards promoting food security, ensuring affordable health care and housing, and creating jobs in the country.
The Hackthon
The hackathon is “an innovation and mentorship platform that seeks to nurture ideas and technology solutions developed by youth and which centre on tangible economic and social impacts in the Big Four agenda.”
Once the participants of the hackathons submit their ideas, the solutions will be presented to ICT industry experts from both the public and private sectors, investors, entrepreneurs and the Big Four agenda experts for “review, feedback, validation and elevation to the next level.”
Esther Muchiri ,Director eMentoring stated:
“In pursuance of the President’s Big 4 Agenda, the youth of this country have come out in full force to show that the Big 4 is a reality that can take the country to another level. eMentoring Africa, a leading mentorship organization, has organized the Hack-the-Big 4 event to prove that indeed Kenya’s youth have the capacity to use technology to demystify and translate the Big 4 Agenda into tools that improve the lives of Kenyans.”
