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9-12th June 2020
Online Covid-19 Crisis Hackathon
Do you have an idea that aims to help Afghanistan with the Covid-19 crisis?
Think about health, business, community, education & vulnerable populations.
Bring a team together to design and build your innovative idea in our 48-hour hackathon.
With people from all over Afghanistan coming together to hack together prototypes, you have the chance to win some amazing prizes and project support to take your idea to the next level.
Free internet will be provided to ensure you are online & connected to the event.
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Garage48 and Startupistan together with the support of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation, have gotten together to search for ideas that will help Afghanistan during & after the COVID-19 crisis!
Afghanistan has lived through decades of war and is bracing another deadly challenge, threatening the lives of millions. In a country, where community relations are strong, the authorities are struggling with forcing people to self-isolate. Also, not many can afford to stay at home for weeks, people need to keep on working, in order to provide the necessary food items for their families. The fragile healthcare system is even under bigger pressure than it was before the pandemic, struggling with the shortage of masks, hand-sanitizers, and ventilators. Online home-schooling is not really a solution in a country, where mobile data is a luxury to have, not to even mention computers or laptops.
From 9- 12th of June, we will host an online hackathon dedicated specifically to the challenges that Afghanistan is facing in the COVID-19 crisis
It is prime time to design, test, and launch innovative ideas that will either tackle the crisis or position Afghanistan in a softer place in the aftermath of the crisis!
The intent of this hackathon is to develop ideas that:
are prototype-able in 48-hours and which will help deal with COVID-19 and its aftermath
to find solutions to problems, specific to Afghanistan
Do not stop at anything. Think of the crazy approaches. Think of stuff that needs different approaches. Think of the problems that the COVID-19 crisis presents to you daily!
Think for a few days, jot down your best idea, get together a team, and join us for the hackathon.
How does it work
Think of an idea, that you would like to solve at the hackathon, put together a team or apply solo
The minimum number of participants in the team is one. The maximum number of team members is ten. While we let you sign up with your idea as an individual participant, once your idea gets chosen, you have to put together a team before being able to compete at the hackathon.
Rules for the team submission
Each team should ideally consist of:
- idea owner who will take the role of the team lead (coordinating, project management)
developer
designers (UX/UI)
an engineer or a field expert ( if an idea execution requires it, optional)
Registration is absolutely free! Come submit your idea and get a chance to develop it further with top-notch the mentors from Afghanistan, Estonia, Germany, and beyond!
We will look carefully through each application and will choose the top ideas that will enter the competition.
All the teams that enter the competition, will be announced on the 1st of June! You will receive an e-mail with complete instructions on how the hackathon will look like, but get ready for the craziest 48-hour online hack you’ve ever experienced! Please remember, if you applied individually, and your idea got accepted, you have to submit your team by the 8th of June.
All the selected participants of the hackathon will receive a free mobile data package upgrade from us, prior to the hackathon in order for you to freely hack away!
48-hour Online Hackathon (or an actually tiny bit longer this time around 9-12th of June)
If you want to support the event and JOIN IN AS A MENTOR, sign up here: https://garage48.typeform.com/to/X51duI
PRIZES
1st Prize - 100,000 Afn
2nd Prize - 75,000 Afn
3rd Prize - 50,000 Afn
TOP3 teams will also enter the 3 month-long incubation program that helps to develop the hackathon idea into real life and bring it to the market + 170 000 Afn worth of prizes while in the 3-month long incubation
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In these tough times for the entire world, let’s get together and solve this crisis as a community!