Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 03:29 pm
The EmergeOndo Innovation in Governance Hackathon has announced Team Gadges, Team Psyche, Team FarmCred and Team Dunalinks as the winners in its four thematic areas, namely; renewable energy, education, agricultural accessibility, and business linkages respectively.
The EmergeOndo Innovation in Governance Hackathon took place over a three-day period from December 6th-8th, 2018 within the three innovation hubs located in Akure, Ondo State — Akure Tech Hub, Curators Hub and Premier Hub Innovation Center.
Team Gadges emerged the winner in the renewable energy category, receiving $1,000 with their solution, which is to provide access to affordable solar solutions.
Team Psyche emerged the winner in the education category receiving $1,000 with their solution, which is a device to monitor students’ psychological state as it directly correlates to academic performance.
Team FarmCred emerged the winner in the agricultural accessibility category, receiving $1,000 with their solution, which is an application that improves access to agri-finance by creating credit profiles for smallholder farmers.
Team Dunalinks emerged the winner in the business linkages category, receiving $1,000 with their solution designed to link small scale technicians with contractors for better jobs and growth opportunities.
Other winning teams receiving a $250 prize include: Team FarmCred as the team with the highest score in Social Impact; Team Gadease as the team with the highest score in the innovative use of technology; Team FarmSense as the team with the best pitch, while Team Podra won the award of team with highest overall score in the semi-final pitch.
All team prizes were sponsored by Serve Consulting, with a further commitment to support the teams through the incubation phase for their ideas as well as take them through a design thinking workshop processes to ensure that solutions developed fit the problem definitions across the focus thematic areas.
The EmergeOndo Innovation in Governance Hackathon hosted an array of over 220 Nigerian software developers, programmers, data specialists, designers, agricultural experts, education experts, policy experts, as well as business and sales professionals who were distributed into 28 teams.
According to the Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu:
“The Ondo State Government is committed to supporting activities that drive growth, promote efficiency, target our people and most importantly foster job creation.
We have made it a priority in the second half of our administration to bring into focus our SMEs especially those doing innovative projects that will help move the State to one of self sustainability and facilitate our moving away from the status quo.
We congratulate all winners and are looking forward to supporting their growth and development.”
The EmergeOndo Innovation in Governance Hackathon was born out of a unique partnership between the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Make-IT in Africa program and the Ondo State Government.
