AfricaHacktrip Hackathon In Tanzania

The africahacktrip consisted of a group of developers and designers from Europe, curious about the emerging tech hubs, they have been moving around east Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania  to meet , connect share and kickoff continuous exchange through the events they held in the different countries.

At the Africahacktrip Hackathon in Tanzania we happened to meet up with several great guys who really love tech, the event kicked off ataround 11:00am EAT with guys making up groups to work on the applications they had proposed later on, at the end of the day a number of applications were demoed, some of the applications demoed included, among others:

·         Mapping movements

AfirefoxOS app that visualizes your movements, then calculates burned calories

·         Education platform

An onlineplatform that provides educational learning content for students and teachers in schools

·         ICT in agriculture

Make information available, get around the middleman between farmers and clients

·         Personal Education Assistant

Offline capability for, timetable,contacts,easy notes taking and task management

·         Afyamap

Map all health initiatives in Tanzania

We had Mozilla’s presence at the Hackathon, with Mozillians like Arky,Mozilla's presence organizer who helped with starting up of a Mozilla community in Tanzania with lots of interest showed, Vicky and ash from Kenya and JB from Uganda who guided guys on how to develop FirefoxOS apps.

What I really loved about the trip is the great application ideas that came up and the team showed us that they are so willing to help us developers here in Africa with all the necessary support we need while developing the apps.

I really loved GitHub’s involvement in the Hackathon with lots of guys learning how to host their applications using GitHub

The highlight of the event  was the great ideas that were got from the hackathon,user groups coming up, the apps developed, the GitHub drink ups  and can’t forget the fun.

If I was told there would be another trip soon, I wouldn’t hesitate being part of it, it was an awesome time,Lots of thanks to the AfricaHackTrip team.

Website: https://africahacktrip.org/

Photos: https://www.flickr.com/groups/africahacktrip

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