#IgniteHack

What a Hackathon is: A marathon of hacking (ethically) to solve social, business and/or economical challenges. Ideally, no one goes home and everyone works non-stop to build a tech/digital solution.

Young innovators will work in teams with government digital ambassadors and industry mentors to develop ideas and prototypes for improving service delivery.

The Ignite Hackathon will take place on 28 - 30 September as part of the Service Delivery month (see build-up activities below) at the University of Johannesburg Kingsway Campus, Auckland Park.

The 2018 Theme: Youth Spark - Igniting Youth Action Towards Improved Service Delivery.

* If you were a decision maker in Government for 1 weekend, what would you build to enhance service delivery?

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Judging Criteria

We will have two rounds of judging on Sunday 30 September.

In the first round, Top 10 winners where all the teams present.

In the second round top 3 winners will be selected after presentations by the Top 10 teams.

The evaluation criteria will be the same for both rounds of presentations:

Novelty: how new or creative is the idea or method you used
Service delivery impact: what impact can it have on one of the focus areas
Feasibility: how easily can it be implemented, at what cost and timeline
Safety: how does the solution address information privacy and security

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Public Service Delivery

Build-up activities to the Hackathon

* Medical Hackathon in Limpopo, 17 - 18 August 2018

* Northern Cape Provincial Hackathon in De Aar

* OpenCampus on Smart Citizenship:

- Sol Plaatje University

- Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve

- Pearson Institute of Higher Education

- Tshwane University of Technology Emalahleni

- University of Mpumalanga

Eligibility

All the teams will be allocated a mentor to work with during the weekend of the Hackathon.

You need to have registered to take part in the Hackathon
Only 200 participants (coders, designers, activists, entrepreneurs, innovators) for the Hackathon.

NB: Young government ambassadors will be available for each focus area, to help teams understand the challenges in that area and possible solutions.

Requirements

This is a user hackathon aimed at improving service delivery in the focus areas. and your team must therefore build solutions that meet the needs of civil servants, to help them do their jobs, or citizens, to improve their own lives.

Types of solutions: Mobile Apps, Websites, IoT/Electronic Systems, Desktop Applications, Data Visualizations or other (inquire with the organisers for more information or project suggestions).

Powerpoint presentations must be submitted by 12:00 on Sunday through the Hackathon Submission page.

Things to cover on the Powerpoint presentation: