List of hackathons in Nairobi, Kenya in 2016

Interested in helping open up access to reliable energy for under-served populations? Sign up to participate in the Nairobi Energy Data Challenge. You'll collaborate on innovative solutions utilizing approaches such as the Internet of Things, off-grid energy access, and pay as you go technology. You'll work on creating solutions to the following core challenges: »Designing meaningful ways to help energy users by communicating with them about their energy use and payment patterns. »Designing IoT systems that work effectively to improve data collection and transmission for pay-as-you-go and off-grid energy service provision. »Using pay-as-you-go technology and data currently collected on energy users to design new ways to provide access to other essential services.

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Nairobi! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: » Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. » Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from work. » Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. » Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.

Hackathons are often focused only on the technical side of business. Expand your horizons with hackathon focused on legal training for your business! iHub will be teaming up with uWakili and m:lab East Africa to lecture and give advice on Founder Stock Agreements, an important part of any fledgling business with more than one owner.

Getting ready to launch a start-up? Wondering how to handle Founder stock? Come attend Founder Stock Agreements training, facilitated by John Reyes Freeman. John Reyes is a US and Hong Kong licensed attorney, versed in corporate and securities law and knowledgeable in startups, having been a founder and C-level staff for over 10 startups. Topics to be covered will include: »How to allocate stock between founders and early employees »Vesting provisions: periods and unvested stock »Co-sale provision »Right of first refusal »Founder Departures

Ladies! This one's for you! AkiraChix is hosting its 3rd all-female hackathon. This year’s hackathon will be focused on building solutions that foster Citizen engagement in matters of governance and security: -> Security: Physical, Food & Cyber -> Elections: Freedom of speech, Civic Education & Voter engagement

Come participate in the IOT & Health Training Hackathon! Participate, learn and build innovative prototypes involving Internet of Things in the health industry. The session involves training for beginners and an interactive session to build prototypes. Cool giveaways will be available and lunch will be provided.

John K. is organizing his first hackathon in a swimming pool !

This is AngelHack’s 9th Global Hackathon Series. The Challenge is Simple. AngelHack’s nonprofit arm, Code For A Cause, is challenging superhero coders to build a technology that will have a positive impact on the world, people, or environment. No matter your age or skill level, just come and create projects that are innovative, and have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale and get the chance to fly to Silicon Valley for the Annual Global Demo Day and participate in a week of extensive pitch training!

The Microst Build for Africa Hackathon is inviting all hardware developers, Cloud developers and software developers to come along and work on various technology platforms. The main goal is to make technologies made in Africa for Africa. There will be presentations from indusrtry professionals and on this topics.

Design to Transform is a one day challenge that helps Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to articulate their message on the Internet The design to transform hackathon designs professional websites for Community Based Organizations during a one day hackathon challenge. In Kenya, many of these organizations are yet to establish an impressive digital footprint. They have not been able to catch up with what the Internet is offering as far as publicity and visibility is concerned. An online presence will boost the reach of these organizations. Our inaugural event saw us complete and deliver six websites for the CBOs to help them connect donors and partners with worthy causes in need of support. The D2T project brought together individuals with different backgrounds who worked in teams to achieve the goal of the day. They learnt various platforms to use in Web Design and Development. This empowered them to transform their community through the use of technology. The next challenge is on March 19, 2016. Grab a ticket and join us in making a difference in the community. Are you an accountant, content developer, web developer, designer …Whatever skills you have you can use them to change your society. Come join us and have fun while making a difference. We look forward to seeing you. WHY ATTEND? The D2T event will bring together techies with generous hearts to a one day hackathon challenge. The primary goal of this initiative is to design professional websites for community based organizations to improve their visibility and boost their online presence. The team welcomes passionate people willing to learn website development and design and share their tech skills with charity. The D2T project will also train and build the capacity of individuals Web Design and Development. What is in it for you? Well quite a lot actually; Training by professionals Interact with designers Business opportunities and partnerships Positive social impact Certificate of participation Lunch and refreshments. Confirm your attendance  by sending the Ksh 500 to 0726205941. Email: info@design2transform.org website: www.design2transform.org