Country's biggest hackathon to start from December 6th

Country's biggest hackathon to start from December 6th

1700+ programmers, 340 teams, 20 Lakhs Taka prize money and 36 hours of coding madness

The National Mobile Hackathon, to be held from 6th-7th December, is supposed to be the biggest Hackathon Bangladesh ever saw.  Organized by the ICT Division, this coding fiesta will be held at Diploma Engineers Institute near Kakrail. The event will be actually addressing ten specific local problems such as corruption, water transport safety, sexual harassment, cyclone center management, etc. using IT, particularly mobile technology.

So far 1,700 programmers, freelancers, students and app developers, who will be divided into 340 teams, have registered to participate in the contest. There are 49 professional companies who will also take part. 30 veteran IT specialists and programmers will be evaluating the projects. Each team has 5 members, comprising of coders and designers. The champions of this competition will be handsomely rewarded: they will be receiving Tk.20 Lakhs of innovation fund to materialize their proposed app. BD Ventures will also provide them with financial support. Aside from this, they will get several prizes from Microsoft Mobile, Symphony, Robi and Grameenphone. Better Stories Ltd. will help them to market their product for the span of one year.

The program will kick off with a workshop which will be conducted by ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak on ‘Vision 2021.’ This will be followed by a session of design sprint and paper prototype and the primary coding part will then begin. Different technical sessions will be held in between. At the closing ceremony of the next day at 4PM, presentations from participants will be showcased and the winners will be announced. Besides ICT Division, MCC Ltd, A2i BASIS, Symphony, Grameenphone, Robi, Sol Quest, Google Developer Group, Better Stories, BD Ventures Ltd, HiFi Public, Social Geeky Advantage are partners of this event.

The ICT division will help them to further work on their apps to being about a complete solution. They will receive Tk. 20 Lakh of innovation fund and to know more, check out this link: www.nationalappsbd.com

 

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