Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons
The paper describes the concept of INSPIRE Kampala virtual hackathons, with the main focus to build and strengthen relationships between several European Union (EU) projects and African communities that started in 2019 with the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon. The main focus is exploring a new model for c...
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author | Karel Charvat Bente Lilja Bye Hana Kubickova Foteini Zampati Tuula Löytty Kizito Odhiambo Kiringai Kamau Suchith Anand Paul Kasoma Maximilien Houël Elias Cherenet Akaninyene Obot Felix Kariuki Antoine Kantiza Ronald Ssembajwe Samuel Njogo Winnie Kamau |
author_facet | Karel Charvat Bente Lilja Bye Hana Kubickova Foteini Zampati Tuula Löytty Kizito Odhiambo Kiringai Kamau Suchith Anand Paul Kasoma Maximilien Houël Elias Cherenet Akaninyene Obot Felix Kariuki Antoine Kantiza Ronald Ssembajwe Samuel Njogo Winnie Kamau |
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description | The paper describes the concept of INSPIRE Kampala virtual hackathons, with the main focus to build and strengthen relationships between several European Union (EU) projects and African communities that started in 2019 with the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon. The main focus is exploring a new model for capacity building based on virtual hackathons as an excellent opportunity for bringing together people from different work environments, culture and disciplinary backgrounds. This paper is describing experience and lessons learned from the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon. INSPIRE Hackathons have evolved over a five year period since it started and during this period we developed a model of fully virtual Hackathons, which we recognise as optimal for Africa. The paper describes all stages of Hackathon building: definition of themes, selection of mentors, development, webinars as tools for sharing experience, final presentation, selection of winners and awarding ceremony. As important we consider also planning other actions, because we don’t see INSPIRE Hackathon as an event, but as a continuous process. Demonstration part of paper describes the lessons learnt from the winning challenge: Desert Locus Monitoring. The description of all phases demonstrate Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon approach. On the basis of experience we defined strategy for the future, how to continue and successfully extend such a model in Africa. |
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spelling | doaj.art-f03ee353ed8347b387770ce8d3b7abc32022-12-21T20:15:48ZengUbiquity PressData Science Journal1683-14702021-07-0120110.5334/dsj-2021-023831Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through HackathonsKarel Charvat0Bente Lilja Bye1Hana Kubickova2Foteini Zampati3Tuula Löytty4Kizito Odhiambo5Kiringai Kamau6Suchith Anand7Paul Kasoma8Maximilien Houël9Elias Cherenet10Akaninyene Obot11Felix Kariuki12Antoine Kantiza13Ronald Ssembajwe14Samuel Njogo15Winnie Kamau16Plan4all/WirelessInfoPlan4all/BLBPlan4all/WirelessInfoGODAN/KTBLSmart & Lean Hub OyAgriBORAGODANGODANYouths in Technology & DevelopmentSistema GmbHHaramaya UniversityNnamdi Azikiwe University, AwkaProgramme for Capacity Development in Africa (P4CDA), NairobiAKANTIZA CONSULTNaCORIIndependent Scholar, EldoretAssociation of Freelance Journalists and Data JournalistThe paper describes the concept of INSPIRE Kampala virtual hackathons, with the main focus to build and strengthen relationships between several European Union (EU) projects and African communities that started in 2019 with the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon. The main focus is exploring a new model for capacity building based on virtual hackathons as an excellent opportunity for bringing together people from different work environments, culture and disciplinary backgrounds. This paper is describing experience and lessons learned from the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon. INSPIRE Hackathons have evolved over a five year period since it started and during this period we developed a model of fully virtual Hackathons, which we recognise as optimal for Africa. The paper describes all stages of Hackathon building: definition of themes, selection of mentors, development, webinars as tools for sharing experience, final presentation, selection of winners and awarding ceremony. As important we consider also planning other actions, because we don’t see INSPIRE Hackathon as an event, but as a continuous process. Demonstration part of paper describes the lessons learnt from the winning challenge: Desert Locus Monitoring. The description of all phases demonstrate Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon approach. On the basis of experience we defined strategy for the future, how to continue and successfully extend such a model in Africa.https://datascience.codata.org/articles/1244kampala inspire hackathonsustainable agricultureearth observationemerging practicesdesert locustsdg2open datacapacity development |
spellingShingle | Karel Charvat Bente Lilja Bye Hana Kubickova Foteini Zampati Tuula Löytty Kizito Odhiambo Kiringai Kamau Suchith Anand Paul Kasoma Maximilien Houël Elias Cherenet Akaninyene Obot Felix Kariuki Antoine Kantiza Ronald Ssembajwe Samuel Njogo Winnie Kamau Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons Data Science Journal kampala inspire hackathon sustainable agriculture earth observation emerging practices desert locust sdg2 open data capacity development |
title | Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons |
title_full | Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons |
title_fullStr | Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons |
title_full_unstemmed | Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons |
title_short | Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons |
title_sort | capacity development and collaboration for sustainable african agriculture amplification of impact through hackathons |
topic | kampala inspire hackathon sustainable agriculture earth observation emerging practices desert locust sdg2 open data capacity development |
url | https://datascience.codata.org/articles/1244 |
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