GEW Hackathon comes to a thrilling end
Over 210 applications were received with 48 teams selected to participate in 6 different challenge sectors. The prize money was combined whopping R1.2 million.
The 48-hour Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Hackathon came to a thrilling end last weekend. The initiative was an annual event that seeks to inspire and help entrepreneurs in coming up with solutions to help their communities.
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Over 210 applications were received with 48 teams selected to participate in 6 different challenge sectors. The prize money was combined whopping R1.2 million where each winner of a sector challenge would walk away with R200, 000 to help their start-ups.
on Sunday, the final day, the 6 winning teams were: @rtScience in the Over The Top Media category, Team Basket in the Financial Technology category, Everlectron for Smart Homes, Fantastic 4 in Gaming, Gwaf in the Internet Software Category, and Navario who won the Education Technology category.
‘As a gamer myself, being part of a team that came up with the winning gaming solution that will make better gaming for a lot of South Africans is a reward within itself. This hackathon has become the benefactor of eSports participation in South Africa. Can’t wait to deliver the final product for my fellow gamers to enjoy,” said winning gamer Mpho Kubheka.
The event was hosted by 22 On Sloane in partnership with Telkom FutureMakers.
“It was exciting to see the immense amount of talent and creativity that the teams had. The difference with this hackathon is that in addition to harnessing that creativity, the teams were either entrepreneurs or received entrepreneurial training to help them venture into entrepreneurship. The prize money is linked to them registering businesses and pursuing their ideas further,” said Mmathebe Zvobwo, Executive for Enterprise and Supplier Development (FutureMakers) at Telkom.
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