CivicHive Hack4Democracy Program 2025 for West Africa – YOA

Deadline: April 14, 2025

Applications are open for the CivicHive Hack4Democracy Program 2025. Hack4Democracy is an annual hackathon bringing collectively CivicTech innovators, activists, and organizations throughout West Africa to create slicing-edge digital options for democratic engagement. By leveraging expertise, members sort out challenges equivalent to voter apathy, electoral fraud, misinformation, and shrinking civic areas.

In the final twenty years, the West Africa area has skilled important political modifications in recent times, with rising calls for for higher transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement in democratic processes. While some progress has been made in democratic governance, challenges equivalent to voter apathy, navy incursion in democracy, electoral fraud, lack of entry to info, and restricted avenues for citizen participation persist.

Through the Hack4Democracy Hackathon, they’re bringing civic-tech leaders throughout the area, to design civic expertise prototypes targeted on democratic participation, human rights development, and good governance reform which might be scalable throughout the West Africa sub-area. This hackathon will present OPPORTUNITY for civictech innovators, activists, and civil society organizations to collaborate and develop digital options that allow residents to actively take part in democratic course of, resolution-making, and governance.

Benefits

• Fully funded logistics and lodging for collaborating organizations inside West Africa.
• Take off grants and technical assist to develop and launch merchandise.

Eligibility

• Open to civictech organizations with proof of idea, who’ve already constructed and examined their civictech answer inside West Africa.
• Applicants have to be residents or residents of one of many West African international locations:
  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cape Verde
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Liberia
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo

Application

The date for this system is May 19-20, 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Hack4Democracy.