Call for Proposals: UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking Women Hackathon 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 20, 2025

Submit proposals for the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking Women Hackathon 2025. UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking is wanting for 45 passionate younger ladies builders, (organised in groups of three) from Eastern and Southern Africa to take part of their third Annual Women’s Hackathon. The hackathon seeks to handle the hole in improvements supporting local weather change adaptation and mitigation, and the gender hole in software program growth in Africa. These are software program functions.

Theme: Innovate for local weather change adaptation and mitigation

Approach

The hackathon programme shall be in two components. The first part of the programme shall be performed just about the place the 15, 3-individual groups, competitively chosen, shall be guided by educational and industrial specialists to develop modern digital proof-of-ideas options tackling local weather change mitigation and adaptation challenges. Webinars on topical points shall even be mounted to impart related expertise and construct confidence among the many future ladies expertise leaders. The developed options shall present the groups with modern proof-of-ideas for them see search funding for additional growth and commercialisation. At the top of the digital programme, the groups shall pitch their options.

The high three groups shall be invited to take part in an in-individual 3-day hackathon, as a pre-occasion to the UbuntuNet Connect Conference 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe in October. The groups shall current their refined ideas as part of the convention programme, the place winners shall be introduced and feted. 

The in-individual UbuntuNet Alliance Women Hackathon shall be held on October 27-29, 2025, with all contributors additionally attending the UbuntuNet Connect Conference (October 30-31, 2025) below the theme “Resilient and Sustainable Research and Education Networks for the Future.”

Benefits

Participants will get the next advantages:

• Certificates of participation for all contributors
• Travel and lodging prices absolutely lined
• OPPORTUNITY to attend the UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 convention in Zimbabwe
• Possibility of internship alternatives with the UbuntuNet Alliance NRENs
• Linkage to the business
• Opportunity for Mentorship

Eligibility

• Open to feminine contributors.
• Pursing or in possession of a college diploma in Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or any associated area.
• Participants ought to be college students or latest graduates of no more than 5 years.
• Must be from and residing in one of many following nations within the UbuntuNet Alliance Region: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Congo, DR Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• Must not have participated in a earlier UbuntuNet Alliance ladies hackathon.

Selection Criteria

The ideas can be assessed primarily based on the next standards:

• Proposed concept solves an issue and matches inside the theme.
• The concept being proposed is modern.
• The crew has obligatory programming expertise to implement the proposed concept.
• Feasibility of the proposed concept.

Application

They invite idea proposals from groups from eligible nations. The idea observe ought to be 3-5 pages [font Times New Roman, size 12, single spacing], excluding the quilt web page. It ought to ideally include an introduction, a background (or relevance), proposed aims (resulting in growth of an ICT resolution), methodology (that’s primarily based on the software program growth lifecycle and accommodates obligatory applied sciences), programming expertise of crew members, earlier expertise, hyperlinks to developed work, training stage, 12 months of commencement (previous or future). The cowl web page ought to have the subject and crew member particulars (names and e mail handle, telephone quantity).

Click here to submit the Concept Note

For extra info, go to UbuntuNet Alliance Women Hackathon.