In his remarks at the Hackathon, the Director General of NITDA, Mr. Kashimu Inuwa Abdullahi, said the innovative ideas would assist in the realisation of the objectives of the digital transformation agenda of the government.
“The initiative relates to three of the pillars of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) of the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy.
“The relevant pillars are digital innovation and entrepreneurship, promote indigenous content, emerging technologies and digital transformation on the part of the NDEPS while on the part of SRAP are digital services development and promotion, indigenous content development and adaptation and digital society and emerging technologies,” said Abdullahi, who was represented by Mr. Oladeji Olayemi.
The Regional Director, Ford Foundation (West Africa Office), Dr. Chichi Aniagolu Okoye, expressed the Foundation’s excitement with the Hackathon idea because of its importance to the fight against Corruption in the country.
She commended the ICPC for initiating the project and added that the Commission had rebuilt her confidence in the government’s ability.
She congratulated the participants for their innovative ideas.
The highlight of the programme was the presentation of the demo hacking solutions as a digital answer to diminishing corruption in school feeding programmes by seven innovators.
The young innovators were tasked to come up with clearly defined ideas and prototype solutions to checkmate IFFs with emphasis on leveraging emerging technologies.
Three winners emerged after the demo and received various sums of cash prizes.
The winners include second runner up, Expose Solution; first runner up, IFFMER, and the winner, E-procure.
Owasanoye and Dr. Aniagolu presented cash prizes of N500,000, N1 million and N1.5 million to the representatives of Expose Solution, IFFMER and E-procure, respectively, a statement by the commission said.
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