Opportunity Alert: US Embassy, CampusLabs, University of Ibadan partner on Disability Hackathon; Over #1 Million Naira to be Won
The Public Affairs Small Grants
Programme of the US Embassy Lagos is sponsoring a disability hackathon through
a grant awarded to Mandela Washington
Fellow, is sponsoring which will be hosted by CampusLabs in the University of Ibadan. CampusLabs is a social
enterprise dedicated to building innovative spaces and programmes that
encourage entrepreneurial thinking and launching of ideas on University
campuses.
CampusLabs
is facilitating the disability hackathon where design thinking will be used to
create and proffer innovative solutions to problems faced by the People Living
With Disabilities (PLWD) at the University of Ibadan. Through CampusLabs, a milestone is being
achieved in disability inclusion in Nigeria as over 100 students on the
University of Ibadan campus, working in teams will spend 3 days hacking
solutions for improved systems, services, and products for persons with
disabilities. It aims to use the design thinking process to create innovative
solutions that promote inclusion for people living with disabilities in the
University of Ibadan.
Running from the 12th to 18th of April, 2019, it
promises to create an opportunity where selected teams are trained on 21st
century skills such as design thinking,
critical thinking, problem solving and leadership, and they are able to use
this knowledge to create innovative solutions that would be presented to the
team of judges.
The winning teams get a prize of 1
million Naira, to run an actual pilot. The top 3 teams with solutions best
suiting the challenges the PLWD community are facing, would undergo an
incubation period of about six (6) months where they would further develop
their solutions into a minimum viable product. Students can register by
clicking hack for disability
● Call
for entries: 18th March 2019
● Application
deadline: 2nd April 2019
All applicants will receive a
notification by the 5th of April, 2019.
`Applications should be submitted by team leaders on behalf of their teams.
For more information, visit here
For enquiries,
contact Grace via hello@campuslabs.xyz
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