Geekulcha Hackathon
The annual Geekulcha Hackathon,
with RS Components and sponsoring components, hardware and prizes, recently saw
more than 100 coders, developers and programmers take on each other in a
42-hour online contest.
This year’s winner was Trevor Morethe, who came up with an idea of digitalising street food vendors of South Africa with his Let Me Serve You (LMSY) mobile app. Morethe says that his application will provide a platform where consumers can order food and discover street food vendors in their surroundings.
“With my developed mobile app I
want to help street food vendors track orders, streamline their processes and
assist customers to save time when ordering food, as well as provide
information on nearby vendors,” he says. “This will assist these micro-businesses
and their customers step into the digital world.”
Second place went to DeepDoctor.AI,
a medical image classification app. Its developer, 16 year-old North West coder
Lemogang Matlou, recently won the North West leg of the Nemisa
datathon. He was also that hackathon’s youngest participant.
Team Just Dev (Mxolisi Ngcobo and
Andile Skosana) won third place for Account, a tool to hold politicians
accountable for election promises. With the motto “the Internet never
forgets”, the platform relies on user-generated recordings of rallies and
a WhatsApp chatbot for reporting service delivery problems.
More information on the Geekulcha Hackathon can be found here
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