List of hackathons in South Africa in 2016

Coders, designers, other creative people! Want to showcase your development skills and compete against like-minded individuals in the Johannesburg area? Mann Made Media invites you to sign up and participate in their Hackathon. Bring your own team, or make up a team with other participants. So come to Sandton and show your best stuff as you collaborate and compete to win a R5,000 prize!

Citizen hackers in Ekurhuleni! Come and help solve some of the Metro’s challenges. Sign up for Hack Ekurhuleni. The theme for this edition of the Ekurhuleni Municipality Hackathon is A Digitally Connected City, centred on the Internet of Things and Analytics. Participate in a team to address one of the follwoing business challenges that the Metro faces: »Responsive Cities Challenge »Intelligent Analytics for the City »Human Settlement Application Monitor »Expansion of LEAP Application »Department Works »Cloning of existing Smart solutions

Fintech and blockchain hackers! Come and help build something brand new, disruptive and radical that might change the insurance landscape forever…and win some prizes! Come and participate in the SANTAM Blockchain Hackathon and create Technology for the Insurance of Tomorrow! Mentors and specialists will be in attendance, so you don’t necessarily need any experience in Blockchain or crypto-currencies to participate.

The Department of Economic Development and Tourism in collaboration with Geekulcha will once again be hosting their annual provincial hackthon, NCDevHack 2016. The goal of NCDevHack 2016 is to develop more entrepreneurship in the province, along with a focus on diversity and youth skills development.

Women coders! Come and participate in the 3rd annual GirlCode hackathon -- 30 hours of non-stop programming. The hackathon is open to all females, who will work collaboratively to create a website, game, or mobile app that addresses a selected real world challenge. No prior programming experience is required and registration is free. You can participate in teams of minimum 3 and maximum 6. So come along...be creative...and build cool products! Show the way for more women to join the technology industry.

Techies, particularly programmers, designers, and others are invited to participate in the RHoK Pretoria Hackathon to create solutions to pressing issues in society. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Pretoria is a part of a global community of technologists and change-makers who are 'hacking for good'.

The Square kilometer Array (SKA) Africa project's aim is to change humanity and life as we know it. With this hackathon will provide the SKA Knowledge for you to search for uses of the data that will result and realise socio-economic value for the people of South Africa.

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, UX designers, entrepreneurs, and industry insiders in and around South Africa! Participate in Unearthed Cape Town 2016, a 54-hour open innovation hackathon that is focused on the global resources sector. Come with a team of 3-4 like-minded individuals, or join a team at the event. Collaborate and compete to design and develop prototype technology solutions to a resource challenge posed by a leading industry player such as Anglo American. You'll have the opportunity to work on real industry data, as well as data from government partners, and compete for your share of a cash prize pool. Check out practical hackathon advicefor Unearthed Cape Town 2016 participants!