RHoK Pretoria 2017 #rhokpta

The School of Computing (SoC) in the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology (CSET) in collaboration with Geekulcha will be hosting a Hackathon event for two days: 9 & 10 September 2017. The main purpose of the event is to develop software to solve and address social problems or challenges in our society. The solutions will be developed using open source technologies.

For the first time, RHoKPta will feature an Open Data challenge to the participants. The challenge will be presented to the participants.

Challenge Question:

How do we use Open Data to enhance access to education and accelerate academic excellence?

Participants will need use available data to come up with story angles and solutions to the challenge’s question.