The United Nations has promised to award N1 million and a three months community membership at the Civic Innovation Lab (CIL) to any Nigerian winning team in its recently launched hacking challenge tagged: Hackathon in Bonn, Germany.
The money, according to UN will be used to develop a tool for the rollout of the survey across the country and around the world, adding that the United Nations is interested in Nigeria’s best software skills that would contribute to citizens’ engagement with the SDGs and bring the voices of Nigerians to the government and the UN.
“It is very exciting to bring this programme to Nigeria for the first time and we are convinced the results will have a tremendous impact locally and globally. We also believe it will help to solve the most important challenges confronting the country at the moment,” Director of the UN SDG Action Campaign, Mitchell Toomey, said in a statement.
The Hackathon Challenge is a 3-day event, which will be held from February 5-7, 2018 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. It is hoped to bring together top innovative minds to design an application to enable a more efficient roll out of the My World survey across the country.