{"id":288234,"date":"2018-11-30T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288234"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:20:34","slug":"sita-to-host-a-48-hour-ndp2030-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/288234\/sita-to-host-a-48-hour-ndp2030-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"SITA to host a 48-hour #NDP2030 Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zaXRhLmNvLnph?source=301118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SITA<\/strong><\/a> will host 200 participants over a 48-hour <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uZHAyMDMwaGFja2F0aG9uLmdvdi56YS8g?source=301118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hackathon<\/a><\/strong> at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg between 30 November and 2 December.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uZHAyMDMwaGFja2F0aG9uLmdvdi56YS8g?source=301118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NDP2030 Hackathon<\/a><\/strong> campaign was launched earlier this year and called on all sectors and South Africans to come up with innovative and functioning ideas that aim to solve the socio-economic challenges that South Africa faces, as defined in our 2030 National Development Plan.<\/p>\n<p>From the submitted proposals, 200 selected participants will gather under one roof to finalise their proposed solutions across three main categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Code Jam<\/strong>: Innovative software solutions, including mobile applications and web-based solutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data-centric<\/strong>: Data insights, data mashups and data solutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internet of Things<\/strong>: Innovative IoT devices that can connect, infer and act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participants will be put into small teams, with a mix of skill sets, and mentorship will be provided by SITA as well as other industry partners. At the close of the 48-hour period, teams will present to a panel of judges who will select nine winning solutions across the three categories.<\/p>\n<p>These solutions will go into a process of solution realisation, demonstration and deployment with the purpose of creating real change in South Africa and accelerating the implementation of the NDP2030 outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>#NDP2030 Hackathon, presented by SITA<\/p>\n<p>30 November \u2013 2 December<\/p>\n<p>Sandton Convention Centre<\/p>\n<p>Cost: Free<\/p>\n<p>Website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uZHAyMDMwaGFja2F0aG9uLmdvdi56YS8g?source=301118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ndp2030hackathon.gov.za<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zaXRhLmNvLnph?source=301118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sita.co.za<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SITA will host 200 participants over a 48-hour hackathon at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg between 30 November and 2 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":254413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26,3351],"class_list":["post-288234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-headline","tag-sita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288240,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288234\/revisions\/288240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}