The Maldives’ first 24 hour Hackathon promotes talented Maldivian developers
05 Apr 2014, 5:48 PM
Lucy Lovell
The Maldives’ first ever Hackathon, organised by local not for profit Kickstart, has concluded today in Malé City Hall.
A Hackathon is an event that brings together web developers from the local community to create new software or applications. The Hackathon hopes to inspire participants to develop products that could have a high social impact, or ‘kickstart’ a viable business.
The 24 hour event – which has attracted 40 local developers – started on April 4 2014 at 4pm and concluded today at 4pm. Software developers have come together at the event to work on a variety of interesting and inspiring projects – competing with each other to win a set of prizes sponsored by numerous partners.
Starting in the mid to late 2000s, Hackathons have become significantly more widespread worldwide, being held as a means to quickly develop new software technologies, promote local software developers and to locate new areas for innovation and funding.
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