BTNG Hackathon 2019
Theme: Curbing the Effects of Brain-drain in Emerging Economies
When you mention —‘Brain-drain’ — arguably, everyone knows what you’re talking about.
The term has become a favourite (if heated) conversation starter in many diaspora circles. However, the effects of brain-drain are harder to decipher. For example, when doctors leave a country en masse, a few of them later return with demonstrable, better skills and experience. Most of them remit money back home via family members, friends and participation in projects. What’s the net effect of this migration? You can extrapolate this line of thought to almost any profession.
What’s not in doubt is that the pace of highly educated people leaving their home countries for “greener pastures” is not slowing down, any time soon.
Into this gap, steps BTNG Hackathon 2019 with the theme; Curbing the Effects of Brain-drain in Emerging Economies. With support from Microsoft, we are looking to the following areas as focus points:
Focal Points:
Using Nigeria as a case-study, this hackathon will center on four key areas: Finance, Health, Agriculture and Education. We have also raised some questions to be addressed:
1. Finance — How can we leverage remittance opportunities for development? Can we bridge the funding and investment gap by introducing viable, safe and trusted investment opportunities in Nigeria and other emerging economies to the UK using technology?
2. Health — In a pool by NOIPolls, over half of the 72,000 doctors registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) work in the diaspora. How can technology help make their skill relevant in Nigeria?
3. Education — How can diasporans in emerging economies facilitate education in their home countries using technology?
4. Agriculture — How can the diaspora help create more opportunities in this area?
If you’re excited as we are; then get your FREE tickets to be a part of BTNG Hackathon 2019. Full event details are as follows:
Tickets: Get your FREE Tickets here
Date And Time: Sat, 3 Aug 2019, 09:30 — Sun, 4 Aug 2019, 17:00 BST
Location: The Microsoft Reactor London, 70 Wilson St, Finsbury, London, EC2A 2DB
We want design thinkers, developers, UI/UX pros, economists, business and political leaders, and enthusiasts to work together over 2 days and come up with practical solutions that address this modern-day problem.
Techies and non-techies; everyone is invited. Look forward to hacking with you.
Cheers,
BTNG team
