Africa Healthcare Hackathon Day 1 Roundup

Developing economies have gained a lot of attraction in the mainstream press within the last couple of years however few communities have leveraged their capital and talent to assist in the startup eco-system. The Kopfadeyemi Fellowship, a community for people with great ideas that can move things forward in Africa, has decided to be one of the few companies in London leading the charge with their Africa Healthcare Hackathon.

Over 50 people from across the UK have travelled to London to ideate on innovate ideas that can solve the following challenges:

Driving Innovation Ecosystems in Africa — helping WHO Develop scalable and sustainable infrastructure and frameworks to support healthcare innovations.

Improved programmatic adaptability — Developing strategies to improve the ‘adaptability’, ‘agility’ and ‘robustness’ for Save the Children to strength prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission services, HIV/AIDS prevention, care, support, and treatment services.

Management Services for Health — Developing technologies and/or solutions to help monitor the number of Artemisin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) distributed across the health facilities and used for treatment of patients to the actual number of ACTs supplied to the health facilities across the 13 states covered by the Global Fund Malaria.

Generating rural data — Developing innovative strategies to assist Survey54 in gathering essential data from emerging marketing such as Africa and The Middle East through the power of Mobile.

Addressing TB Adherence — Assisting AMREF Health Africa in the creation of intervention solutions that increase adherence to TB treatment in sub-Saharan Africa.

With a mix of business, technology, marketing and other stakeholders, the event got off to an amazing start. Participants are hungry to add value to the growing continent and a fun and creative 2 days is off to a great start.