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HACKATHON CREATIV
“For the production of local kits against COVID-19, and living in a post-COVID world, innovative educational products and produts that facilitate communal development” http://hack237promud.strikingly.com
Hôtel Prince de Galles - Akwa Douala
Save the date From June 16th to 18th, 2021 AT ACTIVSPACES DOUALA !

The main objective of this activity is to identify the best innovative start-ups to tender for the capacity building of MakerSpaces supported by PROMUD following by the production of locally prototyped innovative kits against COVID-19 pandemic, innovative educational kits and innovative kits for rural development.

At the end of the hackathon it is expected that at least 03 Start-ups working on the design and production of innovative kits against pandemics such as COVID-19 and for educational purposes are jointly identified by PROMUD, MINDDEVEL, MINPOSTEL and ActivSpaces.

The step after the hackathon is to lunch a restrictive call for tenders to select one among the identified start up (according to GIZ standards) to porotype and produce COVID and educational kits as part of capacity building process of makerspaces established with the support of PROMUD.

Introduction to Hackathon Creative
http://bit.ly/hack237promud
The Support Program for Municipal Development (PROMUD) is an initiative of the German-Cameroon Cooperation. It is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), under the supervision of the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development (MINDDEVEL). Its objective is to support partner communes so that they can better invest in their roles for local development in partnership with state actors, civil society, and the private sector.
As part of the implementation of the second phase of PROMUD, its field of intervention dedicated to the implementation of innovative ICT solutions in communities, especially in rural areas (Smart Communities), will continue to support the creation of “Makerspaces” in telecentres or multimedia centres within partner municipalities. The aim is to stimulate creative and innovative collaborative approaches for local crafts people, electronic thinkers, young thinkers, and the community members in general to design, model and prototype objects that meet the ecological, social, and economic needs of their locality. Considering the concentration of such collaborative spaces in urban areas, strengthening the rural-urban collaboration is one of key element to foster the success of this initiative to support local development with local developed solutions.
The context of the global COVID pandemic has made clear the importance to have local response to face or attenuate effects of problems affecting local population.
It is in this line that this creative hackathon activity has been initiated to encourage and support local ideation and manufacturing, with the theme of creating objects in response to the COVID pandemic and to support the educational sector in rural areas as well as rural development in large.
Thank you to THE ORANGE DIGITAL CENTER TO WELCOME US
L'Orange Digital Center est un concept qui consolide dans un même lieu, l’ensemble des programmes allant de la formation en passant par l’accompagnement, jusqu’à l’accélération des start-up et l’investissement dans ces dernières. Ceci dans le but de créer un écosystème autour de l’innovation.
Wourilab, le Fablab d’Orange Digital Center
RESSOURCES
Some of the softwares you may download for a better preparation
Solidworks, Sketchup, Scratch, Autocad, Fusion360, Blender…
ManLab
- Kit éducatif (kit de géographie : carte administrative du Cameroun en puzzle) Objectif : il s’agira de modéliser en 2D la carte du Cameroun, la subdiviser suivant les frontières de ses 58 départements, procéder à la découpe laser ainsi que la gravure et peinture des dits départements sur acrylique.
- Kit covid (visière médicale) Objectif : il s’agira de concevoir et réaliser deux modèles de protection faciale à l’aide d’une découpeuse laser et d’une imprimante 3D

SYMA Enterprise
Breaking period limits and period poverty in the rural communities of Cameroon
Serviettes hygiéniques réutilisables
SAMARITAN
There are a lot of people who are in need of things which others have in surplus. Project samaritan is a platform to help connect those who need these items with those who have. Items include food, clothes, shoes, bags, ...
ALTLEARN
L’objectif : construire une plateforme digitale sur laquelle nous mettons des ressources audios et qui s’accompagne d’un livret audio réutilisable. On intègre les informations et les audios dans le livret, les écoles qui ont le support hardware peuvent faire le suivi des enfants. Selon les informations que l’on veut faire passer ou selon les enseignements que l’on doit prodiguer, on télécharge le contenu gratuitement et sans besoin de connexion sur la plateforme. Ainsi, les informations peuvent se renouveler en continu
KWALO
Kawlo is a start-up specialized in providing educational resources and promote education and lifelong learning opportunities (according to SDG #4) through its digital platforms; web portals and kawlo mobile app. Our solution equally response to the COVID crisis by providing an easy feature for children to learn at home through quizzes. Project For Hackathon: During this hackathon, we will add a mobile app digital library and covid 19 awareness sensitization feature. This feature will be added in our mobile app platform during the hackathon to provide an extensive library and a video section creating awareness for covid and much more resourceful videos.

Robot nettoyeur désinfectant
Robot autonome qui servira à nettoyer les surfaces non accessibles ou pas et par la suite déversera un produit désinfectant au choix sur la surface nettoyée. Il sera commandé depuis une application et permettra de choisir les endroits à nettoyer évitant ainsi une quelconque contamination. Il sera utilisé dans les endroits publics et prives tels que les hôpitaux, les supermarchés, les bureaux, les maisons, les établissements de crèche et garderie, les restaurants etc…
S.A.S COVID
Le S.A.S de désinfection est une enceinte hermétique dans laquelle on se fait désinfecter afin d’éviter les contaminations quelconques venant de l’extérieur ou d’un endroit contaminé. Son application est nécessaire dans le domaine de la sante surtout en cette période difficile due à la COVID-19, ce qui nous permettra d’éviter ou de réduire les contaminations pour les personnes travaillant en groupe et même individuelles. Son fonctionnement est tel que lorsqu’une personne venant de l’extérieur se présente il s’ouvre et une fois dedans il ferme ses portes et commence le processus de désinfection. A la fin de l’opération la porte interne s’ouvre, il ressort et le s.a.s referme ses portes. Il faut noter que les personnes venant de l’intérieur ne se font plus désinfecter.
EUDOCOV
EduCov est un projet porté par la startup PegDev sous Pegniyi Consulting, société base à Maroua dans la région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun. EduCov est un projet qui s’adresse aux populations en zones rurales et se veut de débuter dans les régions de l’Est, Adamaoua, Nord et Extrême-Nord (phase pilote). Il porte essentiellement sur une éducation participative et inclusive qui remet au centre les acteurs du domaine (enseignants et élèves) en termes de compétences. Il propose une solution logicielle et matérielle qui constituera un kit éducatif.
laboratoire de fabrication Numérique
Les Fablabs ont été créés pour inspirer les gens et les entrepreneurs à transformer leurs idées en nouveaux produits et prototypes en leur donnant accès à une gamme de technologies de fabrication numérique avancées.

QUE TROUVE-T-ON DANS UN FABLAB ?
Des machines : Imprimante 3D ; Découpe Laser ; Découpe Vinyle ; Fraiseuse CNC ; Carte Electronique, et bien d’autres…
Des femmes, des enfants et des hommes (tout âge confondu): La communauté est la vraie richesse de chaque Fab Lab. C’est en discutant et en partageant que les meilleurs idées peuvent prendre forme. La communauté permet aussi l’entraide, le partage de compétences, la complémentarité.
HACKATHON PROMUD
📲💻 For the production of local kits against COVID-19, and living in a post-COVID world, innovative educational products and produts that facilitate communal development 📲💻
Registration closed, sorry :(
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Some memories of the promud hackathon 2021
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Design THINKING
Design thinking has a human-centered core. It encourages organizations to focus on the people they're creating for, which leads to better products, services, and internal processes. When you sit down to create a solution for a business need, the first question should always be what's the human need behind it?

In employing design thinking, you’re pulling together what’s desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable. It also allows those who aren't trained as designers to use creative tools to address a vast range of challenges. The process starts with taking action and understanding the right questions. It’s about embracing simple mindset shifts and tackling problems from a new direction.

Why Is Design Thinking Important?

It can help you or your team surface unmet needs of the people you are creating for.
It reduces the risk associated with launching new ideas.
It generates solutions that are revolutionary, not just incremental.
It helps organizations learn faster.

https://learningapps.org/view8189679
Design thinking is a process for creative problem solving.
Digital PRINCIPLES
Nine “living” guidelines designed to help digital development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programs.
The Principles are not meant to be stagnant, nor compulsory. They are a set of living guidance intended to help practitioners succeed in applying digital technologies to development programs. Over time, the Digital Principles may change as they are updated and modified to fit specific contexts and environments. The Digital Principles community plays a key role in ensuring the Principles are still relevant and useful.

https://digitalprinciples.org
https://learningapps.org/view5856465

With the advent of accessible digital technology more than a decade ago, international development organizations began seeking new ways of including digital tools in their programming for improved outcomes. These efforts were initially quite successful; significant advancements occurred in various sectors such as health and agriculture, more communities around the globe were connected, and underserved populations were reached in a way that had not been possible before. However, some digitally-enabled programs failed – and quite often that failure was for reasons that were both predictable and preventable.

https://digitalprinciples.org
https://learningapps.org/view5856465
Planning
from June 16th to June 18th
(Deadline for application online is June, 10th)
PROFILE
“For the production of local kits against COVID-19, and living in a post-COVID world, innovative educational products and produts that facilitate communal development”

it is open to everyone, startups, NGOs and individuals.
Registration online is already closed
Innovative Spirit is required
Deadline for application online is June, 10th
Selection Criteria:
Please register online https://forms.gle/cdGDFpU5yQ8aU7n48
1. Relevance: Proposed solution should address a community problem or facilitate education in Cameroon or fight against COVID.
2. Ingenuity and realistic: Solution should be original and can be implemented in Cameroon.
3. Ergonomics and design: Solution should be easy to use in rural communities who are likely not to have access to electricity, internet and may lack the technical know-how.
4. Potential of the team and team spirit.