Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons

Q2 Computer Science
K. Charvát, B. Bye, Hana Kubícková, Foteini Zampati, Tuula Löytty, Kizito Odhiambo, K. Kamau, S. Anand, P. Kasoma, Maximilien Houël, Elias Cherenet, Akaninyene Obot, Felix Kariuki, Antoine Kantiza, Ronald Ssembajwe, Samuel Njogo, W. Kamau
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The paper describes the concept of INSPIRE Kampala virtual hackathons, with the main focus to build and strengthen relationships between several European Union (EU) projects and African communities that started in 2019 with the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon. The main focus is exploring a new model for capacity building based on virtual hackathons as an excellent opportunity for bringing together people from different work environments, culture and disciplinary backgrounds. This paper is describing experience and lessons learned from the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon. INSPIRE Hackathons have evolved over a five year period since it started and during this period we developed a model of fully virtual Hackathons, which we recognise as optimal for Africa. The paper describes all stages of Hackathon building: definition of themes, selection of mentors, development, webinars as tools for sharing experience, final presentation, selection of winners and awarding ceremony. As important we consider also planning other actions, because we don’t see INSPIRE Hackathon as an event, but as a continuous process. Demonstration part of paper describes the lessons learnt from the winning challenge: Desert Locus Monitoring. The description of all phases demonstrate Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon approach. On the basis of experience we defined strategy for the future, how to continue and successfully extend such a model in Africa.
非洲可持续农业的能力发展与合作:通过黑客马拉松扩大影响
本文描述了INSPIRE坎帕拉虚拟黑客马拉松的概念,主要重点是建立和加强几个欧盟项目与非洲社区之间的关系,这些项目始于2019年的内罗毕INSPIRE黑客马拉松。主要重点是探索一种基于虚拟黑客马拉松的能力建设新模式,这是一个将来自不同工作环境、文化和学科背景的人聚集在一起的绝佳机会。本文介绍了坎帕拉INSPIRE黑客马拉松的经验和教训。INSPIRE黑客马拉松自成立以来已经发展了五年多,在此期间,我们开发了一个完全虚拟的黑客马拉松模型,我们认为这是非洲的最佳模式。该论文描述了黑客马拉松建设的各个阶段:主题的定义、导师的选择、发展、作为分享经验工具的网络研讨会、最终演示、获奖者的选择和颁奖典礼。同样重要的是,我们还考虑计划其他行动,因为我们不认为INSPIRE黑客马拉松是一个活动,而是一个持续的过程。论文的示范部分介绍了从获胜挑战中吸取的经验教训:沙漠蝗虫监测。所有阶段的描述展示了坎帕拉INSPIRE黑客马拉松的方法。根据经验,我们确定了未来的战略,如何在非洲继续并成功推广这种模式。
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Data Science Journal
Data Science Journal Computer Science-Computer Science (miscellaneous)
CiteScore
5.40
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发文量
17
审稿时长
10 weeks
期刊介绍: The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed electronic journal publishing papers on the management of data and databases in Science and Technology. Details can be found in the prospectus. The scope of the journal includes descriptions of data systems, their publication on the internet, applications and legal issues. All of the Sciences are covered, including the Physical Sciences, Engineering, the Geosciences and the Biosciences, along with Agriculture and the Medical Science. The journal publishes papers about data and data systems; it does not publish data or data compilations. However it may publish papers about methods of data compilation or analysis.
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