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Events:
HackaDev: Impact through Innovation
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Asitha Kodithuwakkuge of the UNDP lecturing |
On August 25, the UNDP Sri Lanka and Dialog Ideamart launched Sri
Lanka's first social innovation hackathon titled, 'HackaDev: Impact
through Innovation', to find innovative solutions to development
challenges under the three core areas of Employment and Enterprise,
Electronic Waste Management and Civic Engagement.
An awareness session was also held on the same day. Asitha
Kodithuwakkuge, UNDP Sri Lanka's Livelihood and Local Economic
Development Specialist, presented the challenges found within the core
area of Employment and Enterprise, while Ms. Sugandhi Samarasinghe,
Project Associate of UNDP Sri Lanka's Environmental Sustainability and
Disaster Resilience cluster, highlighted the challenges within
electronic waste management. Ms. Sonali Dayaratne, Policy Specialist at
UNDP Sri Lanka, presented the core challenges of civic engagement in Sri
Lanka.
Around 250 young people attended the event and the audience comprised
mostly of university students and developers studying IT, employees of
IT companies, members from the Dialog Ideamart ecosystem, CSO members,
and individuals with an interest in the subject.
All participants have time till September 14 to develop ideas and
solutions before submitting their proposals via the UNDP Website (www.lk.undp.org).
Teams have the opportunity to submit multiple proposals, however,
only the single best idea will be selected for the HackaDev which is
scheduled to be held on September 25. |
