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Lesotho Public Financial Management hackathon wants to design a practical and innovative potential digital technology solution to authenticate transactions and documents in the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) by users.

The programme therefore seeks innovators who can collaborate to build a Minimal Viable Product.

The three-day design thinking programme would include multidisciplinary teams who would analyze the problem, generate ideas, and propose some concrete technological solutions to set up digital signature infrastructure for the IFMIS in Lesotho.

With the potential of being used across the public sector for transaction processing, these proposed digital solutions are expected to be presented in the form of a prototype. The hackathon’s working sessions will be conducted by professional facilitators with experience in public sector digital innovations.

Benefits

Winners of the Lesotho Public Financial Management hackathon stand a chance to receive a $10,000 grand prize. The winning team will receive their prize in 3 phases of development of the solution with the first 33% provided at the end of the hackathon.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Lesotho Public Financial Management hackathon, applicants must meet the following criteria:

You must be based within the sub-Saharan Africa region
A team must be inclusive of the skill sets including cryptographic expertise, enterprise architecture and software development as well as other skills
You should not be from stakeholder organizations
Members of a team must be 18 years and older
The team’s proposal should cite open licenses published by the Open-Source Initiative (OSI) of the tech / tools to be used
You may apply as an individual and be match-made with other participants