Zimbabwean University Partners With Web3 Hub to Host Its First-Ever Blockchain Hackathon

On Dec. 8 and 9, the University of Zimbabwe successful concern with the South Africa-based Mzansi Web3 Hub, held the learning institution’s inaugural blockchain hackathon. Taurayi Rupere, the president of the institution’s machine subject department, said the hackathon’s extremity is to nutrient “open-minded” developers who “think extracurricular the box.”

Overwhelming Interest successful the Hackathon

The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) precocious partnered with South Africa-based Mzansi Web3 to clasp the learning institution’s archetypal hackathon. About 175 students from antithetic faculties and stages of their courses registered to enactment successful the Dec. 8 and 9 hackathon.

Taurayi Rupere, the president of the institution’s machine subject department, told Bitcoin.com News that the hackathon’s extremity is to nutrient “open-minded” developers who “think extracurricular the box.” While organizers of the two-day lawsuit were initially targeting students from the machine subject faculty, Rupere said the excitement sparked by the hackathon yet forced his section to widen the invitation to students from different fields.

During an interview, the UZ’s machine subject section president discussed immoderate steps that the assemblage tin instrumentality to assistance some students and non-students larn much astir blockchain technology.

“We request to tally a people to conscientize the marketplace itself, we request to bash this for 2 oregon 3 months. We tin besides bash this via the probe projects that our students do,” Rupere said.

He added that some the UZ and students are hopeful that the hackathon is not going to beryllium a one-off lawsuit but the archetypal of galore much to come.

Enhancing Younger Generations’ Understanding and Skills

Shaheer Karrim, the laminitis of Mzansi Web3 Hub, told Bitcoin.com News that helium is hopeful the acquisition initiatives his enactment is presently undertaking successful Southern Africa “will heighten the younger generations’ knowing and skills successful blockchain technology.” They volition besides heighten “Africa’s progressive information successful the planetary integer revolution.”

Karrim besides spoke of the ongoing relation of the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) successful making blockchain exertion fashionable not conscionable successful Southern Africa but crossed the continent. He said:

“The emergence successful blockchain exertion adoption by African governments and corporates indicates a designation of its imaginable to revolutionise assorted sectors. The Internet Computer Protocol, known for its precocious technological stack, is becoming progressively fashionable worldwide.”

According to Karrim, teaching the continent’s aboriginal generations astir blockchain technologies volition guarantee that African countries’ younker are well-prepared to payment from “the impending integer revolution.” Confidence Nyirenda, the pb ambassador of Mzansi Web3 Hub successful Zimbabwe, said the intent of this and upcoming hackathons is to present the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) to students.

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