Group Wins Hackathon Competition

Team Cosmos Constellation (CStell) emerged as winners of the //Re:Code Nigeria Hackathon 2018 themed, “Data Hack.”

The event was sponsored by Access Bank Plc in partnership with Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF). The team was part of the 115 groups of talented developers, designers, problem-solvers, out-of-the-box thinkers, and code magicians that participated in the event.

//Re:Code Nigeria Hackathon is an event that brings together developers from diverse background in Nigeria to collaborate in providing innovative solutions to help resolve some of the Nation’s toughest challenges in the financial services industry.

Participants were grouped into 26 teams to provide solutions to three problem statements and pitch their solutions to the judges within a time frame of 48hours.

The winners went home with a cash prize totalling about N5 million, among other prices.

The winning team this year, Cosmos Constellation (C-Stell), created a system to minimise demurrage contributed by human errors by creating a system that uses optical character recognition to fetch text from scanned documents.

It also provides notifications to minimise demurrage and offers the tracking of shipments across ports.

Team Ace came second place with their solution called TrackIt. They created a system that not only views and gives up to date tracking of shipments, but can check analytics and provide information of all payments accrued and shipments in process or honoured in real time.

Third position went to Team BAT (Building Awesome Technologies). They created a Smart assistant which leverages Imputed data set, Unsupervised Deep-learning algorithm and Internet of things to aid and guide the users in making informed decision while keeping engagement simple