Agritech innovators receive Absa Hackathon prizes

Absa Bank Botswana has awarded a total amount of P120 000 to youth innovators in the agriculture sector through its second Absa Hackathon and Incubation programme.

The winners from three teams include, team Binary Thoughts taking the first place and awarded P60 000, team Digital Lead awarded P40 000 in the second position and team EO Analytics awarded P20 000. This year the hackathon saw young Batswana innovators, creating sustainable digital businesses that will address the challenges facing the agricultural sector – AgriTech.

Since launching in February, three participating teams presented their solution to a panel of expert judges from the banking, business, agriculture and technology industries.

Absa Bank Botswana, Managing Director, Keabetswe Pheko-Moshagane said as Absa Bank Botswana, they are deliberate in finding purposeful and innovative solutions such as the Hackathon and Incubation programme that will serve as significant contributors to the greater vision of sustainable digital transformation in Botswana. “As a digitally-led bank, we are inspired to find creative ways to deliver innovative technologies and propositions to help Batswana find ways to get things done. We believe that this will help shape a world that values progress and economic activity to serve the common good,” she said.