'Hackathon' in a good cause

08 October 2015 - 02:19

By Reuters

Powered by caffeine and adrenaline, hundreds of Kenyan and Canadian geeks will compete over Skype in a 28-hour ''hackathon'' to develop apps to improve rural Kenyans' health, farms and access to education. Hackathons are marathon brainstorming sessions where computer programmers get together to write software.

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