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HackathonCameroon2022

Over the last 10 years, Cameroon started a process of decentralization: provinces have been changed into regions, and senators have been established across the country. In 2019, the Government instituted the “General code of regional and local authorities” empowering the localities of each big town of Cameroon: regional councils and presidents of the regions have been elected. In 2021, common decentralisation funds have been distributed. In a decree, the president of the republic of Cameroon transfered URBANISATION AND HOUSING responsibilities to local authorities, giving them more power and budget to master local territorial developments. This unprecendented opportunity comes with economical and finantial autonomisation challenges to solve.

In order to address these challenges, the National Business Incubator of Cameroon has been built in Edea. The place is in charge for training staffs of local authorities and city councils, as well as growing the seeds of the next generation of innovative entreprises of the country. This year it collaborates with an international team of urbanists traveling the African continent under the name of "Traveling Circus of Urbanism" with the objective to solve precisely local urban challenges faced by Cameroonian municipalities.

Hackathon Cameroon 2022 is the opening event of this collaboration, allowing jury members from municipalities, local companies, business coaches, to detect the most promising teams and ideas willing to shape the Cameroonian startup ecosystem of tomorrow. Participants will benefit the most valuable mentoring of international experts on the topic, and shape the better solutions to the crucial issues faced by cities nowadays. The winners of the hackathon will be integrated to a 4-Months program of the National Business Incubator where they will receive support to go from prototype to Minimum Viable Product, find their market-fit, and start their business growth.

Program

Saturday 26 of March:

• 3 pm: Introductory conference. Presentation of the PNPE - National Business Incubator. Présentation of the program of the Hackathon Cameroon 2022. "African Smart-Cities and Urban Innovation startups' incubation in Togo" by Sename A. Koffi 🇹🇬.
• 4.30 pm: Collective Picture.
• 5 pm: Team matching event. Solo applicant attend to gather with team mates depending their interest. Teams will refine their solution together and with the mentors to make their idea clear and find precise objectives for the time of the hackathon.
• 7 pm: Ice-Breaking party! Time to meet each others, know better your team mates, discuss the roles of each, get in touch with the staff, and enjoy the hard work.

Sunday 27 of March:

• 9 am: First pitch. All teams take the call, present themselves and the challenge they want to work on. Mentors be sure everyone has a clear idea in mind and a schedule for the next two days.
• 11 am: first workshop (Urban planning by Neziri 🇽🇰)
• 12 pm: second workshop (GIS analysis by Liza 🇷🇺)
• 1 pm: third workshop (Causality mapping by Surjyatapa 🇮🇳)
• 2 pm: fourth workshop (Geospatial platform by Jordy 🇨🇲)
• 3 pm: fifth workshop (Design thinking by Anahide 🇫🇷)
• 7 pm: checkpoint with mentors #1. All teams take the call. Mentors be sure they have made progress in their solution proposal and upskilled themselves to produce the best prototype.

Monday 28 of march

• 9 am: checkpoint with mentors #2. All teams take the call, give news and tells obstacles for which they need help. Mentors check what progress has been done in prototyping last night and spread support demands over coaches.
• 11 am: sixth workshop (Machine Learning by Volviane 🇨🇲)
• 12 pm: seventh workshop (Storytelling by Mariko 🇯🇵)
• 1 pm: eighth workshop (Crowdfounding by Roland 🇨🇲)
• 2 pm: ninth workshop (Content writing by Bate 🇨🇲)
• 3 pm: tenth workshop (News of the Camerounian ecocystem by Bayle 🇨🇲)
• 7 pm: checkpoint with mentors #3. All teams take the call, present their prototype, business model, strategy for growth.

Tuesday 29 of March

• 9 am: checkpoint with mentors #4. All teams take the call,Youtube training. Attendents should work on their submission and demo video from now.
• 10 am: arrival of the minister and welcoming protocol. Official speakers.
• 11 am: visit of the National Business Incubator. Inauguration of the FabLab.
• 12 pm: submission deadline. 3 min video recorded on youtube + fill the submission form.
• 1 pm: final ceremony with choice from the jury and distribution of prizes.

Datasets

1. Africapolis, 2020, updated 2021. SWAC/OCDE. https://africapolis.org/. African urbanization data at country and agglomeration levels, from 1950 to 2015. Can be used to visualize urban growth, new urban areas, migrations of population, population estimation and density. Evaluate the needs for urban services and regulation, infrastructures... Country level will help with continental analysis while city level will help with country analysis.

• Country level:

  • Total number of people living in urban agglomerations.
  • Share of the urban population in total population.
  • Total number of urban agglomerations in country.
  • Share of metropolitan population in total urban population.
  • Average distance (straight-line) between all pairs of agglomerations in the country.
  • Share of the country’s total land area covered by the total built-up area of urban agglomerations.
  • Total number of people living in country.
  • Total land area in square kilometre.

• City level (agglomerations above 100 000 inhabitants):

  • Number of inhabitants living in the agglomeration.
  • Number of inhabitants per square kilometre.
  • Surface of built-up area in square kilometres.
  • Distance (straight-line) to nearest metropolitan agglomeration in kilometres.
  • Name of corresponding metropolitan agglomeration.
  • Size of the agglomeration’s Voronoi cell in square kilometres.

2. UN database http://data.un.org/. Many datasets on many topics (food, agriculture, population, fertility, mortality...) of which several useful to our urban challenges to solve. Can be used for market analysis, business intelligence, data analysis to empower your pitches, and find the best go-to-market strategy.

• Demographics:

  • Pop total.
  • Pop by city by sex: City population by sex, city and city type.
  • Pop by sex: Country population by sex.
  • Pop proj: population projections by sex.
  • Pop by sex, age, urban/rural.
  • Foreign population (non-citizens) by country of citizenship, age and sex.
  • Population in collective living quarters by type of living quarters, sex and urban/rural residence.

• Waste:

  • Hazardous waste landfilled.
  • Hazardous waste incinerated.
  • Hazardous waste treated or disposed.
  • Waste collected : total amount of municipal waste collected.
  • Total population served by municipal waste collection

• Water:

  • Water Industrial: Mineral and aerated water produced by industrial sector.
  • Population supplied by water supply industry.
  • Population using improved drinking-water sources (%)
  • Population using improved sanitation facilities (%)
  • Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation
  • Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source.

• Internet:

  • Internet use: Percentage of individuals using internet.
  • Mobile subscription: Mobile cellular telephone subscription per 100 habitants.

• Jobs:

  • Unemployment, general level.
  • Employees by activity.
  • Unemployment rate by sex.
  • Start business: time (in days) required to start a business.
  • Start business, male.
  • Start business, female.
  • Start-up procedures to register a business.
  • Start-up procedures to register a business, male (number).
  • Start-up procedures to register a business, female (number).
  • Cost of business start-up procedures (% of GNI per capita)
  • Cost of business start-up procedures, male (% of GNI per capita)
  • Cost of business start-up procedures, female (% of GNI per capita)

• Electricity:

  • Electricity gross production.
  • Time to obtain an electrical connection (in days).
  • Power outages in firms in a typical month (number).
  • Value lost due to electrical outages (% of sales for affected firms).
  • Electricity, net installed capacity of electric power plants.
  • Public private partnerships investment in energy (current US$).

• Transportation:

  • Railways, passengers carried (million passenger-km)
  • Public private partnerships investment in transport (current US$)
  • Logistics performance index: Efficiency of customs clearance process (1=low to 5=high).
  • Logistics performance index: Ability to track and trace consignments (1=low to 5=high).
  • Logistics performance index: Ease of arranging competitively priced shipments (1=low to 5=high)
  • Logistics performance index: Quality of trade and transport-related infrastructure (1=low to 5=high).
  • Logistics performance index: Frequency with which shipments reach consignee within scheduled or expected time (1=low to 5=high)

3. World Bank Data https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/. Free and open access to global development data, on many topics, many can be used for market analysis or other business intelligence insight to shape better your startup project.

• Economy:

  • Development Index (world).
  • Development Indicators (africa).
  • Development indicators (cameroon).
  • Statistical performance indicators.
  • Doing business: 190 countries ranked on easiness of doing business.
  • Enabling Agriculture: identifies reforms to remove obstacles for farmers seeking to grow their business in 101 countries.
  • Finance access policy for all countries.

• Demographics:

  • Migration by skill, industry and country, between 140 countries (2015-2019).
  • Exclusion indicators (world).

• Waste:

  • Solid waste management statistics covering nearly all countries and over 330 cities.

• Environment:

  • ESG Data: 17 key sustainability themes spanning environmental, social, and governance.
  • Natural risks is a shapefile dataset with information about earthquake, water flooding and landslide exposure.
  • Vegetation Cameroun shapefile contains vegetation and forests land cover in Cameroon.
  • Cameroon water courses (shapefile)

• Urbanization:

  • Urban expansion 1985-2015 produced by the Satellite Monitoring Service of Urbanization in Africa.
  • Urban Clusters points built-up areas in Africa with more than 10k inhabitants. Sizes of areas and expansion data.
  • Cameroon cities (shapefiles).

• Jobs:

  • Industry employment growth.
  • Bureaucracy Index (world):cross-national dataset on public sector employment.
  • Jobs: Over 150 indicators on labor-related topics, covering over 200 economies from 1990 to present
  • Jobs Indicators database presents more than 100 labor market indicators for 164 countries.

• Electricity:

  • Cameroon Electricity Transmission Network (shapefile)
  • Cameroon power plants (shapefile)

• Transportation:

  • Logistics Performance Index reflects perceptions of a country's logistics performance.
  • CMR Roads: Quality of roads between cities.

• Food:

  • Food Safety provides information on 518 food safety investments in Africa (2010-2017).

4. Open Street Maps, https://www.openstreetmap.org/. Open source, collaborative project to create a free editable geographic database of the world.

• Urbanization:

  • yaounde streets (shapefile and graph file).
  • douala streets (shapefile and graph file).
  • edea streets (shapefile and graph file).
  • yaounde walkeable streets (shapefile and graph file).

• Economy:

  • POI geosm: Points of interests (bars, restaurants, supermarkets...) of Yaoundé city.

5. Global Human Settlement, https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/.

• Urbanization:
  • Yaounde ghs 2018: built-up area presence as derived from Landsat image collections of 2018.
  • Douala ghs 2018: built-up area presence as derived from Landsat image collections of 2018.

6. World Pop, https://www.worldpop.org/. Open spatial demographic data and peer-reviewed research for population distributions, demographic and dynamics.

• Demographics
  • Cameroon population density 2020, at a resolution of 1km.
  • Cameroon population density 2010, at a resolution of 1km.
  • Cameroon population density 2000, at a resolution of 1km.

7. Yandex, https://n.maps.yandex.ru/. Russian web mapping service provides detailed maps of the whole world, with sometimes a latest update on manual field data collection, which give them different info than OSM and Google Maps. In the case of Cameroon, we had the feeling that they did a good mapping work which could benefit our participants.

• Economy:
  • POI Yandex: Points of interests (bars, restaurants, supermarkets...) of Yaoundé city.