Deadline: April 14, 2025
Applications are open for the CivicHive Hack4Democracy Program 2025. Hack4Democracy is an annual hackathon bringing together CivicTech innovators, activists, and organizations across West Africa to create cutting-edge digital solutions for democratic engagement. By leveraging technology, participants tackle challenges such as voter apathy, electoral fraud, misinformation, and shrinking civic spaces.
In the last two decades, the West Africa region has experienced significant political changes in recent years, with growing demands for greater transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement in democratic processes. While some progress has been made in democratic governance, challenges such as voter apathy, military incursion in democracy, electoral fraud, lack of access to information, and limited avenues for citizen participation persist.
Through the Hack4Democracy Hackathon, they are bringing civic-tech leaders across the region, to design civic technology prototypes focused on democratic participation, human rights advancement, and good governance reform that are scalable across the West Africa sub-region. This hackathon will provide opportunity for civictech innovators, activists, and civil society organizations to collaborate and develop digital solutions that enable citizens to actively participate in democratic process, decision-making, and governance.
Benefits
- Fully funded logistics and accommodation for participating organizations within West Africa.
- Take off grants and technical support to develop and launch products.
Eligibility
- Open to civictech organizations with proof of concept, who have already built and tested their civictech solution within West Africa.
- Applicants must be residents or citizens of one of the West African countries:
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cape Verde
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Liberia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
Application
The date for the program is May 19-20, 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria.
For more information, visit Hack4Democracy.
