Published: 02 Apr 2025
Whether you’re an innovator, activist, or tech enthusiast, this is your opportunity to collaborate with changemakers, tackle real-world challenges, and pioneer technologies that drive transparency, accountability, and inclusive decision-making in the region.
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 our Hack4Democracy Hackathon, we 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.
Application Deadline | April 14, 2025 |
Type | Fellowship |
Sponsor | Civichive |
Gender | Men and Women |
Here are some of the benefits of the Hack4Democracy.
Our hackathon focuses on solving critical issues in democracy through these five thematic areas.
Applicants must be residents or citizens of one of the 15 West African countries:
All proposed projects and solutions must align with the core theme of the hackathon, which is to use technology to:
For more details, visit CivcHive webpage