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Swahili NLP Hackathon

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Speech and text models that understand Swahili and Sheng as people speak them.

Status

  1. Prize Vault
  2. Hackathon live
  3. Judging
  4. Winners paid 50%
  5. Milestones settled

Problem Statement

Most language tools still stumble on Swahili and fail completely on Sheng. Teams built speech recognition, translation, and search tools trained on how Kenyans actually speak and write.

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Prize Breakdown

  • 1st place

    50% on the day · 50% on milestone

    KES 250,000

  • 2nd place

    50% on the day · 50% on milestone

    KES 120,000

  • 3rd place

    50% on the day · 50% on milestone

    KES 60,000

Winners receive 50% instantly on the day; the rest releases on verified milestone completion.

Organizer

Technetium Kenya

Verified OrganizerTrust score 100

Technetium Kenya runs community-first hackathons across Nairobi, Kisumu, and Mombasa. We partner with local hubs, universities, and employers so every build tackles a real Kenyan problem. Every prize pool is escrowed before a hackathon goes live, winners are paid on the day, and every team leaves with feedback from the judges.

Hackathons hosted
13
Prizes escrowed
KES 7,615,000
On HackVillage since
Sept 2026

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Key Dates

  1. Registration closes

  2. Hacking starts

  3. Submissions close

  4. Media delivered by

All times are Nairobi time (EAT).