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Kingdom Hack

Open Innovation Programme

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

To create an acceleration program where The Redeemed Christian Church of God can engage with startups to solve problems relevant for their future mission An Open Innovation Programme dedicated to Achieving SDG 1 Goal – Eradicating Poverty and Income Redistribution in Africa .

PROJECT DETAILS

  • Client: RCCG
  • Technology : November, 2018
  • Date : Hackathon, Acceleration

Solution

Together with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, we created Kingdom Hack Bootcamp: This was a three-month bespoke startup program with a dual focus on accelerating the startups and exploring formal collaboration with RCCG.  Ten teams were selected out of 1000 applications.

A collaborative approach from day one

Kingdom Hackathon Bootcamp was fuelled by the organisations curiosity in new ideas and belief that real, everyday challenges can only be solved in collaboration with the world outside.

The Bootcamp was customized to focus on RCCG’s three big problems: Seeking to identify, support and scale high-potential Social Impact solutions dedicated to achieving SDG 1 Goal – Eradicating Poverty and Income Redistribution in Africa.

We were Responsible for the Overall Strategy, Program Design, Execution and delivery of an Open Innovation Programme 

From Hundreds of applications to 9 teams

A bit over 60 software developers, UI/UX designers, project managers and subject matter experts were shortlisted from hundreds of applications. These were fixed into nine teams making sure that skills and core competencies were complemented.

Applications were open to the general public without a major criteria. It invited people who were very passionate about the problem and needed an opportunity and necessary support and resource to fix it.

 

From idea to product in 72 hours!

The 72-hour session  began with Ideation and Design Sprints with the assistance of selected mentors – to brainstorm and mobilize ideas and solutions against extreme poverty while improving wealth redistribution in the community.

Beyond just a Hackathon

Kingdom Hack, for us, was not just another Hackathon whose impact is only felt during the sprint. After Kingdom Hack, various teams are still being provided support where necessary so they go on to grow real, problem solving businesses.

A number of startups created as a result of Kingdom Hack are still viable businesses today.

Solutions such as   

Wagro

Wagro is a USSD based solution that helps furnish farmers with tips on how to increase farm yields from their activities. A lot of farmers would increase yield if they are privy of certain information like weather, use of fertilizer and so on. This is what Wagro aims to tackle.

The startup would also be offering other services like helping farmers make more harvest sales.

 

LinkUp

LinkUp is a web and USSD based platform which links artisans to their clients. Through a process as simple as dialing a USSD code, artisans registered on their platform can receive jobs nearby and customers can get serviced anywhere, anytime.

Basically, they’re building Uber, but for artisans.

 

Credital

Credital is focused on giving out loans to petty traders living below the poverty line. These small loans would come from social investors in the general public signed up to their platform, and would help the beneficiaries expand their trade or business achieving more profitability.