Dhriiti (A leading NGO working in the Women Entrepreneurship) and Impact Hub Manila (pioneer in organizing international brands of hackathons) in collaboration with Project Her & Now of GIZ, Nasscom Foundation, Villigro and NuSocia announced the launch of the first edition of Scipt4HER Hackathon.

According to the Sixth Economic Census, women constitute only 14% of India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. In addition to the regular entrepreneurial challenges, they have to also fight gender stereotypes. For rural women, the challenge just becomes four-fold.

Scipt4HER Hackathon will allow participants to test their passion for innovation, problem-solving, design thinking, and programming skills by solving the pressing problems faced by women entrepreneurs and drive gender-responsive solutions.

●        How can you bring Financial Inclusion for rural women?

●        How can you deliver tech solutions in leveraging mainstream market and trade for rural women entrepreneurs?

●        How can you build peer-support communities for rural women?

The Hackathon follows a 72-hour format starting Sept 27th and ending Sept 30th where teams tackle various problems by coming up with digital / tech solutions. The Winning team will receive:

●       Cash Awards (INR 1 lakh for each winning team)

●       Dhriiti Incubation Support to create prototype of the ideas

●       Networking with various players from the startup world

●       Coverage of the winners and initiatives across various media platforms

₹ 300,000 in prizes

• Technical Robustness / Scalability (30%)
  Does the code have bugs? Is the project technically impressive? Does it seem remarkable that someone could achieve this hack in just a day or two? How complete is the submission? Did they leverage other techniques that already exist?
• Business Viability (30%)
  Details of market potential of the solution? Is this idea going to make money, or at least contribute to the solution that will? Is the idea a relevant solution to the given challenge? How easy and cost effective is the proposed solutions?
• Social Impact (30%)
  Did the team solve a significant problem in terms of size and impact?
• Design and Learning Stretch (10%)
  Did the team push themselves to learn something new? What technologies/APIs/Products/Methods did they use, that they didn’t know before? Did they use their resources and time well? Is the idea original?