After a week-long marathon of developing tech solutions to complex challenges, working with speakers and mentors to refine ideas and pitches, and the presentation of solutions to a panel of judges, Code for Pakistan, KP IT Board, and the World Bank are concluding the GovTech Hackathon today and have announced the winners on social media.
Winning first place in the GovTech Hackathon is Boltay Huroof, a team co-founded by H S Umer Farooq and Tabish Rafiq with a solution that translates text into braille. Their project was inspired by a teammate’s brother, who had to study without books because the international software that currently exists did not support the translation of local and regional languages into braille.
Regarding his team’s win, co-founder Umer said, “There were so many great ideas and projects that were submitted for the GovTech Hackathon — there was a tough competition, which is partly why we are thrilled and honored that the judges decided to award us with the top prize! It feels amazing to win, but also, it feels even better to know that there are so many like-minded Pakistanis out there who are trying to make our country more inclusive and equitable, and I hope that KP IT Board, Code for Pakistan, and the World Bank continue to invest their energies into developing more opportunities like this one.”
Coming in second place are Eisha Tir Raazia, Mahnoor Imtiaz, Muhammad Hassan Ahmed, Maria Ahmed with their app Drive(H)er, which tackles the safety issues...
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