Factors which turn specific city regions into engine rooms for tech innovation and taking solutions to market.

Insur;Hack Report

Insights for an inclusive and tech-enabled insurance sector in Egypt.

Data Enthusiast Training: Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science

The continued journey of data science interns, Dieudonné Niyitanga and Samuel Mutinda

Dieudonné Niyitanga and Samuel Mutinda's data internship journey.

Watch the #DataHack4FI Season 3, Grand Finale video to see highlights from day one and two of the finale.

Did you miss out on #DataHack4FI Season3 Grand Finale in Kigali? Watch the video on how this initiative is connecting #digitalskills and #innovation in Africa.

Watch the #DataHack4FI Season 3, Grand Finale photo gallery to see highlights from day one and two of the finale.

Four findings from the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition.

The DataHack4FI Innovation Competition promotes the use of data analytics to solve challenges experienced by individuals or communities.

DataHack4FI brings together data enthusiasts and emerging tech companies to promote data-driven solutions for financial and economic inclusion.

Four findings from Season 2 of the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition.

The primary objective of this report is to deliver unique insights regarding the impact of DataHack4FI Season 2 on fintechs and aspiring data scientists.

Full webinar - Using Data to Scale Your Product and Grow Your Business.

Full webinar - Market Research for Emerging Companies.

Data science: A challenging career with incredible potential for a financially inclusive Africa

Learnings on the data science landscape in Africa from the DataHack4FI initiative

Full webinar - Fundamentals of Financial and Economic Inclusion.

What we’ve learned over three seasons of the DataHack4FI innovation competition and how the competition has evolved.

Improving efficiency in mobile-money agent networks

The potential of alternative data to better serve MSMEs in Zambia

Targeting small businesses with personalised business advice and predicting successful loan applications

Read our interview with an entrepreneur building a digital identity business in Africa.

Targeting beginner and experienced stock market traders with a digital investment platform.

See how this Datahack4FI team is digitising savings groups in Rwanda

InvestXD created a digital investment platform for women and youth.

See how this Datahack4FI team is digitising savings groups in Rwanda

DataHack4FI in-country winners from Ghana offer a multiple-database-verification API solution to identity verification.

DataHack4FI Rwanda winners, AgriGO, aims to tackle financial vulnerability of smallholder farmers.

ZedCredit from Zambia provides access to savings, loans and a credit score via their mobile app.

Ekow Duker shares some advice on building a career in data science with participants of i2i’s DataHack4FI Innovation Competition.

A list of curated links for those looking to improve their data skills and access data science networks.

Introduction to Financial Inclusion and the DataHack4FI process- February 1, 2018

Work done so far and the road ahead – where in the development process are you?

Data modeling workshop

Design thinking, use the data you have for decision making.

Second Meetup at BongoHive Zambia's Innovation and Technology Hub

Third Meetup at BongoHive Zambia's Innovation and Technology Hub

Fifth Meetup at BongoHive Zambia's Innovation and Technology Hub

The all-country DataHack4FI finalists

Meet the 10 teams from six countries who will be pitching in the DataHack4FI Grande Finale.

insight2impact’s DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) is an African innovation competition that encourages finance, tech and data enthusiasts to collaborate.

Look at what the winning teams from Season 1 DataHack4FI have achieved in the last year.

DataHack4FI Season 1 in-country winner for Ghana

Mobiticket is a start-up based in Nairobi. It focuses on digitising the informal public transport sector across developing countries.

The DataHack4FI Season 2 launch in Accra kick-started the competition that uses data to solve problems.

Introducing a Uganda-based fintech company that supports MSMEs in automating and optimising their operations.

The first in-country launch of DataHack 4 Financial Inclusion Season 2 takes place in Ghana, November 2017

Catch up with three winning teams from DataHack4FI.

The DataHack4FI Competition came to a close in May 2017, after seven months of crowdsourcing data-driven solutions

Highlights, Kigali, Rwanda, 10 -12 May 2017

in Kigali, Rwanda on the 9 May 2017

Team Mobiticket has been awarded top spot in the i2i DataHack4FI competition.

DataHack4FI innovation competition brochure

The journey to the DataHack4FI finals

Faith started her enterprise with her own income and lacks access to finance to grow beyond the few fruit stalls she owns.

Datahacks4Fi Presentations Rwanda

The Datahack4FI innovation competition in Rwanda

Highlights, Friday 24th – Sunday 26th March 2017.

As you leave Kampala and its busy streets, you head into rural Uganda where you exchange small shops

Thoughts from the first event in the #DataHacks4FI meet-up series in Naroibi

Building mutually beneficial financial inclusion communities through data

Nkosi introduces the i2i Applications Lab

Developing data-driven solutions to real-world problems

i2i launches the DataHacks4Fi competition series