The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) on
Tuesday opened registration for the first edition of #PEBECHack, a series of
Hackathons designed to solve problems at the intersection of government processes
and regulations, and the ease of doing business in Nigeria.
The Council after its monthly meeting at the State House agreed to
bring together various teams to compete on developing a tool that will promote
accountability, performance tracking and transparency among key Ministries,
Departments and Agencies (MDAs) crucial to the success of Nigeria’s Ease of
Doing Business, at the first #PEBECHack.
“The competing
teams would develop a service management solution that will allow citizens
monitor, provide feedback, report, make complaints, and ‘blow-a-whistle’ about
the quality of service received from key Federal Government Doing Business MDAs
or at strategic locations such as airports, seaports and land borders,” the
statement said.
Up to N1.5 million in cash prizes will be won, with several other
in-kind prizes also up for grabs.
Interested
#PEBECHack participants can register as individuals or teams on www.ebes.gov.ng/pebec-hackathon between Tuesday May 23 and Tuesday June 6, 2017. The Hackathon itself
will hold over two days on June 23 and 24, 2017 in Lagos.
It would be
recalled that Vice President YemiOsinbajo, who is the PEBEC chair, had
announced on May 1, 2017 at an event in Lagos that the PEBEC Secretariat would
be bringing together techies in a Hackathon to develop a “solution for tracking
reforms and getting public feedback… and enable the public to complain directly
about government agencies that are making doing business difficult.”
Similarly, the
PEBEC Secretariat has finalized arrangements to conduct a survey in the coming
days to gather feedback from the public on challenges related to producing,
trading and transporting goods within Nigeria. The survey is focused on
capturing feedback for key agencies - SON, NAFDAC, NOTAP, MITI Trademarks
office, Police and Customs.
#PEBECHack is held
in partnership with L5 Lab, Venture Garden Group, Techplus and Microsoft. Media
partners are Pulse, Ynaija and Starta.
More information
about the Hackathon can be found on www.ebes.gov.ng/pebec-hackathon or on Twitter: @EBESnigeria and Facebook: www.Facebook.com/EBESnigeria. The official hashtag is #PEBECHack.
For enquiries, send email to info@ebes.gov.ng.
Dr JumokeOduwole
COORDINATOR,
ENABLING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT SECRETARIAT (EBES)
MAY 28, 2017
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