{"id":204926,"date":"2025-08-18T15:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mega-hackathon-fundraiser-launched-to-drive-youth-led-digital-transformation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:44:57","slug":"namibia-mega-hackathon-fundraiser-launched-to-drive-youth-led-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mega-hackathon-fundraiser-launched-to-drive-youth-led-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mega Hackathon Fundraiser Launched to Drive Youth-Led Digital Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Emma Theofelus, minister of information and communication technology, at the hackathon fundraiser, Windhoek, 14 August 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In my role as minister, her excellency bestowed her trust upon me to drive the national efforts in harnessing technology for economic growth, public service improvement, and societal advancement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">This role integrates policy leadership, innovation promotion, and digital infrastructure oversight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">A week ago, as a nation, we launched a comprehensive strategy outlining how&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180301.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Theofelus, minister of information and communication technology, at the hackathon fundraiser, Windhoek, 14 August 2025 In my role as minister, her excellency bestowed her trust upon me to drive the national efforts in harnessing technology for economic growth, public service improvement, and societal advancement. This role integrates policy leadership, innovation promotion, and digital infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9633,13716,23502,33491,6456,7561,4706,724,257,254,6240,41591],"class_list":["post-204926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-digital","tag-drive","tag-fundraiser","tag-hackathon","tag-launched","tag-mega","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transformation","tag-youthled"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}