{"id":204973,"date":"2025-08-19T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mega-hackathon-fundraiser-seeks-support-for-namibias-digital-future\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:46:08","slug":"namibia-mega-hackathon-fundraiser-seeks-support-for-namibias-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mega-hackathon-fundraiser-seeks-support-for-namibias-digital-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mega Hackathon Fundraiser Seeks Support for Namibia&#8217;s Digital Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Linda Aipinge, acting executive director of information and communication technology, at the mega hackathon fundraiser, Windhoek, 15 August 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this special fundraising event in support of our upcoming mega hackathon. Today, we are not just gathering resources &#8211; we are investing in ideas, innovation, and the bright minds that will shape our digital future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Hackathons are more than competitions. They are platforms where creativity meets technology,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180300.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>Linda Aipinge, acting executive director of information and communication technology, at the mega hackathon fundraiser, Windhoek, 15 August 2025 It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this special fundraising event in support of our upcoming mega hackathon. Today, we are not just gathering resources &#8211; we are investing in ideas, innovation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204974,"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":[258,256,9633,23502,5760,33491,7561,4706,724,9052,257,8111,254,6096],"class_list":["post-204973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-digital","tag-fundraiser","tag-future","tag-hackathon","tag-mega","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/204973","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=204973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}