About the challenge
Kifiya Inspire is a monthly hackathon series designed to ignite creativity, collaboration, and innovation among Kifiya’s technology teams. Focused on leveraging cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and emerging technologies to solve real-world challenges in financial services, credit scoring, and digital inclusion, Kifiya Inspire provides a platform for teams to experiment, build, and reimagine the future of fintech. It’s more than just coding; it’s about inspiring bold ideas that drive smarter, fairer, and more inclusive financial solutions for everyone.
Requirements
What to Build
Intelligent Infrastructure: Building the AI Core of Finance
Reimagining the foundations of financial systems through artificial intelligence.
This theme focuses on Intelligent Financial Infrastructure (IFI), the underlying framework that enables every digital financial experience. IFI powers critical components such as digital onboarding, identity and access management (IAM), loan management systems (LMS), digital wallets, credit risk categorization, fraud detection engines, and credit scoring and decisioning platforms. It acts as the invisible architecture that keeps financial ecosystems secure, scalable, and intelligent.
Through the Kifiya Inspires Hackathon Series, we aim to explore and innovate across these essential building blocks, addressing one component at a time. Each hackathon will challenge teams to design and prototype AI-driven solutions that enhance a specific layer of this infrastructure, helping shape the intelligent backbone of Africa’s digital financial future.
What to Submit
Working solution presentation and demo.
Prizes
Cash for the group.
Judges
Yigermal Meshesha
Antony Omeri
Dr. Natnael Argaw
Yonathan Seyoum
Mesfin Bezu
Judging Criteria
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Deployment Readiness (40%)
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Business Alignment (30%)
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Technical Robustness (30%)
Questions? Email the hackathon manager