By Ozolua Uhakheme
Following the successful hosting of Hackathon4 Justice last year in Lagos, Facebook, Andela and UNODC have partnered to organise the second edition of the event.
Through the UNODC’s Education for Justice initiative young Nigerians will be brought together for a two-day hackathon event, which aims to find technological solutions to tackle crime, uphold justice and promote the rule of law.
The two-day event will hold at Andela’s headquarters in Lagos between February8 and 9 and aims to spark creativity in young people whilst pushing their coding capabilities.
The competition will also showcase how the youth can contribute to implementing SDG 16 which promotes peace, justice and strong institutions and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Last year edition saw 50 participants tasked with finding innovative technological solutions to various rule of law issues.
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The competition was won by a web application from a University of Lagos team, named Let’s Fight Trafficking, which was designed to help educate about and find human trafficking victims.
David Popoola, Eyitayo Ogunbiyi and Chukwudumebi Onwuli, all undergraduates of the University of Lagos. The trio won a trip to the Global Hackathon4Justice event held in Washington, DC, USA, at the margins of the World Bank’s Law, Justice and Development Week 2019, where they participated as mentors.
Let’s Fight Trafficking (TFL) developed at the Hackathon4Justice event was created to unmask traffickers. It features an e-learning planning platform on human trafficking; a facial recognition system that matches feed from webcams and other images to determine existing case with similar images in the database; a portal for victim’s close friends to file reports about trafficking in their area and a heat map, generated from report data to let users know where trafficking is most prevalent and take preventive measures.
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