“Hack Ur Culture” aims to make South African cultural data freely accessible so that it can be used and modified by anyone for commercial as well as non-commercial purposes. When cultural data has been opened and can be used by anyone, the public is encouraged to use their imagination to produce something creative and innovative from the open data.

There are two ways to participate. You can participate as an individual by taking part in the creative events or as GLAM institutions interested in learning more about open data. Anyone, not limited to profession or age, can take part in a series of events held by “Hack Ur Culture”.

We have prepared various workshops in which the public can play around with open cultural data. More information about these events will be published soon. If you have any queries, contact us. 

 

If your institution’s mission is to provide education to the public or to make your collection widely accessible, we will help you carry out this mission. In addition, opening your data collection can also increase your institution’s visibility.

“Hack Ur Culture” aims to open South African cultural data for the public. If your institution opens its cultural data, you will be contributing greatly to education and the accessibility of your collection.
 

We will try to help as much as possible so that your institution can share its cultural collection. Please do contact us.

Please contact us and we will get in touch with you shortly. 
 

Of course! Please contact us, so we can stay in touch for future opportunities.

 

Yes, you can still participate however you cannot use your organisation's data in the development of any of your solutions.

↩ go to the Call for Applications

Click on this registration link and complete the application form and you will hear from the organising team if your team application was successful.

• You must be over the age of 18
• You must come from Sub Saharan Africa
• You should be fluent in english as that will be the presentation and written submission language for Hack Ur Culture
• You should have stable access to the internet as the entire hackathon will be taking place virtually

Deadline for team applications is 10 September 2020 at 23:59

24 September 2020

3 weeks

We are looking for teams with 3 to 5 members

Yes, you are more than welcome to register by yourself and we will help you find other team members who have also registered by themselves.

We believe in “each one teach one”.This is an opportunity for the creative and cultural industry to come together and learn from each other while contributing to solving key problems faced by GLAM institutions. This is an opportunity for young professionals to take up space by building the solutions they want to see in the world

This should be your first!

The winning team earns a spot to participate in the Coding Da Vinci hackathon taking place in Germany in 2021 (April or August, depending on International travel restrictions).Additionally, there will be supporting awards for impressive projects that will receive exciting cash/product prizes to be announced in the coming weeks.The winning teams will have their projects featured at the 2020 Fak'ugesi Festival’s Virtual African Heritage & Technology Exhibition

No, this is a completely virtual hackathon. All elements from the kick off to prize giving ceremony will be done virtually.

African German phrasebook, Book Dash, City of Joburg: Library and Information services,The District 6 Museum,The Gay and Lesbian Archive, The Heva fund, The Human Sciences Research Council, Iziko Museums, The Nest Collective, The South African History Archive, Wits Art Museum, WikimediaZA (More may still join)

A call for mentors will go out in the coming weeks

Zoom for all webinars and video conferencing. Discord to host the Hack Ur Culture community

The judging panel will be made up of representatives from the different GLAM institutions together with subject, technology and business experts.

Judges will be using a scorecard to assess the different projects. Key criteria to be assessed is: Impact, Desirability, Feasibility, Viability, Team

As hackathon participants will be engaging with different GLAM data that is held under different licences, teams will NOT be able to commercialise their projects. However GLAM institutions may approach you directly to discuss furthering the project.

BY-CC-NC-SA This may change as we are still receiving different data sets from different GLAM institutions. We will provide updates closer to the kick off date.

Please take a look over here

Yes, provided you use the correct attribution

There will be panel discussions and guest lectures available for the public to attend over the duration of Hack Ur Culture.

Yes, you can still participate however you cannot use your organisation's data in the development of any of your solutions.