Untap Blog

Did you know that since 2000, 52% of Fortune 500 companies have gone down the road to failure? Technology disruptions are the main reason these companies either went bankrupt, acquired, or ceased to exist.

“FEKRETEK” was the name given to the program that invited Egyptian women to submit their ideas for evaluation, and three winners would be supported financially by Vodafone to fund their project. Using Untap, Vodafone launched Egypt’s Women empowerment platform, FEKRETEK, on March 8th.

P&G has always been a hardcore believer in the power of innovation.
The theme they constantly follow to bring new products to life is “Bringing the Best of Outside-In and Inside-Out”.

The first step in planning a hackathon is defining your objective. This will set the tone for everything that comes after, such as defining the theme, tracks, eligibility, … etc.

One way of measuring your competition success is by the number and quality of the submissions you receive. However, many competition organizers get lost in the operations, that they forget the outreach and communication part.

As the leading initiative in MENA for learning programming languages in Arabic, the One Million Arab Coders initiative – a Dubai Future Foundation project – needed to use their vast network of coders to act in a very short time frame and come up with tech-based solutions for the Arab world to lessen the challenges caused by COVID-19.

Planning a hackathon has its own specifics, from coming up with the concept, through managing applications, to selecting winners. Keeping a checklist is the simple yet most effective way to close all the gaps in organizing such an event.

One of the reasons why applicants churn from certain programs is the ambiguity related to the application process. Never hearing back from a program can be disappointing, especially if the applicant spent a long time filling in their application form.