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Can hackathons unlock a new talent pool from the developing world?

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Hackathons not only advance science itself but also help to educate young biotechnologists and artificial intelligence enthusiasts and to build capacity in digital biotechnology in low-income settings.

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Fig. 1: UmojaHack Africa 2022 brought together participants to work and collaborate on three challenges.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

    Timothy P. Jenkins & Andreas H. Laustsen

  2. InstaDeep, London, UK

    Nicolas Lopez Carranza & Karim Beguir

  3. Zindi Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

    Amy Bray

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A.B. works for Zindi Africa, which organized the UmojaHack hackathon discussed. T.P.J. and N.L.C. posed the challenge for the same hackathon.

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Jenkins, T.P., Lopez Carranza, N., Bray, A. et al. Can hackathons unlock a new talent pool from the developing world?. Nat Biotechnol 40, 1297–1298 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01415-x

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