"There is no app for this!" Hackathon | DAY ONE.

Open Institute and the University of Warwick partnered for mentorship and training of there's is no app for this Hackathon.
The Silicon Savannah is a term used to describe the technology ecosystem in Kenya and it illustrates the rapid technological advances that have been made in the Kenyan ICT sector. This focus has led to international attention and increased private equity firms which promote norms of efficiency and growth to budding entrepreneurs who change their practices in order to increase their chances of funding (Friederici et al 2019). This is problematic because it impoverishes development of local products while also leaving the continent dependent on Western software and infrastructure (Biharne 2020). Many health app developers knowingly or unknowingly sign away the rights to the data collected by health apps at the development stage. This project aims to question whether, and if so how, we can change some of the logics of the development process (that is the road-to- market innovation cycle) of health apps to embed more progressive processes that are less apt to lead to the reinforcement of digital health coloniality.