As part of their applications, challenge participants were required to go through a series of co-creation and engagement activities. Doing so helped foster a spirit of and encouraged knowledge sharing in an innovative way. Hackathon participants first submitted an overview or proposal through the Mt. Kenya innovation week platform for the first level of judging, the selected innovations were then subjected to a community and fellow innovators’ feedback and judging. The final 16 were selected and other innovators were asked to join the selected innovators for the intense 48hr hackathon.
