Hopefully efforts such as these will help to spur entrepreneurship and economic growth in West Africa. As opposed to reliance on outside development aid (as depicted in the film last week), programs such as these can generate opportunities in Africa and create jobs to help attack the source of poverty rather than alleviate the symptoms.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/08/huge-hackathon-in-west-africa-hopes-to-produce-the-next-wave-of-startups/