While the whole world was on high alert and the virus was spreading exponentially, information sharing had proved to be of the utmost importance for everyone.

However, for all its blessings, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a delicate national health infrastructure that faced the most serious challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. The transmission rate of the new coronavirus, responsible for COVID-19, imposes a challenge of a completely different magnitude. 

So in April 2020, we joined an international group of African scientists and technologists to fight the pandemic in one of the most challenging battlegrounds. We have thus contributed to the [website ](https://www.covid19drc.com/)design, which provides statistical tools to follow the official figures of COVID-19 in the DRC. Information on the number of confirmed cases, deaths, recoveries, and active cases by province and date.

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So in the context of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, we participated in the **Free Face Shield** project. The objective was to support the local manufacturing of protective equipment that was freely given to health professionals and first responders. We cover the cost of production via fundraising, volunteering, and different collaborations.

The COVID-19 RDC team covered production costs through fundraising, volunteering, and various collaborations.

We were part of the various teams in Goma in North Kivu who produced protective visors using 3D printers.




What have you done in your field to help your community against COVID-19 while the whole world was worried and in alert ?

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## Cardano Summit 2021 | Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

Cardano is an open-source blockchain, as well as a platform for executing smart contracts. Cardano's internal cryptocurrency is called ** Ada **.
The Cardano 2021 summit was held in several cities around the world, including the city of Goma across the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
We had the pleasure of co-organizing this event for two days under the theme:
 **«Blockchain technology and Cardano»**

### **Program Day 1: Blockchain (From 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.)**

**From 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.**

- Presentation of the Cardano Summit
- Context of Goma's participation

**From 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.**

- What is blockchain?
- How it works?
 
**From 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.**

- What is the Blockchain for, what is its social impact?
- What are the upcoming opportunities in the Blockchain for African developers?
- How to be a blockchain entrepreneur?
- How can the education system implement blockchain? 


### **Program Day 2: Cardano and Project Catalyst (From 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.)**

**From 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.**

- What is the Cardano project?
- How the Cardano blockchain works ? 
- What possibilities do the Cardano network offer? 
- Exchanges with the audience 

**From 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.**

- How does the governance of the Cardano protocol work? 
- What are the advantages of the Cardano network for SMEs and startups - Catalyst Project?
- Local governance and value chains.

The Cardano 2021 summit was held in several cities around the world, including the city of Goma across the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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# UPDEV CHALLENGE 1rst Edition

For this first edition, registrations are expected at $5 and will end two weeks after the launch date. We will then communicate the start date of the training to you. Participants enrolled in an intensive week-long training program that allows them to develop critical thinking, speaking, and presentation skills to ensure they are well-prepared on competition day. During this training, the trainers determine, based on the selection criteria, the 10 best projects to be retained to be presented before the judges.

The objective of this competition is to first unearth different ideas, different solutions to the problems of our country, to provide solutions, to have as many applications as possible "made in DRC". Secondly, it is to give the chance to have support to these young people with good ideas so that their ideas are put into practice.

The training will take place in Goma / Democratic Republic of Congo.


## 1. Conditions of eligibility :

- Be in the age group of 16-26 years
- Be able to speak French or English
- Be of African descent
- Candidates must be available during the week of the training, which takes place in two sections every day: those in the morning from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and those in the afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Have a project


### 2. Selection criteria

- Your application should describe the concern you want to solve and how to solve it, including the technologies you use or need to develop.
- Your original solution or create an improvement of existing solutions.
- You must consider that many Africans have variable Internet access depending on the frequency of their use and the devices they will be using (laptop, tablet, mobile phone).
- A graphical presentation should accompany the presentation, demonstrating the solution will work and an example of the user interface.

### 3. Advantages

- Participants benefit from the week of training, during which they have the opportunity to meet different trainers, most of whom are entrepreneurs, developers, and business leaders who can intervene in the development of their projects.

- The first 3 candidates will benefit from the monitoring of their projects until the terminal phase (deployment) and monetary prizes including 1st 500,000 CDF, 2ᵉ 200,000 CDF, 3ᵉ 100,000 CDF

- The winner of the UPDEV Challenge is selected by a high-level jury, after a presentation and a demo where he (she) receives exciting prizes, in particular, a monetary prize or a phone or a tablet or a laptop




UPDEV CHALLENGE is a competition bringing together young people between 15 and 27 who have an innovative project in technology.

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