Team KNUST Wins Business Development For Transformation Devex World Hackathon Challenge
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has won the Devex Hackathon Challenge hosted by Arizona State University, USA, under the thematic area of Business Transforming Development Hackathon challenge. The competition was keenly contested by 20 different universities from 6 different continents. The grand finale which was organised by Devex World and crowned with virtual conference with World renowned speakers on Thursday, 10th December, 2020 and the announcement of all the winners of the various thematic areas. Representing the KNUST student team in an interview by Devex World Hackathon Group via zoom, Mr. Danso Jephter Kumuyi, indicated that, the purpose of the project was to contribute to the achievement of the Indicators 11.6 and 11.7 of Sustainable Development Goal 11, by producing affordable and enhanced prosthesis fabricated from medical plastic and carpentry wastes. In practice, the project contributes to a sustainable environment, clean cities, and improved mobility for amputees, in developing economy context.
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