This is a broad based stakeholder session focused on understanding emerging trends and advanced data analytics use cases applied to issues of financial inclusion. The goal is to build world-class capacity in advanced data analytics, upskill financial inclusion data analysts and researchers in emerging best practices, and to support the development of contextually relevant algorithm and tech innovation. The boot camp will include face-to-face teaching, virtual online classes, and a hands-on hackathon using the Kaggle.com platform. An ongoing pan-Nigeria selection competition will select the 150 best-performing students/researchers/practitioners that will be accepted into this free boot camp. This year’s boot camp will include a very competitive hackathon using Nigeria-centric data to explore, extrapolate and explain emerging possibilities in financial inclusion algorithms.

Source: The Guardian September 27, 2018 08:48 UTC