February 26, 2021-Feburary 28, 2021

Blackathon is a hackathon by Black people, for Black people to create emancipatory technologies for the Black community globally. The Blackathon welcomes participants from across the African diaspora. We seek those with skills and ideas in user design, user experience, web development, software engineering, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and so much more.

Participants are not required to build out a fully functional software system or functional minimum viable product (MVP). A mockup of an application design, results from data analysis, etc. are welcome. We prioritize well-fleshed out ideas over well-fleshed out systems.

This hackathon prioritizes well-being of our participants and as such participants are welcome to start their project as far in advance as they wish. We find that from our experiences crunching development and analysis into less than three days is averse to mental and physical health. In addition, it does not result in better projects. Since the overall goal is to facilitate liberatory technologies for our communities, we believe that it simply does not make sense to force participants to only work on projects to advance justice in our communities in less than 72 hours. Dreaming of our futures extends beyond 3 days.

Registration is not the same as RSVP'ing. Registrants will be asked to RSVP to confirm their attendance at the event. If you are not able to officially participate, then you will still be invited to the talks.