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Absa announces 2022 hackathon winners

Absa MD Keabetswe Pheko-Moshagane
Absa MD Keabetswe Pheko-Moshagane

Absa Bank Botswana has announced the winners of the second Absa Hackathon and Incubation programme.

This year the hackathon saw the participation of young Batswana innovators create sustainable digital businesses that will address the challenges facing the agricultural sector, AgriTech.

Participating teams presented their solution to a panel of expert judges from the banking, business, agriculture, and technology industries. Subsequently, the judges announced the top three teams who made it to the final.

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