MAKAIRO // NYM-KE-2063 // FL-006
ACTIVEGKHack26 Kenyan Node — coordination
- Accession
- FL-006
- Series
- FL — Field Log
- Opened
- 2026-07-17
- Closed
- —
- Status
- ACTIVE
- State
- Expression of interest open to 11 Sep — node builds 25–27 Sep
Abstract
Geekulcha appoints Lolwe AI & Robotics coordinator for Kenyan participation in the Geekulcha Annual Hackathon 2026. The Kenyan node builds in Kisumu, 25–27 September, under the theme Build For Use.
Holdings
- ·Geekulcha letter, 17 July 2026, signed Yolisa Dumezweni, Head: Research and Development — "the physical participation will be coordinated by Lolwe AI and Robotics … on behalf of Geekulcha"
- ·Kenyan focus areas submitted by Lolwe AI: agriculture, mining, aerial mapping
- ·Expression of interest, open to 11 September 2026, held by Lolwe AI — not a registration
- ·Virtual onboarding session: 11 September 2026, 16:00 EAT, Microsoft Teams
- ·GKHack26 Kisumu Deployment Award — a funded 90-day institutional deployment, team credited and retained
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Record
A coordination role, not a deployment. Lolwe AI does not own the hackathon, does not rename it and does not run a competing registration — the programme, the judging framework and the platform are Geekulcha's. What is coordinated is the Kenyan side: mobilising builders through the lake region universities, standing up the physical node, and carrying participants through to Geekulcha's own platform.
No venue is recorded. Geekulcha wrote to the Vice Chancellor of Great Lakes University of Kisumu on 17 July 2026 asking the University to host; the University has not confirmed. Maseno, Kisii and Great Lakes have all been approached and none is filed here as a confirmed partner. This record names an institution as host only when that institution has said so in writing.
No cash figure is filed. The award is committed in kind and a cash component is unfunded; the undertaking given to Geekulcha on 23 August 2026 was that no figure would be announced until it sits in an account. This record moves to PROOF-FILED when the node has run and the deployment it produces can be pointed at.