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Can technology solve the city’s transport problem?

A 2-day TroTro Apps Challenge hackathon on the MEST campus will see over a hundred programmers compete to come up with innovative applications based on the extensive trotro network in the city.

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It is estimated that every day at least one million people commute from one place to another within the city of four million inhabitants.

So the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), Concordia University and the French Agency for Development want to use technology to solve the problems that beset transport in Accra.

Last year, a survey revealed that 315 trotro routes were identified and mapped out within the metropolis. Programmers and developers will be furnished with this data at the TroTro Apps Challenge on May 27 and 28 and will be expected to come out with innovative solutions to the transportation woes in the city.

The two-day hackathon on the MEST campus will see over a hundred programmers compete to come up with innovative applications based on the extensive trotro network in the city.

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According to Amma Baffoe; head of communications and recruitment at MEST, the challenge will “bring together key players in Accra’s public transport sector and the technology ecosystem to brainstorm and develop solutions aimed at utilizing the rich data gathered on the trotro routes in innovative ways and enhancing mobility in Accra.”

Global transportation network service, Uber, is expected to start operation in Accra in the coming weeks.

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