Announcing Hack4Freedom 2026

Across Africa, women face the greatest barriers to financial access, censorship-resistant communication, and digital autonomy, yet they remain the least represented in building the technologies that aim to solve these problems. Globally, women make up roughly 3% of open-source contributors. In African tech, they represent less than 8% of developers. And although women make up the majority of the unbanked worldwide, they are rarely included in designing the tools meant to protect privacy, enable