Over 2,500 Individuals, Institutes Attend Saudi Arabia’s Quran Hackathon
They competed in developing software with the help of serving the Holy Quran, Sabaq.org website reported.
The King Abdul Aziz University organized the event in cooperation with the Saudi Ministry of communications and Information Technology.
Masoud al-Qahtani, an official with the organizing committee said the participants were from 55 countries.
They tried to provide programs aimed at facilitating Quran memorization and recitation he said.
Winners will soon be announced by a panel of judges and receive cash prizes worth 500,000 Saudi Riyals.
A hackathon is a design sprint-like event; often, in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, domain experts, and others collaborate intensively on software projects.
The goal of a hackathon is to create functioning software or hardware by the end of the event. Hackathons tend to have a specific focus, which can include the programming language used, the operating system, an application, an API, or the subject and the demographic group of the programmers. In other cases, there is no restriction on the type of software being created.
