NappiDaddi app, a parenting app that was developed within 24 hours has won the R10 000 top prize at the SA Innovation Summit 2015 Hackathon for Early Childhood Development (ECD) held at the SA Innovation Summit in Cape Town.
NappiDaddi aims to use technology to encourage fathers of young children to become more involved in their children’s early care and development. The app aims to encourage dads with various child care “challenges” allowing sharing and exchanging of knowledge; peer to peer advice and an integrated gaming system.
Speaking on behalf of the team that developed the app, Kanya Msila said, “We think that this will appeal to men specifically, as by nature, we are very competitive. NappiDaddi eases the transitioning into parenthood through clear pattern recognition and rule-based guidance as well as democratises the process of raising cognitively strong and healthy children through a facilitated network.”
The hackathon was organized by the Silicon Cape Initiative and the Innovation Edge to offer exciting possibilities for addressing challenges within the early learning space.
