Digital Country Hackathons
A global experiment in digital nation-building. This is your chance to co-create tools that enhance public service delivery, governance, and transparency at scale.
🌍 Why Join?
With 80% of government services now deliverable digitally, Draper Nation is pioneering open-source tools for 21st-century governance.
Our mission is to build the open-source foundations of Digital Nations. Each hackathon contributes to a shared global vision where governance is more transparent, inclusive, and accessible.
🙏 Freedom, Trust & Prosperity
Through Digital Country Hackathons, we unite global builders to co-create public digital infrastructure that helps countries leapfrog outdated systems—and empowers citizens worldwide.
🚀 What You’ll Gain
💡 Turn Ideas Into Reality Get expert guidance from mentors, engineers, and founders to take your concept from idea to working prototype in just 24 hours.
🧠 Sharpen Core Skills Practice business modeling, rapid prototyping, and solution pitching—the fundamentals of effective product delivery.
🌐 Collaborate Globally Team up with digital nomads, civic innovators, and local entrepreneurs. Exchange ideas across borders and strengthen your builds with diverse perspectives.
👊 Build With Us This Summer
This summer, Draper Nation is hosting two powerful hackathons that bring together builders from around the world to shape the next generation of governance tools.
⚡ High-Intensity. High-Impact
Both events are 24-hour sprints where top talent—blockchain engineers, fintech devs, full-stack coders, and AI specialists—collaborate to ship real, working prototypes.
🧠 Think You've Got What It Takes?
We are inviting a highly curated group of top-tier builders, including:
Blockchain engineers
Fintech developers
AI developers and AI engineers
Full-stack developers
The goal is ambitious: build the largest open-source code library for digital governments in the world.
During the first digital nation hackathon, Building A Digital Tibet To Empower The Diaspora, collaboration was high as teams worked together to develop and present their proof of concepts, not only raising awareness for the Tibetan diaspora, but sharing open-source tools to empower a future of global connectivity and advocacy for the preservation of Tibetan culture and identity.
Why Open-Source Matters
Open-source code is more than just transparent—it’s transformative.
By making code freely available, open-source empowers communities to learn, build, and improve together. It breaks down barriers to innovation, encourages collaboration across borders, and ensures that technology is created for the people, with the people.
At Draper Nation, we believe open-source is the foundation of trust, freedom, and progress. It allows anyone, anywhere, to contribute to building tools that shape the future of governance—and to hold those tools accountable.
Open-source isn’t just about code. It’s about community, ownership, and the shared belief that a better future is built in the open.
🧠 Through Digital Country Hackathons, Draper Nation brings together the brightest minds to co-create public digital infrastructure for countries looking to leapfrog into the future.
The goal is ambitious: build the largest open-source code library for digital governments in the world.
💭 What Is A Digital Nation Anyway?
🗺️ Country Not On The World Map
Tuvalu: First Digital Nation
Facing rising seas, Tuvalu is building a digital nation to preserve sovereignty. Through 3D mapping and blockchain, it safeguards identity and sets a precedent.
Here’s a sharp and professional 🤝 Partners & Sponsors section—crafted to attract aligned collaborators and make it easy for them to take the next step:
🤝 Partners & Sponsors
Ready to co-create the future of nations? We’re actively seeking visionary partners to join us in building the digital infrastructure for the 21st century.
We welcome collaboration with:
Web3 & AI infrastructure providers
Cloud & compute platforms
Digital identity & compliance services
VCs, DAOs, NGOs, and foundations
Academic institutions & policy think tanks
Digital Country Hackathons are where ideas become prototypes—and prototypes become policy tools. Your support helps empower builders around the world to design scalable, open-source solutions for real-world governance.
📩 Interested in partnering?
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