Release 2026-Q4· reporting Q3 2026

Hackathons

People from the five countries on projects submitted to web3 hackathons, placed by the location on their public GitHub profile. A separate measure from the open-source developer counts, never added into them.

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Egypt and Ghana are comparators

South Africa, 2025

Sources: Devfolio, participants placed by GitHub location.

Participants
not published
2025
Hackathons with a participant
not published
2025

Participants by year

Distinct people on submitted projects at any collected hackathon that ended in the year: someone at three hackathons counts once. A count under 5 is not published.

Hackathon participants, South Africa

2024: not published. This figure is not published for this period. Why

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Period	South Africa
2024	not published

Hackathons, 2025

Participants from South Africa, per hackathon that ended in 2025. 7 other collected hackathons that year had no participant placed in South Africa.

No participants placed in South Africa

None of the 7 hackathons collected for 2025 had a participant placed there.

Registrations are the platform's own count for every country together, including people who submitted nothing. Organiser reports are published as reported and are not deduplicated across hackathons.

Release 2026-Q4· source snapshot 20261005T130551· data through 2026-09-27· Revision log