Yas Zanzibar International Marathon — Official ICT Partner (2025)

YanaCorp served as the Official ICT Partner for the Yas Zanzibar International Marathon (23 November 2025), delivering an end-to-end digital platform for live runner tracking, participant management, bib printing and automated digital certificates — enabling a secure, reliable and highly visible race experience.

Project overview

YanaCorp designed, implemented and operated the event’s digital backbone: a unified system that connected registration, payments, participant credentials, real-time tracking and results publication. The platform provided organizers, participants, media and spectators with a single, authoritative source of truth throughout race day, while our on-ground team ensured seamless execution and participant support.

This engagement demonstrated YanaCorp’s ability to deliver mission-critical infrastructure in a live, high-visibility environment — from pre-event load testing and systems integration to on-site technical operations and post-event processing.

The challenge

Organising a marathon at national and international scale introduces several operational and technical challenges:

• Real-time tracking of hundreds (or thousands) of runners across start lines, checkpoints and finish.
• Accurate registration, bib allocation and identity verification under time pressure.
• Fast, reliable issuance and distribution of completion certificates.
• Continuous, public-facing race updates for participants, families, media and organisers.
• Integration of timing/tracking hardware, registration and result publication in low-bandwidth or island environments.
• Maintaining data integrity, privacy and system resilience during peak load.

Organisers required an integrated, resilient and secure digital solution to solve these challenges and improve race day experience for all stakeholders.

Our solution

YanaCorp delivered a tailored marathon management platform and on-site services that included:

• Real-time runner tracking & public dashboard — each runner assigned a unique ID with live start/checkpoint/finish statuses, leaderboards and public feeds.
• Printable bibs — bibs containing runner info.
• Automated digital certificates — certificates generated and made available immediately after finish, removing manual bottlenecks.
• Secure registration — validated participant data and central participant database.
• On-site technical operations — branded kiosks, check-in desks, help desks and connectivity management.
• Communications & social media — content production and live social updates to amplify event reach and YanaCorp’s brand visibility.
• Resilient hosting & monitoring — scalable infrastructure and active monitoring to ensure uptime during peak traffic.

Implementation & activities

• Full system design, development, testing and deployment before event day.
• Integration and coordination with timing hardware and third-party services where necessary.
• On-site team for registration, identity verification and incident response.
• Live monitoring of dashboard and support for real-time result publication.
• Post-event data archiving, result reconciliation and certificate distribution.
• Media kit and social media content to document and promote the event.

Results & impact

• Real-time visibility: Hundreds of runners tracked in real time; progress visible on public dashboard — enhancing spectator engagement and transparency.
• Operational efficiency: Manual certificate issuance eliminated; results and certificates delivered rapidly and accurately.
• Professional event delivery: Demonstrated capacity to provide enterprise-grade systems for local events — raising standards for event management in the region.
• Brand & partnerships: Enhanced YanaCorp’s reputation as a dependable ICT partner for public events, strengthening relationships with organisers, NGOs and public institutions.
• Repeatable model: Validated an end-to-end, repeatable blueprint for future civic and mass-participation events.

Metrics:

• Participants registered: 4700
• Runners tracked in real time: 3200
• Certificates issued automatically: 3200
• Dashboard uptime during event: 99.9%
• Bibs printed: 4700

Technology & operations (technical annex available on request)

Frontend: responsive web UI for public dashboard and participant pages (React or equivalent).
Backend: secure APIs, event worker queues for certificate generation, relational database for participants.
Tracking: GPS/telemetry ingestion and mapping layer for live positions.
Infrastructure: scalable managed cloud/private cloud, CDN for static assets, auto-scaling for peak traffic.
Security: HTTPS, encryption at rest & in transit, server hardening, role-based admin access and data protection controls.

A compact technical annex (architecture diagram, SLA expectations, data protection measures) is available for procurement or partner review.

Testimonial

Naitwa Hassan, Mwenyekiti wa Zanzibar International Marathon.

Zanzibar International Marathon imefikia mwaka wake wa tano, na mwaka 2025 tumepiga hatua kubwa kwa kushirikiana na kampuni ya kidigitali ya YanaCorp. Ushirikiano huu umeibadilisha marathon yetu kutoka mifumo ya analog kwenda kwenye mifumo ya kisasa ya kidigitali ya kimataifa.

Kupitia YanaCorp, wakimbiaji sasa wanaweza kupata vyeti vyao kwa njia ya kidigitali, kufuatilia njia na mwendo wa mbio kupitia app, pamoja na kupata picha zao mara tu baada ya kukimbia. Mabadiliko haya yameongeza thamani kubwa ya marathon yetu na kuboresha sana uzoefu wa washiriki.

Tunashukuru sana YanaCorp kwa ushirikiano wao wenye tija, na tunatarajia kuendeleza ushirikiano huu katika miaka ijayo huku marathon yetu ikiendelea kukua kimataifa.

— [ The Chairman of the Zanzibar International Marathon, Mr. Hassan Ibrahim]

Visual assets & media

• High-resolution hero photo of the YanaCorp team or dashboard at the event (start/finish line).
• Short video showing live tracking/dashboard.
• Gallery: bib printing, YanaCorp banners, on-site kiosks, team in action.
• Dashboard screenshots.
• Sample digital certificate and a sample bib (image/PDF).
• Link to the technical annex (download or request form).

Why this project matters to partners & investors

This project is proof-positive that YanaCorp deploys secure, scalable, and community-focused technology under real operational pressure. It demonstrates:

• capability to deliver revenue-grade, mission-critical systems;
• a repeatable operational model for civic and commercial events;
• the company’s capacity to integrate software, infrastructure and on-site support;
• a strong public portfolio piece for partnerships with government, NGOs and commercial event organisers.

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