Edition 2018
Category 'iStandOut'
Access Agriculture – Overcoming the language barrier
Access Agriculture
To promote innovations in sustainable agriculture and rural enterprises through capacity development and South-South exchange of quality farmer-to-farmer training videos in local languages.
Website: https://www.accessagriculture.org/
The winner receives a credit line of 10.000 euro to be used for (research)activities towards further development of a career (participation in conferences, training courses, etc.)
Category 'iStartUp'
WisePocket
Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
The app WisePocket, a spin-off of the VUB & Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. Using interaction and gamification, this mobile app wants to make healthcare campaigns more effective and quantify their efficiency.
The winner will get the opportunity to do an internship in a Belgian incubator to the value of 25.000 euro
Category 'iChoose'
Eight
EIGHT an initiative which allows residents of a town in Uganda to become “an agent of change” themselves through mobile money transfers without conditions.
The winner receives a cash prize of 5.000 euro.
Category 'iStandOut'
CERHIS – Connected Electronic Records – Hospital Information System
CERHIS is an information system adapted to health structures located in low resources environments. It works on Android tactile tablets and replaces the former paper-based files and records. Its objective is to improve the quality of the information collected in health structures to ensure better patient care, better management of the health structure and the efficient production of a reliable sanitary information.
Website: http://cerhis.org/
Geomonitoring of Savings Groups in Maasai Rural Areas
Trias East-Africa
The project aims to optimise the functioning of the Village Community Banks (VICOBAs) established by Trias and its member based organisations (MBOs) by the use of digital collection of dynamic real time data and the intensive use of (geographical) monitoring tools.
Website: https://www.trias.ngo/en/
Using Machine Learning to Analyse Radio Content in Uganda
United Nations Pulse Lab Kampala, Eddie Sefuluya Mukooyo
This project consists in analysing public radio content to close the gap between the population living in rural areas of Uganda and humanitarian and development practitioners. Make public radio content accessible for the SDGs and humanitarian action.
Website: https://www.unglobalpulse.org/projects/pilot-studies-using-machine-learning-analyse-radio-content-uganda-2017
Category 'iStartUp'
Smart Glasses
Iristick, African Drive
Using smart glasses, this projects aims to make higher quality and more efficient patient care in rural healthcare centres accessible and affordable, both by providing online, real-time remote assistance by experts, as well as supporting hands free digital guidance during execution.
WikiTropica
Institute for Tropical Medicine, InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia
The Institute for Tropical Medicine (Antwerp) collaborates with InSTEDD iLab to achieve a freely available collaborative knowledge management platform in the field of tropical medicine and international health, based on the contributions of experts worldwide.
Category 'iChoose'
Developing Internet of Things sensors for Benin
Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
This project supports the IRHOB through the development and test of a low-cost sensor system for marine applications, that measures, stores and broadcasts measurements to an IoT-account.
The Geo-Observer Network
Mountains of the Moon University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, KU Leuven
The objective of this project is to collect first-hand information on recent disasters through a network of citizen reporters in the Rwenzori.
All three winners received their prizes from Minister Alexander De Croo during the Innovation Fair & Awards Ceremony that were organized by the Royal Museum for Central Africa on October 4, 2018 (Belgium).
Photos (©Kris Pannecoucke)
