AI4Dev 2020 Challenge: Leveraging Technology to Achieve UN SDGs

Deadline: 17-Nov-20

Applications are open for AI for Development (AI4Dev) 2020 Challenge that aims to identify great ideas in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and utilize its impact on 4 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Arab & African states.

AI4Dev is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Facilitated by NilePreneurs, in partnership with UN Agencies and other local and international organizations.

Goals

With this challenge, targeting AI integrated solutions for one of the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:

Goal 2 – Help in:
- Wasting less food;
- Achieving food security and improved nutrition;
- Promoting sustainable agriculture.
Goal 3 – Help in:
- Ensuring healthy lives;
- Promoting well-being for all at all ages.
Goal 8 – Help in:
- Creating job opportunities for youth;
- Promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth;
- Promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all.
Goal 9 – Help In:
- Fostering innovation;
- Building resilient infrastructure;
- Promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization.

Prizes

If applicants can innovatively provide a solution for one of the targeted SDGs, the idea will be selected to receive mentorship and training from experts in the field, guidance in developing prototypes and exposure while presenting to industry experts, in the attendance of representatives from UN, and multinational organizations.
Above all of that, 4 winners will be granted prizes valued as follows:
- 1ST Place Winner: 5K USD;
- 2ND Place Winner: 3K USD;
- 3RD Place Winner: 2K USD;
- 4TH Place Winner: 2K USD.

Selection Criteria

If applicants are a team of not less than 2 and have what it takes to find and develop AI innovations in one of the above tracks; Apply Now with your idea for a chance to win the challenge and change lives.
Problem Relevance: Does your idea relate to at least one the four stated tracks of SDGs and applies to at least the country of submission?
Solution Urgency: Is your product needed urgently and will impact vulnerable groups and beneficiaries?
Solution Scalability: Is the solution you are offering scalable with minimal investments needed in new geolocations? Wondering if you have what it takes to be a part of the change and become acknowledged by ITU as an emerging innovator in the Arab & African states.
Team Requirements: Are you a diverse team of not less than 2 with at least 1 female member, and have the business and technical skills needed to move forward with your idea?
Use of AI: Is AI the core of your idea and is being used innovatively as an integral part of the solution?
Data Acquisition: Is the data planned sufficient to sustain your model? Do you know how to acquire your needed data?