Deadline: 15-Jun-22
Dasra, in partnership with Bloomberg, Societal Platform, Stanford PACS, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) will be hosting a series of events under the Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2022 India, with the aim of enabling data agency for India’s most vulnerable communities.
The Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) India 2022 Empowerment Challenge aims to foster the growth of high-potential, data-focused solutions that can help them rebuild India. Through the D4GX initiative they hope to build data agency for the most vulnerable communities, and highlight the need for data empowerment through ongoing dialogues.
Categories
There are 4 categories for the 2022 Challenge:
- Data to Enable Learning to Livelihood: The pandemic gave a huge setback to the state of education. School closures meant that students from diverse backgrounds who are most in need of education are amongst the least likely to receive any services, further widening the gap of education for vulnerable communities.
- Data to enable health: India suffers from significant disease burden, ranking #1 globally for diabetes and tuberculosis, and a growing incidence of non-communicable diseases. Barriers in accessing health information and poor service delivery results in loss of life across preventable diseases.
- Data to enable urban sanitation: India is not equipped to take care of the sanitation needs of its ever growing urban population. Current realities state that over two-thirds of the 60 million households in urban India don’t have access to safe and adequate sanitation – the communities in these households, as well as the sanitation workers who deliver these services are economically marginalized, reside in urban slums, and are thereby relegated to a poor standard of urban services, including sanitation.
- Data to enable community resilience (rural & urban): India’s health and environment emergencies have helped reiterate an urgent need for innovative solutions solving for the resilience and empowerment of communities in urban and rural areas. It is evident that elected local governments, citizens, and technology can work together as they did to tackle the spread of COVID-19, to build communities which are better equipped to handle emergencies, and also feel empowered in their day-to-day life.
Award Information
- Winners will receive a design grant of INR 10 lakhs each.
- Shortlisted innovators will receive 1-1 mentorship support from the Bloomberg Engineering and Global Data teams in India.
- The cohort of innovation grant winners will also have the opportunity to engage with leading ecosystem players and learn from their best practices.
- Additionally, winners will have an opportunity to fundraise further through 1-1 dialogues with a curated group of philanthropists.
Key Initiatives
They have an exciting year planned with various key initiatives:
- A session on Data Empowerment at the Dasra Philanthropy Week
- A Mentoring program with experts in the Data space with their program partners
- Learning Lab sessions curated to further build capacities of organizations working on the ground
- The D4GX Challenge to support and empower NGOs with design grants
- Annual Conference with a culmination of learnings & conversations
- Key insight knowledge products, cohort building opportunities, one on one conversations and a lot more!
Eligibility Criteria
- The innovation should have passed the idea stage to either ready to deploy, or pilot, or proof of impact stage.
- The innovation must show potential for scale and financial investment.
- The core team should have strong organizational experience of scaling and sustaining social innovations in the past, especially those related to data or information technology.
- The project/innovation must align with one of the thematic tracks for the D4GX 2022 India Empowerment Challenge.
- Applicant should be a registered nonprofit organisation in India.
- The project/innovation must address at least one of the following barriers that impede data-led empowerment and build user-centricity towards data through the solution:
- Lack of universally acknowledged actionable metrics
- Vulnerable communities are not truly empowered
- Insufficient feedback loops enriching commons
- Siloed and inaccessible data supply
For more information, visit https://www.d4gxindia.com/