Deadline: 15-Jul-20
Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) call for proposal is to provide funding to innovators and companies that have artificial intelligence and health technologies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.
Focus Areas
TIA requires funding applications in these focal areas:
- Artificial Intelligence focal areas:
- Prescreening
- Testing
- Devices
- Demand Supply Matching and logistics
- Monitoring Social Distancing
- Epidemiology
- Contact tracing
- Health technologies focal areas:
- Novel advances in personal protection equipment
- Novel disinfection technologies to make hospitals and public and working spaces safe
- Digital health technologies
Eligibility Criteria
You qualify to apply if:
- Your proposed technology addresses the abovementioned focal areas; Your technology promotes local production and manufacturing, thus contributing to job creation;
- Your technology demonstrates a viable, feasible and sustainable business case;
- You have proven, validated and tested that your technology innovation works; and
- Your technology can be fully developed and functional for market uptake.
For more information, visit https://www.tia.org.za/blog/2020/06/15/covid-19-call-for-proposal-artificial-intelligence-and-health-application/