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FARMIS is an innovation aimed at getting small scale farmers to adopt comprehensive record-keeping for their farming enterprises. This gives them bargaining power to engage with and access services from financial institutions, input providers and sources of technical information, boosting production, increasing income and nutrition options.

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eCompliance has dramatically increased adherence among tuberculosis (TB) patients who have to take up to 75 doses under observation of a health worker, over 6 months. eCompliance consists of a 7” Android tablet connected to a commercial finger print reader. The tablet has a SIM card, which communicates data to a server every 20 minutes, which then collates it in an Electronic Medical Record System (EMR). Every patient is registered in the tablet with fingerprints. The entire treatment algorithm is built in the tablet. When a patient misses a scheduled meeting with the health worker, an alert is sent to everyone including the patient (with prior permission), health worker and supervisor. The worker has to phone or meet the patient within 48 hours, provide the dose, provide further counseling and convince the patient to re-join the therapy. This meeting is recorded with simultaneous fingerprints of the patient and worker. eCompliance also records worker attendance and eliminates absenteeism. It also records geo-locations of patients/ workers. EMR collates all data and generates all reports automatically. eCompliance can be applied to any disease that needs long term care.

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Educating and supporting people with financial literacy, ennota.com is a financial management application that empowers micro and small business owners in developing countries to grow. This is done by offering a simple solution with a tool providing a financial overview of a business as well as coaching modules. The product includes various levels of financial literacy and adapts to the user’s level. This integrated education in finance enables users to advance their knowledge and use the application fully. The app is cloud-based, cross-platform, and accessible from any device connected to the internet. It is designed to promote collaboration (with co-workers / partners or even an accountant), all the while using banking level standards to secure all transactions.

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FrontlineSMS is a desktop software created to lower barriers to positive social change using mobile technology. By leveraging basic tools already available to most organizations, including those in ‘last-mile’ settings — computers and low-cost modems — FrontlineSMS enables instantaneous two-way communication to any mobile handset. It’s easy to implement, simple to operate, and best of all, the software is free; you only pay for the messages you send. This award-winning open-source software has been downloaded over 150,000 times since its first prototype in 2005, and helps organizations all over the world overcome communications barriers. FrontlineCloud lets you easily send, receive, and manage SMS messages and data from anywhere in the world. FrontlineCloud makes life easier with a quick set-up process, more ways to connect to mobile networks, and all of the sophisticated data management available through the cloud. It brings the convenience of the web to your text message communications, all for a low monthly rate.

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GiftedMom is a social enterprise aiming to improve maternal health using last mile mobile technologies. Combining SMS and voice reminders with a GPS-integrated tricycle transportation, the project aims to end preventable maternal and infant deaths. Using a customized SMS notification and voice education platform, the solution leverages on the high amount of mobile devices in Africa and provides antenatal care and vaccination reminders to pregnant women and new mothers respectively.

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InSight is a simple mobile money management tool that enables individuals and micro-businesses to perform daily accounting and cash management on their cell phones. Available on SMS, voice, web, and Android platforms in eight different languages, InSight allows users to track their finances and learn budgeting and savings in context, helping to teach financial literacy while also encouraging responsible spending and savings habits. InSight’s real-time cash flow data is then captured in the InVenture information database and aggregated with 36 different demographic, behavioral, and transactional variables in InVenture’s dynamic credit-scoring algorithm to generate actionable risk assessments, quantifying each user’s ability to successfully repay a loan. This information is then shared with lenders to help individuals qualify for affordable financial services and credit products. InSight leverages mobile technology and data analytics to help individuals build financial identities and access to the formal economy, while also helping financial institutions mitigate credit risk and grow their portfolios safely and sustainably.

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LishaBora provides input and practices, and co-manages outputs for Kenya’s smallholder dairy farmers to enable more informed farm management and unlock banking and credit solutions. By sourcing quality-assured dry-feeds and animal health products with delivery to the farmer, we improve access to inputs and reduce costs for smallholders. By engaging our customers with forage management and best farming practices, we ensure their cow’s productivity is not hindered by forage shortages or preventable diseases. To scale our high-quality feeds, forage management and best farming practices, LishaBora works with dairy traders, representing the informal market where 70% of milk sales are generated. By formalizing and digitizing their milk collection process through LishaBora’s android application, we improve market access for smallholders, and provide no-risk, interest-free credit to farmers. LishaBora is the only feed company working throughout the dairy value chain, addressing the systemic issues of low milk production, high input cost, and low point of sale that keep smallholders trapped in poverty.

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OpenIR is an ICT (information communication technology) that maps the environmental risks and features, which are revealed by infrared satellite data. This includes algorithms for flood risk map generations and a web map application. OpenIR’s initial validation case will take place in Indonesia. At the same time, OpenIR collaborates with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to determine additional validation and use case scenarios. OpenIR also works towards interfacing flood risk maps with crowd maps and allow global access to this data. OpenIR’s initial component is a geo-server system that serves visible and infrared spectrum data into web map layers. Currently, the team runs tests on processing and serving data in-house and/or using data from Google’s Earth Engine that will soon be available. The team created a prototype of a Risk Map Builder, which automatically generates a flood risk map for any given area. The goal is to expand the resolution based on additional inputs. OpenIR exists as a prototype that is currently undergoing user testing and data validation.

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Pocket FM is a broadcasting system, which serves as an interface between internet and radio. The device has been adapted to situations and regions where communication is difficult, especially for those cut off from vital information including refugee camps and areas with civil wars. The portable transmitter airs radio programs over a radius of about eight kilometers and can be remote-controlled by SMS or the internet. Powered by a small solar panel, the solution requires almost no maintenance and can run practically without interruption.

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Developed by innovators in Cameroon, Safe Travel is a free phone app which works as a monitoring system called ‘traveler’. It is designed for passengers and users offering a platform and data system showing a traveler’s location. This is used to notify families and road safety or emergency teams if a traffic incident occurs as it offers the possibility to also check reckless driving it can subsequently reduce the number of death on highways.

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Safecity is a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behaviour that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions.

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The SOLARKIOSK is a solar-powered autonomous business hub. It utilizes solar power to provide rural off-grid communities with sustainable energy and energy-related products and services such as battery charging, communication, refrigeration, and an unprecedented access to technology and information. A SOLARKIOSK uses the energy it produces as a "mini smart grid". The structure is a modular and expandable kit-of-parts that can be easily transported and deployed in remote off-grid areas. Globally, 1.5 million people live without electricity access - 800 million of them are in Africa. Their annual energy expenditures amount to approx. 30 billion USD - about 120 USD per household. The majority of their energy is provided by unsustainable and dirty fuels despite abundant sunshine. The SOLARKIOSK addresses energy needs and spurs sustainable economic development of rural off-grid communities worldwide. SOLARKIOSK works at the bottom-of-the-pyramid and utilizes an inclusive business model. The franchise model enables a local kiosk owner to meet the needs and challenges of their rural off-grid community by enabling and empowering it.

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The Water Energy Hubs (WE!Hubs) are decentralized, solar-operated energy hubs that work independently of grid-connection and reliably supply remote communities with renewable energy, energy services and safe drinking water. For a small fee, people can rent portable lanterns, lamps and batteries that replace the widespread kerosene lamps, which are more and more expensive and harmful to human health and nature. Additionally, mobile phones can be recharged at the WE!Hubs. A cyber café provides access to computer services and the internet. Thanks to a water treatment unit, people can also get clean drinking water at a fair and affordable price. An intense training and mentoring program on Business management and Social skills fosters local small-scale entrepreneurship.