AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT (AFD) DIGITAL CHALLENGE 2021
Application Deadline May 26, 2021
Agence francaise de developpement calls applications for AFD Digital challenge 2021. For the fifth consecutive year, the Agence francaise de development is supporting high-impact digital actors in Africa.
For the latest edition, the AFD Digital challenge aims to combine the challenges of the digital transition with climatic protection and biodiversity, in line with Goal 13 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
AFG Digital challenge has been rewarding the most innovative African startups, associations and research centers in terms of digital technology and solving sustainable development goals on the continent since 2016.
Since inception, 35 African start-ups have benefited from financial support and coaching to scale up their businesses.
The digital revolution is transforming the African continent, driven by a new a new generation of entrepreneurs who combine innovation, economics performance and social and/or environmental impact.
When addressing biodiversity issue, information and communication technologies are most of the time, considered through their negative impacts (infrastructure, electronic waste, data storage).
BENEFITS
- The opportunity of winning € 20,000
- International visibility and recognition
- Customized support
THEMES
Start ups, associations and digital solutions on the themes presented below are eligible.
1 Reducing the digital footprints:
- Digital tools and services for the reduced energy consumption of networks and data centers, eco-construction and tools used to reduced the consumption terminals and boxes.
- Eco-design of digital equipment and services
- Recycling of electronic waste
2 Innovation to build a sustainable economy:
- Digital technology to reduce the impact of land, air, sea and river transport.
- Digital technology to promote sustainable territories
- Digital services for the dissemination of best environmental and climate practices for the public sector, business and citizens
- Digital services for green finance
- Digital tools and services for agro-ecology, traceability and limiting agro-ecology, traceability and limiting agricultural losses.
REQUIREMENT
- Open to innovative African startups;
- Your project is related to one of the themes presented above and detailed in the rules;
- Your project is already on the market and is in the seed /launch phase;
- Your project has a legal structure as well as sustainable and autonomous business model;
- Digital technology is at the heart of your business.
Click here to apply for the Agence Française De Développement (AFD) Digital Challenge 2021