Deadline: 24 July, 2022
The challenge is designed to recognise the impressive work of community nonprofits, businesses and social enterprises in Africa.
Benefits
- Five winning teams will receive support to develop and scale their solutions
- One team will receive the grand prize to visit Ericsson’s headquarters in Sweden to pitch the team’s solution and interact with the entrepreneurial community
Eligibility
- Open to nonprofits and social enterprises in Africa
- Businesses carrying out innovations that lead to social impact may also apply
- Organisations must submit social solutions within the foundation’s key focus areas, namely, health, entrepreneurship, environment and leadership
- Nonprofits or social enterprises must be registered with the government agency in charge of organisations’ registry in their respective countries
- All submissions must be innovative solutions that use technology or digital systems as major tools in driving community impact
- Evidence of claims must be provided through web links, videos, pictures and any other online presence
- Organisations must have been in existence for at least two years
- All social innovations must be at the growth stage and must have been tested or implemented on direct beneficiaries
- Evidence of claim must be provided through pictures, news releases, etc
- All social innovations must have been implemented within the past two years
To enter and for more information, click here.
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