BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20200415T130000Z DTEND:20200415T153000Z RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20200419T153000Z LOCATION:Online TRANSP: OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 UID: DTSTAMP:20240328T153534Z SUMMARY:50K USD Prizes for #Africa vs Virus CHALLENGE DESCRIPTION:The AfDB Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab is organising the #AfricaVsVirus Challenge as an opportunity to create tech and non-tech solutions to tackle some of the most pressing challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic. We are calling on socially committed citizens worldwide, problem solvers, creative minds, health experts, programmers, graphic and web-designers to come together in a 72-hour digital collaborative process to bring about ground-breaking solutions addressing some of the social and economic challenges posed by the coronavirus.\nFollowing the #AfricaVsVirus Challenge the best solutions will be selected and will be fully implemented with partners and donors in Africa and worldwide. \n20 ideas will be selected to participate in the Seedstars Investment Readiness Program, a one month educational program that will further support the ideas in getting to MVP. In addition, the top 3 ideas will be eligible for over 50K USD in in-kind prizes and other prizes to help further support their idea. \nRegistration Deadline\n15th April 2020 ... Join Now!\nHow does the Challenge work?\nThe #AfricaVsVirus Challenge will take place from April 17-19, 2020 online. Participants will have 72hs to collaborate in teams and build solutions to specific challenges. We will start with a kick-off session on April 16 at 18:30 GMT+1 and end on April 19 at 18:30 GMT+1.\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The AfDB Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab is organising the #AfricaVsVirus Challenge as an opportunity to create tech and non-tech solutions to tackle some of the most pressing challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic. We are calling on socially committed citizens worldwide, problem solvers, creative minds, health experts, programmers, graphic and web-designers to come together in a 72-hour digital collaborative process to bring about ground-breaking solutions addressing some of the social and economic challenges posed by the coronavirus.
\nFollowing the #AfricaVsVirus Challenge the best solutions will be selected and will be fully implemented with partners and donors in Africa and worldwide.
\n20 ideas will be selected to participate in the Seedstars Investment Readiness Program, a one month educational program that will further support the ideas in getting to MVP. In addition, the top 3 ideas will be eligible for over 50K USD in in-kind prizes and other prizes to help further support their idea.
\n15th April 2020 ... Join Now!
\nThe #AfricaVsVirus Challenge will take place from April 17-19, 2020 online. Participants will have 72hs to collaborate in teams and build solutions to specific challenges. We will start with a kick-off session on April 16 at 18:30 GMT+1 and end on April 19 at 18:30 GMT+1.
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