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DO School Connection Challenge: One-Year Start Up Fellowships for Social Entrepreneurs to Develop their Business Idea

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Deadline: 9 October 2015

Are you driven by a meaningful vision? Do you have a great idea but do not know how to get started? Apply now and become part of the DO School One-Year Program for aspiring impact entrepreneurs!

The DO School One-Year Program enables you to spend 10 weeks on campus in Berlin to develop your individual business plan and learn hands-on what it takes to be an entrepreneur by working on a real life group Challenge.

Fellowships cover all or part of tuition fee, travel costs to and from the DO School campus and the living and accommodation costs.

About the Program

This year´s Connection Challenge is posed by Messe Berlin, one of the world’s leading trade exhibition companies. The task of the Challenge is to capture, preserve and publish the expertise of the exhibitors and trade visitors present in new and exciting formats, e.g. by using new technologies or forms of storytelling.

The challenge aims to:

  • find a solution that extends the impact of a trade exhibition from a few days to the whole year
  • gather knowledge that so far goes untapped and make it accessible to more people
  • distil it so that it can be published in different formats later on and
  • connect new people worldwide to the Messe Berlin community

Eligibility Criteria

  • Emerging social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs aged 21 to 31 from around the world, with relevant interest and skills as well as an idea for a venture that they want to implement during DO School Fellowship can apply.
  • Successful candidates may come from, but are not restricted to the fields of storytelling technique such as writers, bloggers, videographers, journalists but also business analysts, educators, information architects, web and information designers.

How to Apply

  • Complete the applications for the one-year DO School program through the online application form available on the website.
  • Applicants must also fill the additional financial aid form during the application process.

For more information, please visit DO School Innovation.

TechChange Summer Fellowship Program 2016 for Non-US Citizens

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Deadline: 15 February 2016

The TechChange is currently inviting applications from recent graduates and rising college seniors based outside of the Unites States (also non-US citizens based in US with student visas or other legal working status) for its Summer Fellowship program 2016.

The fellows will get an opportunity to participate in practical training in web development along with a unique exposure to a range of applications and organizations using technology to tackle a variety of global challenges — from creating prosthetic limbs with a 3D printer to combating malaria with mobile devices.

What fellowship covers?

  • A $2,000 monthly stipend for 3 months.
  • Training in Javascript, Node.js, PHP, React, Flux, Backbone.js, database management, and more.
  • Field trips to organizations working in technology and social change.
  • A round-trip plane ticket to DC from a location within the US.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Applicants can be non-US citizens based in or outside the USA.
  • Applicants must be a current junior, senior, or a recent graduate.
  • Applicants should be available to spend 3 months period (6 June – 26 August 2016) in the USA.
  • Applicants should have at least one year of experience in computer science or web development.
  • Applicants must possess an interest in international relations, international development, humanitarian work, and social good.
  • Applicants must have passion to make a difference in the world – interest in international relations, international development, humanitarian work, and social good is a requirement.
  • Applicants must be willing to challenge themselves. Self-starting youth with willingness to have a little fun is must.

Application process

Applicants must fill the online application form available on the website.

For more information, please visit summer fellowship.

Nominations Open for Fidelity Networks’ Light Up The Web Competition 2015

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Deadline: 30 September 2015

The 2015-2016 Light Up The Web competition will begin accepting entries from June 30, 2015.  Applicants can nominate an organization.  When the competition begins accepting entries, the leaders you nominate will automatically be invited to participate in the competition.

The Light Up The Web competition is an annual contest intended to recognize and reward those who otherwise may not be able to afford excellent technical assistance, but are doing real good in the world.

Prizes

  • The Grand Prize will include a $1,000 package of technical hardware, a technical support consultation with a CIO, monthly tech support services, and a web design review and branding plan including social media.
  • Second Prize will include a one hour consultation, a social media strategic plan, and the creation or renovation of a blog or website.
  • Third Prize will include three one hour tech support service calls or a branding consultation and strategic plan.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Organizations wishing to enter must be one of the following types:
    • Community Service
    • Church/Religious
    • 501c3
    • Non-Profit
    • Not-For-Profit
    • Other Civic and Charitable Organizations
  • Past winners of this or similar contests sponsored by Fidelity Networks are not eligible to win.

Application Process

  • If you are in a leadership position within a qualifying organization, you should complete the entry form directly from the website.
  • If you are not in a leadership position but wish to nominate an organization, you should complete the nomination form available on the website.
  • All applications and nominations will be reviewed, and the appropriate entrants will be contacted with any questions or necessary clarification.

For more information, please visit Nominations Open.

ICT for Mountain Development Award 2015

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Deadline: 30 October 2015

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is currently calling for entries for the ICT for Mountain Development Award 2015. The award seeks to recognize ICT-enabled innovations, good practices, and applications that help promote mountain development and environmental conservation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region. The awards were open to individuals or organizations that are making innovative use of ICT to promote mountain development in the HKH region. The award reflects the increasing importance ICIMOD places on the potential of ICTs to improve the lives and livelihoods of mountain communities.

The award(s) will be announced on the occasion of International Mountain Day (IMD), 11 December 2015. Winners will receive prizes along with a certificate of recognition.

Award Categories

For this year, there will be awards in the current four thematic work areas of ICIMOD-

  1. livelihoods
  2. water and air
  3. ecosystem services
  4. geospatial solutions.

There could also be other categories such as ‘audience choice award’ and/or ‘special mentions award’. While the applicants are required to choose one of the broad categories, including ‘others’, they can focus on a specific work area while making the submission, e.g., mountain agriculture, disaster management, forestry, environment, mountain tourism, open data, inclusion, etc. The same work cannot be submitted in multiple categories.

Objectives

  • To recognize innovations in ICT for Development that can promote mountain development and environmental conservation;
  • To identify key institutions and practitioners working in ICT for Development and help build partnerships through ICIMOD’s regional programmes;
  • To showcase and share innovative work being done in the interest of mountain communities.

Past Awardees

ICT for Mountain Development Award 2014 were given to

  1. Avinash Jha and Sibjan Chaulagain from Nepal for ICT for Agriculture, an SMS-based mobile system that provides farmers with real-time information on agriculture.
  2. Jayprakash Panwar from India, for his Channel Mountain Communication (CMC), a development communication organization that generates and maintains a large collection of digital resources on the environment, development, culture and social issues in Uttarakhand State, India.
  3. Suleman Mazhar from Pakistan, for his Development of Geospatial Data-loggers for Monitoring Transhunamce Grazing Patterns to study climate change impacts on grazing communities. These cost-effective, power-optimized GPS collars were used to monitor and record the seasonal herding movements in northern Pakistan.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The call is open to anyone residing in any part of the world as long as the project case/work is relevant to the context of HKH. Individuals, entrepreneurs, INGOs , development practitioners and institutions are all eligible to submit their work.
  • All forms of Information Communication Technologies (mobile, radio, Internet, digital content, blogs, robotics, multimedia, etc.) relevant to mountain development and environmental conservation are eligible for submission.

How to Apply

  • Applicants will have to submit their work electronically through a web-based interface.
  • After filling out the online form, share a presentation/video clip about your project via email.
  • A panel of judges will select winners/awardees after an initial screening and evaluation process.
  • The winners/awardees will be announced on International Mountain Day (IMD), 11 December 2015.

For more information and to submit the online application form, please visit ICT Awards 2015.

The MasterCard Foundation Clients at the Centre Prize: Recognizing Innovative Financial Service Providers

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Deadline: 30 June 2015

The US$150,000 MasterCard Foundation Clients at the Centre Prize is looking for the most innovative, impactful and sustainable way in which a company puts “clients at the centre” to promote financial inclusion for poor people in the world’s developing countries. The Prize shines a light on best practices in financial services that make client needs and wants a priority. Companies or organizations that receive the Prize will ensure client voices are most influential in driving business strategies and decisions.

The MasterCard Foundation Clients at the Centre Prize is a US$150,000 cash award. There is also consulting support of up to US$50,000 to expand or reinforce client-centric practices within the winning organization. Between three and five finalist companies will each be invited to send a senior representative to present the organization’s proposals to peers and industry professionals at the 2015 MasterCard Foundation Symposium on Financial Inclusion, being held November 19-20 in Cape Town, South Africa. The audience will vote on who will be the eventual winner of the Prize.

Eligible Countries

Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cote Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Suriname, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Key Dates

  • April 27 – The MasterCard Foundation Clients at the Centre Prize opens for applications
  • June 30 – Deadline for all applications to be submitted
  • September 30 – Finalists notified
  • November 20 – Finalists present their proposals in Cape Town, South Africa and winner is announced.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Applicants must be registered organisations operating anywhere in the world, and direct providers of financial products and services to low-income populations in developing countries.
  • Applications must focus on their business practices that better the poor, most vulnerable and economically disadvantaged people within any of the developing countries eligible for the Prize
  • Applicants can be traditional financial service providers (commercial banks, microfinance institutions, or companies providing non-bank products and services such as leasing or insurance companies), or emerging players such as mobile network providers, IT or mobile-enabled technology companies, agribusinesses that provide financial services, or others. Please note that The MasterCard Foundation cannot partner with government agencies

How to Apply

Applicants can apply online through the website.

For more information, please visit MasterCard Foundation Call.

Call for Proposals: Research Training Partnership Programme – Ethiopia

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Deadline: Ongoing

Sida is currently accepting proposals for 5-year partnerships between Ethiopian and Swedish research institutions for its Research Training Programmes strengthening institutional research capacity in Ethiopia.

Grant as well as support also to a limited number of institutional cooperations with Swedish universities/research institutions in specified thematic areas according to the following are being discussed. Proposals shall cover the time period 1 July 2016 30 June 2021.

Thematic Areas

Based on AAU priorities, proposals can be developed in the following thematic areas:

  1. Economics and Management,
  2. Electrical Power and Control Engineering,
  3. International and Comparative Education
  4. Biotechnology

Guidelines for proposals

  • Programme proposals for research training and research supporting components may be developed by relevant departments/centres/units at AAU, in collaboration with departments/centres/units in Swedish universities/research institutions.
  • Programme proposals should include draft agreements/memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the universities included in the proposed partnerships. The Agreement/MoU should state how the Swedish university is willing to invest, both human and economic resources to make the partnership programmes function.
  • Research training proposals shall clearly define:
    • an outline of a scientifically sound research training programme;
    • how a true partnership will be developed;
    • how this will ensure high quality research training that will result in trained people in areas of national importance;
    • how comparative advantages of the two countries can be interfaced (national development goals of Ethiopia and mission/competence of Swedish universities to make PhD res earch usable for Ethiopia ́s growth and development);
    • how this can be achieved in a cost effective and sustainable way.
  • In addition, programme proposals may include
    • Research supporting components e.g. institution based competitive grants, institutional reform, quality assurance, access to and publication of scientific information, Research communication and dissemination, ICT, labs Or other components that strengthen the conditions for carrying out research and research training at AAU.

Eligibility Criteria

  • From each of the Swedish universities, a letter of endorsement from the Rector is required.
  • This should state that the Swedish university is willing to work with AAU to carry out partnership programmes based on the proposals submitted. In cases where the Swedish university/research institution is willing to invest both human and economic resources to make the partnership programmes function, this should be clearly indicated.
  • Programme proposals must be jointly written by coordinators from both AAU and Swedish partner universities/research institutions.
  • Coordinators must be employed by the respective AAU or Swedish universities.

Application Process

All Proposals must be sent via email. Proposal must include-

  1. A title page
  2. summary
  3. popular science description
  4. research supporting program
  5. CV
  6. Publication list
  7. Budget
  8. Partnership Agreement

For more information, please visit SIDA Call for Proposals.

AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards: Call for Nominations

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Deadline: 30 June 2015

TWAS, the African Union (AU) and national ministries of science and technology are currently inviting nominations for its currently established ‘AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards’. The awards are designed to recognize scientific excellence in their countries.

Award Categories

In each participating country, two USD5,000- prizes will be awarded each year in the categories of:

  1. ‘Life and earth sciences’, and
  2. ‘Basic sciences, technology and innovation’.

Participating Countries/Organizations

The participating organizations are:

  • Benin: Centre Beninois de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CBRST)
  • Burkina Faso: Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et Tecnologique (CNRST)
  • Cameroon: Cameroon Academy of Sciences
  • Egypt: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT)
  • Ghana: Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Guinea: Organisation Scientifique National de Stimulation de la Recherche en Guinee
  • Kenya: Directorate of Research Management and Development (DRMD), Kenya
  • Lesotho: Department of Science and Technology
  • Malawi: National Commission for Science and Technology
  • Nigeria: Nigerian Academy of Sciences
  • Senegal: National Academy of Science and Technology (ANSTS)
  • South Africa: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
  • Sudan: Sudan Institute for Natural Sciences (SIFNS)
  • Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences

Eligibility Criteria

  • Candidates eligible for the prizes should be no older than forty years of age at the time of winning the prize; hold at least a Master’s degree; have a good record of research publications in internationally recognized journals; be living and working in the country of the awarding organization for at least the previous three years.
  • African organizations intending to award AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards in their respective countries are required to sign an agreement of collaboration with TWAS, the AU and their national ministry of science and technology that outlines the rules and regulations governing the scheme.
  • Nominations of women scientists are particularly encouraged.

How to Nominate

  • The awarding organizations should send a complete profile of the selected nominees to TWAS, providing details on their achievements together with curriculum vitae and list of publications.
  • The prize would be presented to the awardees by a high-ranking public figure (e.g., head of state/government, minister of science and technology) at a special ceremony held each year on 9 September: Africa Union Day.

For more information, please visit TWAS Nominations.

Global Cleantech Innovation Programme for SMEs in South Africa

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Deadline: 15 May 2015

Submit your Applications for Global Cleantech Innovation Programme supporting start-ups in South Africa!

The Global Cleantech Innovation Programme is a global initiative of GEF (Global Environment Facility), UNIDO (the United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and TIA (the Technology Innovation Agency) in South Africa with the goal of promoting clean technology innovation and supporting SMEs and start-ups in developing & emerging economies. The initiative aims to spur local innovations in energy efficiency, renewable energy, waste beneficiation and water efficiency, maximizing every participant’s chances achieving sustainable commercial success.

The programme combines a competition and a business accelerator to offer participants progressing through the programme extensive mentoring, training, access to investors and opportunities to showcase their innovations to the media and the public. Participants stand a chance to win a cash award and national business support awards, in addition to a trip to Silicon Valley, CA, to participate in the Cleantech Open Global Forum.

Focus Areas

  1. Energy efficiency
  2. Renewable energy
  3. Waste beneficiation
  4. Water efficiency

Benefits

  • Extensive mentoring & training on core business related competence for start-ups and SMEs as well as specific technological, IP, Financial & marketing skills.
  • The possibility to liaise with potential investors and partners.
  • Opportunities to showcase their technological innovations to the media and the public.
  • A chance to win a monetary prize in addition to a fully sponsored trip to the USA to participate in the Cleantech Open Global Forum.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Applicants can be Innovative start-ups and small medium sized enterprises focused on commercialization of cutting edge and innovation clean technology solutions.
  • A start-up must be less than 3 years in existence but not yet profitable and an established SME as defined by the small business Act.
  • Applicants’s start-up can involve a two person team at minimum and at least one team member must be a South African citizen, resident or legal alien.

Evaluation Criteria

  • Technology innovation should support mitigation of green house gas IGHGI emissions through: energy efficiency, water efficiency, renewable energy, waste beneficiation.
  • Technology innovation should be new, ground breaking clean technology, incorporate absorption of existing clean technologies or use existing commercially available technologies for unique applications.
  • Technology innovation has protectable intellectual property (IP)
  • Technology innovation should support improvement in profitability or competitiveness.
  • Technology development must be at proof of concept stage up to pre-commercialization.
  • Submitted application must demonstrate a feasible concept and product.
  • Potential for commercialization has been identified.

How to Apply?

Applications must be submitted through online system.

For more information, Please visit Clean Technology.

Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) 2015

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Category 2: Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) 2015

Deadline: 15 April 2015

The Global Development Network (GDN) is currently accepting proposals from researchers in developing countries and transition economies to submit research proposals in the theme of Agriculture for Sustainable Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for a new ‘Green Revolution’ for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD).

The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) is a competitive research grant program under the Global Development Awards Competition 2015. The ORD program is administered by GDN and supported by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan. This program identifies and funds outstanding research proposals in developing countries and transition economies with high potential for excellence in research and clear policy implications for addressing development issues.

The awards will be given to the organization(s)/researcher(s) whose proposals to undertake research in any one of the three research sub-themes (described below) holds the greatest promise for improving our understanding of development issues and puts forth clear, articulate and well researched policy implications to address relevant development problems. The winning projects will receive grants worth US$ 45,000. Finalists will be invited to travel and present their proposals at GDN’s 16th Annual Global Development Conference to be held in Morocco from 11-13 June, 2015.

Research Topics

The main theme of the Awards competition is ‘Agriculture for Sustainable Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for a new ‘Green Revolution’. Research Proposals for the Award will be considered in following four inter-related sub-themes:

  1. Food security and nutrition
  2. Environmental challenges and natural resources management
  3. Economic, social and political transformations: effects and impacts of agricultural development
  4. Financial and technological innovations: which new tools for the next “Green Revolution”

Prizes

  • First prize US$ 30,000
  • Second prize US$ 10,000
  • Third prize US$ 5,000
  • Travel and expenses for one representative from each three short-listed proposals (ideally the principal investigator) will be covered by GDN.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Applicants can be researchers from developing countries and transition economies with the requirement that they need to be citizens or permanent residents of these countries.
  • Citizens of developing countries and transition economies currently residing in a developed country are only eligible to apply if they have been living in the developed country for no more than five years as of 16 April 2015.
  • The upper age limit for all applicants is 45 years as of 15, April 2015. Individuals above 45 years of age as of 15 April 2015 are not eligible to apply.
  • Researchers (especially, female researchers) below the age of 35 years (as of 15, April 2015) are strongly encouraged to apply either as Principal Researchers or as part of the team.
  • The proposal should not be receiving or scheduled to receive funds from other sources to be eligible for consideration for the ORD unless it is clearly explained how the additional funds provided by the ORD would reinforce the existing funds for successful completion of the research.
  • Staff members of multilateral and bilateral organizations (The World Bank, IMF, IADB, UN agencies, DFID, AusAID, etc.) are not eligible to apply.
  • Previous and current employees of GDN or its RNPs are not eligible to apply up till 5 years from the completion of their tenure. Previous GDN Board Members, project mentors and members of evaluation teams are not eligible to apply.
  • Similar proposals or papers resulting as products from full or partial GDN funded activities (Global Research Projects and other competitions such as Regional Research Competitions, Global Research Competitions etc.), cannot be submitted for this competition.
  • Past ORD winners and finalists are not eligible to apply with the same or similar research proposal. Additionally, winners are not eligible to apply for a period of 3 years subsequent to their submission of a successful proposal.
  • Past and current ORD reviewers are not eligible to take part in the competition.

How to Apply?

  • The submission and the required documents must be submitted as electronic files at GDN’s Online Submissions Platform only.
  • Research proposals should be submitted only in the designated application template.
  • Applicants can download the proposal template available on the GDN’s website.
  • Submitted documents include – a document providing the profile of your organization (if any) and a single document containing the CV’s of all team members related to the research project.
  • Submissions should not exceed 20 pages. Format should be in Calibri, 11- point font with single line spacing and one inch margins.
  • An organization cannot submit more than one application.
  • Submissions must be submitted in the English language only.

For more information, please visit Global Development.

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GCE Round 2015- Enable Merchant Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments

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Deadline: 13 May 2015

Grand Challenges in Global Health is seeking novel solutions that promote adoption and use of mobile payments (or digital transactions) by merchants that serve those living on less than $2 USD a day in developing regions.

Examples of merchants include:

  • Individual merchants that provide goods and services such as produce and airtime
  • Shops and points of sale, from small vendors up to and including super-market chains

Focus Areas

  1. Devices: Apply or create new technology for exchange of mobile/digital funds at the time of sale.
  2. Software: Apply or create software and/or applications that enable mobile transactions by merchants.
  3. Business models: Develop alternative business and market models and/or processes that meet the needs of sellers as they transact.

Preference will be given to solutions that support the following objectives:

  • Scalable, easy to use, interoperable (solutions should enable mobile payments between buyers and sellers that choose to use competing mobile money providers), reliable, low cost, secure, portable coverage (users should be able to take their mobile financial service history and mobile funds with them when moving between providers) and transparent.
  • Relevant to the cultural and regulatory context in one of the following 8 countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania or Uganda.

A few examples of work that would be considered for funding:

  • Novel methods that incentivize merchants to accept digital transactions.
  • Novel devices that enable fast, secure and accurate transactions by people who are illiterate.
  • Novel practices or technologies that enable merchants to make and accept real time transactions at time of purchase in environments with limited or intermittent service connectivity.
  • Business models that enable merchants to make extremely affordable transactions on robust, secure, commercial-quality infrastructure.
  • Novel practices or technologies that allow sellers to easily understand, communicate and respond to fees at the time of payment processing.
  • Novel practices or technologies with low or zero new investment and usage cost that promote viral adoption of mobile financial services among small sellers.

Funding will not be considered for:

  • Ideas that are not merchant focused. This includes ideas that address mobile money adoption generally and don’t have a specific focus on adoption by merchants serving the poor.
  • Ideas in which the mobile money solution could be viewed as ancillary to the focus of the project. For example, ideas that focus on the implementation of a mobile healthcare device for providers and the ability to transact would be a secondary value-add.
  • Ideas that are unrealistic and/or unsustainable.
  • Projects that do not clearly consider the current context of available financial systems and infrastructure for the poor. For example, ideas that require expensive devices.
  • Solutions to sign up a large number of merchants to accept mobile payments without a realistic approach to provide sustained support to those merchants.
  • Ideas that have a limited or unrealistic path to broad use, including those that rely on long-term financial subsidies.
  • Ideas that simply replicate or repackage payment processes and ideas from developed countries.
  • Approaches that present significant data safety risks, relative to the risks inherent in developed world mobile payment systems.

For more information about this challenge, please visit Grand Challenge Merchant.

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