The project aims to build a hub to address the fall in fish protein supply. The hub will comprise an online platform called the “AquaHub” that will link fish farmers to technicians, extension service providers, and suppliers. These farm technicians will provide farm services like fish holding facility (ponds, tanks, and cages) construction, fish health, and diagnosis services. Actors who supply fish farm inputs such as fish feed, fingerlings, bloodstocks, and equipment will also be made available on the platform to ease the process of fish production. The application will also connect fish farmers to buyers. The App is going to generate a database of all fish farms and buyers in the regions of all users to make trading easy. Delivery service providers will also be allowed to provide services to both fish farmers and buyers. The fish farmers section of the application will have manuals and video demonstrations of building fish farm and the best aquaculture practices available for the use of the fish farmers. This will help anyone who want to go into fish farming to acquire the necessary information needed. Basic fish disease control guides will also be made available on the platform. Aquaculture research and demonstration community will be set up to aid the team to find scientifically proven and profitable fish farming methods to feed the online platform. The research community will involve a team of researchers who will be reviewing existing literature and manuals on aquaculture to feed the online platform for the consumption of the users of the application. Market analysis will also be conducted periodically to create information on the prices of fish products and inputs for easy and transparent trading.

AquaHub

Ghana

Harrison Kwaku Kyenkyehene

Bond Energy is working to commercialize oceanic brine mining technology to extract valuable elements from the ocean allowing for profitable desalination. Our mission is to provide communities all over the world with clean, affordable drinking water without the need for government subsidies. We do this by tapping into multiple value streams via harmful waste brine that is typically dumped back into the ocean. Our technology extracts valuable elements throughout its process including hydrogen, potassium, lithium, magnesium, oceanic CO2 pollution, and of course clean water. What is unique about our technology, is its massive scalability and the diversified value streams that we are tapping into.

Bond Energy

United States

Brian Van Bavel

An application that allows users primarily Africans to book doctor's appointments and also save patients' data on the cloud, so patients' medical history could be accessed at any health facility, and the very long wait time(3hrs+) before seeing the doctor is eliminated. The application gives the exact time the patient would see the doctor, so the need to go early to the hospital to queue is eliminated and the period could be used for other productive things. The patient would also be notified if an hospital is fully booked for the day. The hospital would document/upload the patient's file to the cloud, and the records can only be accessed from the cloud after providing an OTP generated by the user/patient on his app thereby ensuring the protection of patients' data.

BooQiT

Nigeria

Idris Adekunle Oladosu

DeCarbon Solution is a youth-led student organization with the vision "Knowledge, Opportunity and Collaboration” to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air due both to human activity and natural sources which exacerbates the greenhouse effect, translating to environmental conservation. To create tangible action, we at DeCarbon Solutions have taken three different threads of action, each targeting different areas of necessity to create a community were carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced to net zero before 2030.

DeCarbon Solutions

Nigeria

Obadare Adenekan

Imagine a fridge that only requires minimal energy, withstands market conditions, is easy to monitor temperature, and is cheaper than existing refrigeration systems. Yes, it exists, we built a prototype! Frigo is a locally-assembled cooling system that works on evaporative cooling. It does not use compressors like conventional and solar refrigerators; hence it is cheaper and cleaner. We even built it with an IoT system that allows users to monitor the temperature and relative humidity to provide the best condition for products. Because it is locally assembled, we can build varying sizes, ranging from a bedside-sized fridge to a cold room-sized system at inexpensive rates, which is particularly important for our target audience. While we obviously built a ‘cool’ way to tackle food loss, we wanted to be sure if smallholder farmers and market women needed it. So, we went to the market to gain their feedback. They were excited! They have suffered for years with issues of food spoilage without any affordable means of preserving their food, we are solving that huge problem for them and they can’t even wait for us to launch. With Frigo, we are reducing food wastage by 80%, we double the income of the market women, we provide employment by hiring staff to manage our operations, we reduce malnutrition and we also make the environment safer by reducing methane (a by-product of food wastage).

Frigo - A 'cool' way to prevent food loss

Nigeria

Yusuf Babatunde

Grow Your Own is developing autonomous farms to upcycle waste organic matter into edible food at scale using fungi. We use IoT sensors and robotics paired with cloud-based data analytics and automated environmental control to optimise the growing process of our crops, maximising the rate at which organic waste can be reprocessed into food. Fungi, as decomposers, are extremely effective at breaking down and rapidly reprocessing all sorts of organic matter into delicious, edible mushrooms - given the right conditions. Almost any organic matter - from coffee grounds to cardboard and everything in between - can be used as a growing medium. At its core, our idea revolves around our growing environment control software, FungOS. This software is uses a variety of actuators and sensors to regulate the conditions in growing environments whilst also collecting data. Automatically gathering granular data at all stages of growth, from seeding to harvest, and the use of cloud-based data analytics enables us to optimise the growth process and its parameters. Taking a data-centric approach allows the variables of the growing process to be "solved", identifying the conditions needed to maximise yields and nutritional content while minimising growth times. By building up an extensive dataset on growth parameters of our crops we can grow the perfect mushroom, everytime - and with practically no human labour involved.

Grow Your Own Ltd

United Kingdom

Andrey Lopantsev

The main idea is that what if soil could enrich itself, through microbes that boost crop yields and then those microbes were themselves grown sustainably, in compact, sunlight-fueled bioreactors. The self-reliant fertilizer will efficiently split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas by pairing silicon (the material from which solar panels are made) with catalyst coatings. The hydrogen gas can be stored on site and used to drive fuel cells, providing a way to store and use power that originates from the sun. Taking nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce ammonia and phosphorus both are powerful fertilizers and will be a great use. This will let bacteria to feed and reproduce, from this process bacteria will laden a somewhat yellowish liquid that can be spread onto the fields as pesticides with lesser damage. Bio fertilizer will be able to protect crops in order to ascertain a better harvest. The second method is to let the microbes which will let bacteria to secrete ammonia directly this will be an alternative for mainstream for chemical fertilizer. The surface of the earth is made of eight elements which include oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium. So this concept is not harmful by any means.

Helix Bio

Pakistan

Nayab Zahra

The thrice patent-pending Hubly Drill —innovative both at the bedside and in the OR—includes a drill with (1) automatic stop, based on pressure-sensing current-monitoring, to provide brain plunge prevention but restart as needed; (2) LED pressure indicator during drilling for increased control while drilling; (3) battery power—rather than wired, electric power as in the operating room to turn burr hole placement into a one-handed procedure, increasing drilling stability; (4) unique drill bits which provide additional mechanical plunge prevention as well as visual pressure indication and increased drill stability. This drill comes in a kit which additionally includes (5) hardware catheter guidance utilizing the proven Ghajar guide technique, which has been proven to facilitate accurate freehand placement; (6) a guide hub to stabilize the drill angle during burr hole placement; and (7) a variety of drill bit sizes for use in craniotomy and orthopedic procedures such as hip replacement and total reverse shoulder surgery. Larger companies have tried and failed to offer autostop but have failed because they’ve relied on pressure sensing rather than Hubly current monitoring technology. Now, any attempts to copy this current-monitoring technology will be patent infringement.

Hubly Surgical

United States

Casey Grage

The Kanga-Care is a low cost locally knitted double layered premature carrier that embraces the Kangaroo skin to skin mother care technique of generating and maintaining warmth. The position in which a baby is held using the Kanga-Care improves on its breathing patterns, stimulates breast milk production and promotes mother to child bonding. It is uniquely fitted with vital reading sensors that can detect up to 3 vital signs : body temperature, pulse rate and oxygen saturation and incase of any derangement, an alarm is set to ring automatically to alert the mother to seek early and timely care hence preventing complications. It leverages the power of micro-processors to automate the process of checking and maintaining infant vitals. It is connected to a phone application that enables remote monitoring of vital signs. At its side pocket is a mini-oxygen cylinder for premature babies that go into respiratory distress especially during referral of these babies to prevent long term complications of oxygen deprivation like permanent brain damage. With the Kanga-Care, stable premature babies can be managed from home hence less stay in hospital, infection prevention and less expenses incurred. Unstable premature babies can easily be referred and even rural health centers without NICUs can manage these premature babies.

KangaCare

Uganda

Comfort Peace Ayikoru

In Yemen, because of the war, there are many women who have lost their husbands and there is no one to support them. I thought of doing a project that would help them earn money, help themselves and their families, and bring out creativity and talent. The idea is to train these women on new and creative manual works, and this work is suitable for their educational level, and this enables women to integrate into society, eliminate poverty and the ability to industry and innovation, and give these women experience in these areas, which enables them to open their own business and rely on themselves. Examples of these handicrafts The art of resin, through which they can make many things such as accessories, pots, artifacts, and medals

Ladies training handcrafted and creativity

Yemen

Abeer Rattas

LendingPal is a social enterprise that facilitates microloans for university students by connecting borrowers and lenders through an online P2P lending marketplace. Think Kiva but for-profit and for university students only.

LendingPal

United States

Sumair Bhimani

MAMU Cooking fuel is a green energy intended to produce cooking fuel using household wastes(food peelings or banana, cassava, potatoes etc ) drier stems of plants like maize , millet , sorghum etc, as well as grass and soil..climate change is a risk multiplier for hunger with the world that is 2oc warmer then the pre industrial times due to the excessive cutting down of trees for various reasons including fuel. In most of the african countries including Uganda charcoal and firewoodifirewood the main source of fuel which resultsinto global warming and also many wastes are dumped which creates nuisance and also increase risks diseases. MAMU project will use locally available material with minimal carbon content to produce charcoal that is not only clean but also economic. The overall goal of the project is to save the environment and climate through rescuing carbon content an preventing deforestation. The project aims to produce long lasting charcoal which is also economical. It is also sustainable because it can easily be aadopted by the community since iituses locally available materials The project targets to train over 200households in each parish using the participatory approach over a period of 3yeqrs . It will put to best local materials like food peelings, grasses, clay soil ..

MAMU Cooking fuel

Uganda

Masudio Mercy

According to UNICEF, maternal mortality and infant mortality rates in Haiti are the highest of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Given that Haiti has an estimated 61 mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, our idea is to utilize a subscription based automated text messaging system to improve postnatal maternal healthcare outcomes. Once a patient is enrolled in the study, they will receive pertinent text messages on a scheduled time frame informing them about potential postpartum danger signs, family planning, birth spacing and other valuable maternal health topics. In partnership with clinicians and healthcare workers on the ground in Haiti at Mirebalais University Hospital, we will validate the effectiveness of this SMS messaging campaign in two phases - a focus group, assessing what information would be most helpful to send out, and the intervention study itself. This SMS based solution is a technological creation in order to utilize the current technological infrastructure already in place. This information will serve as a way to spread education and information quickly, breaking any stigma associated with postpartum conditions.

Maternal_SMS

United States

Sana Shahul

Med-Connect is a web app that aims to bridge the linguistic and cultural gap between medical professionals and their patients. 25% of New Yorkers have Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and according to the Oman Medical Journal, patients who do not share a language with their healthcare providers are “disadvantaged in terms of access to healthcare services.” Moreover, the Georgetown University Health Policy institute reports that a “lack of cultural competence may lead to patient dissatisfaction” and “lack of participation in medical decisions.” Given this data and research, Med-Connect works to combat these problems as it strives to enable potential patients and doctors to connect with each other based on their similar languages and backgrounds on an easy-to-use platform. Both doctors and patients easily create their profiles on our application (which will be accessible both on mobile phones and computers) with extensive personal preferences such as native language, languages one is comfortable speaking in, cultural expectations, medical specialization (for doctors), and medical need (for patients). The system will be able to match patients with physicians who are “right” for them based on their personal preferences. Doctors will be notified when being matched with a patient and the latter will be able to directly message the doctor allowing both parties to communicate (by text message, phone call, video call, or in-person). The web app has additional functions including a multilingual dictionary, a series of key medical documents translated into the top most common languages spoken after English in NYC, a map of local hospitals with language services installed, and an emergency call button. By providing all these services via a simple system, Med-Connect will help those in NYC who would not be able to receive good healthcare otherwise.

Med-Connect

United States

Natalia Cao, Olivia Hamant, Lisa Liu

Ozone is a greenhouse gas filtration device that works in the EPS process on our vehicles, industries & household. The device comprises two parts, one that purifies smoke from the greenhouse gas while the other that stores the filtered wastes in it. The purification part consists of seven layers of filters, each of which is made with a combination of a few special metals. Each layer is consisting of two electrodes, through which high voltage current is passed. The greenhouse gas is ionized due to the current being attracted by the oppositely charged electrode and getting captured in the device. This highly efficient and economic device can control the green greenhouse emission by more than 60%, according to the test report of BCSIR. In this way, fumes from vehicles, industries & households are refined. We believe, O-Zone can be used primarily in vehicles and later in households, industries, and anywhere where greenhouse emission occurs. We believe, the mass implementation of O-Zone could potentially reduce the risk of climate change and can contribute to a better and sustainable future.

O-Zone

Bangladesh

Sheikh Rakib Shahriar Rimen

We are developing aquaculture platforms to be co-located at offshore wind farm sites. Our goal is to extend aquaculture development to offshore wind farms through the technical development and permitting of multi-use aquaculture platforms. Pushing aquaculture beyond nearshore environments will facilitate the expansion and preservation of regenerative mussel, oyster, and seaweed farming in the Northeast Atlantic and increase efficiency within the tight confines of reasonably usable ocean space. Our multi-use growing platforms would be secured near offshore wind turbine shafts and consist of aluminum frames fitted with dropper lines that enable polyculture shellfish communities to grow at depth in an offshore environment – a location shown to be favorable for shellfish cultivation as oceans continue to warm. Deployed structures will attract wild seafood populations and amplify the turbine’s dynamic sea life hubs that offer beneficial ecosystem services like water filtration and capitalize on naturally occurring resources. Renewable energy companies also benefit from cohabitation. Traditional frictions between coastal communities and the ocean energy sectors slow the deployment of clean energy, which is critical to a sustainable future, and prevent collaboration across sectors. By adopting our multi-use aquaculture systems, offshore wind farms would gain local support and offer a valuable economic venture to local harvesters - setting a precedent for collaboration. The future of our coasts relies on our ability to utilize design and science to create sustainable practices that will prioritize the needs of local communities and healthy oceans. As wind farms multiply along the Northeast coast, our design has the potential to scale with offshore wind and create an enormous impact in the fight for resilient oceans and blue economies.

SCUP Aquaculture

United States

Zoe Lee

Despite still being in high school, I am working on artificial intelligence and machine learning research, taking on projects that help people communicate and better understand the world around them. My deep fascination for the d/Deaf community and sign language has inspired me to take on one of the long-lasting master challenges in the machine learning research community: sign language recognition (SLR) and translation. Under the supervision of researchers at the University in Pilsen and Charles University in Prague, I developed SPOTER: a new architecture for sign language recognition, which overperformed all previous methods for this purpose. My research papers reporting these results have been accepted by WACV and CVPR, some of the most prestigious world conferences on AI. I have been working on research build-ups for this work ever since. Still, my entrepreneurial spirit also made me hardly think about bringing this unique system further than journals and academic conferences — putting it into the real world. This would not mean just making a simple app for translation but rather a complete framework unlocking user interaction with technology through sign language. This could be later implemented into mobile apps, translators, video conferencing platforms, and other websites to yet again make technology and the internet accessible to more of us. Not just those who hear. To put my vision into more concrete goals: I want to build an AI system for sign language recognition and translation, whose code and models will be open-sourced for the world to use. Apart from the generally accessible framework, there will be free mobile and web apps for raw sign language recognition. Imagine Google Translate, but instead of a field for text, there will be a camera for recording sign language. All of that, freely accessible to the world.

SPOTER Sign language recognition research initiative

Czech Republic

Matyáš Boháček

SeaMami is, in short, bio-degradable, sustainable cutlery made out of seaweed. Macroalgae is a strong material that can rival plastics in integrity and strength while doing wonders for carbon offsets. Aquaculture has largely been ignored by the technological and environmental perspectives. The cultivation of seaweed has the capacity to grow massive amounts of nutrient-rich, high protein, high carbohydrate, and high lipid content food ready for consumption. SeaMami would bridge the gap by treating seaweed both as an environmentally ethical material and as food by creating products like our Soup Spoon which will totally dissolve in boiling water into a salty broth. When done with your meal, our products remain a nutrient-rich, environmentally conscious snack. Before its dissolution, the seaweed, salty flavor brings a rich “seamami” flavor to savory meals. Seaweed farming is simple, eco-friendly, and requires low investment. Then combining the seaweed with our super secret formula, we strengthen the solution in our phycology lab which hardens into our molds, characterized by our signature trident fork. Whimsical and delicious, our cutlery is the correct choice for consumers to feel healthy and environmentally sustainable.

SeaMami

United States

Olivia Winters

Microplastics pollution in waterbodies are increasing at rate of 8million/year. There are no methods as of now for the removal of microplastics from sewage. We conducted our studies to remove microplastics from sewage using psidium guajava leaves. Through our research we came under conclusion that psidium guajava leaves are efficient in bringing out 98.5% of removal of microplastics from sewage. Through our experiments, we came under conclusion that Microplastics got adsorbed on the surface of Guava particles followed by coagulation that resulted in settling of microplastics thereby reducing its concentration in sewage before releasing treated sewage to waterbody. We propose a system where the drain or small stream carrying the sewage itself act as treatment system and solution of guava particles are added to incoming sewage at some point say 1km before the drain join a waterbody. This is our idea.

Sustainable Insitu remediation of microplastics using Psidium guajava leaves

India

MEGHA R RAJ

Our project breaks with social taboos, turns its back on stigmatization of women and creates a resource-saving and biodegradable alternative to conventional disposable products that cause plastic pollution! To accomplish that, we are creating a women-led social enterprise called Sparśa (Sanskrit: Touch/Sensation), which produces and sells innovative biodegradable menstrual pads. Besides non-woven cotton and corn starch biopolymer, the pad comprises of banana fibre absorbent layer. Post-harvest banana trunks are currently an undervalued and wasted resource in Nepal and worldwide. Inspired by the ideas of circular economy, we give a new value to this organic waste. Additionally, investing in local production reduces international trade dependencies that limit regional economic growth. The Sparśa pads will be made by women for women. The project aims to employ women of unprivileged backgrounds in production. We will pay fair salaries to give them financial independence, which most Nepali women are deprived of. Due to our social business model, we do not aim to generate high profits but build a self-sustaining business. It allows us to sell biodegradable pads at a price that would not be economically viable for standard for-profits and reinvest profits into the cause. The profits generated by the social enterprise will sustain menstrual awareness campaigns in public schools. I have been educating Nepali youth on the topic of menstruation since 2018, going with my mission from one public school to another. Better than anyone, I know that delivering fair education is the key to breaking the current status quo. Moreover, the profits will be spent on community discussions and events where subjects related to female reproductive health, menstrual discrimination and gender equality will be raised. Interlinked SDGs: 3, 5, 10, 12, 17

The Sparsa Pad Project

Nepal

Dipisha Bhujel

Within agricultural primary production, Verve Ag-Innovate Ltd., is initiating a project of producing a special vertical farming system under the name “Verve Vertical Farming System (Verve VFS)”, that would be produced out of plastic wastes, and would recycle irrigated water as well as using natural light instead of artificial lights such as LED which are popular in vertical farms. The systems would be used in outdoor farming, greenhouses, and home garden. Modern vertical farms around the world use artificial light, especially Light Emitting Diode (LED), and a 37-floor vertical farm would consume 3.5 GWh of electricity (Vertical Farming Planet, 2022). When the source of that energy is solar, it would require a vast land for solar panels plant, and when it is from coal, it could lead to pollution through greenhouse gases emitted during electricity formation. Given high energy consumption and the equipment of LED, the energy cost makes the system unaffordable for smallholder farmers, in Rwanda they make a big portion of farmers. Additionally, in vertical systems around the world, only a few crops can be grown economic-wise, and these are limited to leafy greens and few spices, and sometimes, these crops can have a low caloric intake compared to crops grown by conventional farming (Vertical Farming Planet, 2022)

Verve vertical farming system

Rwanda

Venuste Nsabimana

Worka is a digital workspace for early-stage service businesses in Africa. Our platform provides service businesses and workers with essential in-built CRM tools to help them attract customers and deliver their services efficiently. Worka allows these businesses to focus on attracting customers, tracking job requests, managing teams, and controlling their finances. We are implementing functionalities like: Service businesses on Worka can link their bank card to our wallet feature for smooth payment processes. Service businesses on Worka can directly share invitation links to their workspaces with clients. Service businesses can access chats, video calls, phone calls, maps, and other features to connect with customers. In essence, we are helping early-stage businesses to deliver their services in an hour, a drop from the usual 3-5 business days.

Worka Technologies

Ghana

Joshua Alexander Opoku Fordjour

We are building black carbon products that are extracted from the pollutant of the environment. We are capturing black carbon soot and converting it into bricks, tiles, and other products. Our primary motive is to reduce carbon particles with low energy consumption and reduce carbon pollutants in the air. With this, we want to move a step closer to reducing global warming. The proposed approach has the potential to reduce dangerous pollutants' carbon black concentration by 80 to 90%. A cyclone separator is used to filter polluted air using high-pressure gases at the speed of 11-12m/s. Using a cyclone separator to extract black carbon particles from pollutants as carbon particles size is up to 5 micro meters and according to it we using cyclone dimension which is capable to separate these size of particles easily at 11-12 m/s speed of gas. Activated carbon black and silica gel reduce the toxicity of poisonous gases while also eliminating the need for moisture. The black carbon is collected from the air pollutants as an extract, which can be used as a bi-product and sold to industries such as the tire industry, mechanical rubber goods, printing industry, carbon fibers, etc.

ZEROTH SOLUTION

India

Sidhant Kumar Nishad