4th Innovation Challenge Winners

Itakuwa Poa! is an illustrative platform that provides information on substance abuse, rehabilitation and prevention, supported by dance-theatre, music, animated cartoons and video-stories. Itakuwa Poa! creates community ambassadors, who will use the platform to support the recovery of drug users and prevent drug abuse. This is a combination of technology and art to solve a major problem in the community.

Tanzanian youth often lack information on their rights and therefore fail to report or speak out against abuse. HAKISA mobile application enables people to read, save, and download informative articles and contents such as posters, flyers and videos that will help users to share to communities.

The Beautiful You Initiative engages young girls in dialogues on key issues that affect them. The Beautiful You Initiative provides digital and physicals platforms for open dialogue on the issues that closely affect young girls, inspires them to share their challenges and empowers them to collectively drive solutions.

Niokoe is an electronic system to analyze and visualize substance abuse data relevant to community-level decision-makers. The system will use data to improve efficiency of efforts to target HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, and treatment services, especially to people using injection drugs.

The smart growth application is an electronic diary will give autonomy to caregivers. It will follow the child’s growth in real-time; provide instant dietary information and what the child would be required to eat in terms of diversity, frequency, and amount of food; remind caregivers of important milestones in immunization and clinics visits.

MICROPESA is an innovative platform, providing research-based information from small youth businesses. MICROPESA will assist institutions to access reliable data on the status of youth businesses, which will guide planning for assistance to available entrepreneurs.

The Jamii Dashi Bodi is a dashboard that will demonstrate how existing data can be integrated and used to map groups of marginalized youths and their needs, thereby informing data-driven decisions on the problems of access to quality healthcare, education and employment outcomes for youth.

Dr. Elsa is a data-powered telemedicine service that aims to improve the national state of health through affordable, inclusive, and high quality access to health expertise. Dr. Elsa uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to support healthcare providers in making diagnoses, developing disease outbreak prediction models, and better understanding their patients.