Author: dLab

Empowering local innovators in Tanzania to leverage open data
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Empowering local innovators in Tanzania to leverage open data

The Data for Local Impact Innovation Challenge (DLIIC) recently selected 12 winning innovators to tackle health challenges in Tanzania. DLIIC is funded by the U.S. Government’s President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to engage and support Tanzania’s growing data community and strengthen health outcomes. The Dar es Salaam Teknohama Business Incubator (DTBi) is collaborating...

April 19, 2017September 7, 2017by
Announcing the First Challenge Winners
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Announcing the First Challenge Winners

Data for Local Impact Innovation Challenge selects winning innovators to tackle health challenges in Tanzania Over the past decade, the Tanzanian Government has made good progress in opening up data to provide greater transparency and to enable programmatic effectiveness, but there is an opportunity to more meaningfully involve and build the capacity of the technical...

March 2, 2017May 10, 2017by
First Challenge Pitch Session
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First Challenge Pitch Session

The very first Data for Local Impact Innovation Challenge Pitch Event was conducted on 3rd of December, 2016 at the University of Dar es Salaam College of ICT – Dar  es Salaam, where 26 Tanzanian innovators and entrepreneurs presented their ideas to our panel of expert judges. The esteemed Selection Committee evaluated the pitches

January 13, 2017May 9, 2017by
First Challenge Window Update
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First Challenge Window Update

The first DLI Innovation Challenge Window targeted both organisations and individuals/startups from all over Tanzania. The call for applications started on October 25th, and the window closed on November 20th, 2016 at 2400 hrs midnight. The very first Challenge Window attracted a total of 723 applicants: 190 from registered organisations and 533 from startups and...

January 2, 2017May 9, 2017by
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Access to quality health care and information

Design innovative solutions, processes, and/or tools that leverage available open data, such as the Health Facilities Registry, to strengthen linkages between health facilities and community structures and to enable better access among people in rural communities to available health services, resources and products

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Empowering Citizens

Design innovative solutions, processes, and/or tools to facilitate communication among girls and/or their parents to identify, share, and manage adolescent reproductive health issues, including menstrual-related challenges faced by school girls, with the ultimate objective of helping to keep young women and girls in school.

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Feedback from Community

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Ending Statelessness

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Safeguarding Individuals

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