Institute of Skilled Technology Professionals
Total cash prize pool: $10,000 distributed among the top three teams.
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A team from Lagos building a lightweight clinical decision support system for community health workers that combines offline-first workflows, localized medical guidance, and an AI triage assistant. Judges praised the product’s pragmatic deployment plan, strong local partnerships and a clear path to scale across West Africa.
2
Based in Nairobi, SawaSync prototyped a payments-agnostic merchant onboarding and working-capital marketplace for African SMEs that uses alternative data for credit scoring. The solution demonstrated strong traction potential across East Africa and beyond.
3
Ethiopia-based team that built an agriculture analytics platform combining remote sensing, local weather feeds and farmer-friendly mobile alerts to improve yield predictions and input recommendations for smallholder farms.
All top 10 teams received sponsor starter packs: cloud credits, legal-hours voucher, and access to ISTP networking channels.
How well does the solution address a real, measurable problem?
Quality of prototype, scalability, and technical feasibility.
User friendliness, accessibility, and product logic.
Viability, go-to-market, monetization, and financial clarity.
Data privacy, fairness, inclusivity and regulatory readiness.
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Teams that are majority-based in Africa and working on tech products with global potential.
For 2024 the event was free for accepted teams. Check specific future events for updates.
Hybrid participation options were available. Finalists were expected to present on the Demo Night (in-person or via high-quality livestream).
Teams retain IP. If funded or accepted into accelerator opportunities, additional agreements may be negotiated.
Judges scored teams on five weighted criteria. Top teams were invited to deliver a live demo and go through Q&A.
