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Developing List of Potentially Relevant COVID-19 Innovations
Innovations that may have relevance to COVID-19 or provide unique ways to inform COVID-19 response and recovery
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M'Care HealthUPDATED APR 2020
Offline Google for community health workers in rural Africa. M'Care provides 95% female workforce of community health workers medical protocols to make right diagnosis, treat and prevent primary health care diseases in rural communities improving access by 80%.
FOCUS AREAS
Health
IMPLEMENTED IN
Nigeria
LifeBankUPDATED MAR 2020
Discovery + Delivery of Essential Medical Products
FOCUS AREAS
Health
IMPLEMENTED IN
Nigeria
TO DATE$10,000 Funds Raised
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ADD INNOVATIONdoctHERsUPDATED MAR 2020
Leverage Technology to Connect Women & Improve Health (SDG 3), Promote Gender Equality (SDG 5), Provide dignified work (SDG 8), Reduce inequalities (SDG 10) and Coordinate sustainable partnerships for the SDG goals (SDG 17)
FOCUS AREAS
Digital Inclusion & Connectivity, Entrepreneurship, Gender Equity and 17 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
United States, Mexico, Pakistan
TO DATE$1,339,950 Funds Raised
Benetech's Bookshare Initiative: Accessible digital library for people with reading barriersUPDATED MAR 2020
Benetech's Bookshare platform is the world's largest accessible digital library for people with reading barriers such as visual impairment, dysylexia, or cerebral palsy.
FOCUS AREAS
Education, Inclusive Education, Workforce Development
TO DATE$1,108,995 Funds Raised
Last-Mile ConnectivityUPDATED MAR 2020
Bridges to Prosperity connects isolated last-mile communities to vital resources through the construction of footbridges.
FOCUS AREAS
Agriculture, Community Transport Models, Economic Growth and Trade and 2 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Indonesia, Nepal, Ethiopia and 17 moreSEE ALL
POKETUPDATED MAR 2020
Mapping the Emerging Economy, One Merchant at a Time
FOCUS AREAS
Crowdsourcing and Open Source, Digital Development, GIS/Mapping
IMPLEMENTED IN
Nigeria
TO DATE$35,000 Funds Raised
Mobile Vaani (A federated network of mobile based community media platforms)UPDATED MAR 2020
Mobile Vaani is a voice based social media platform for rural and low income urban households, low literacy regions, and non-Internet users. It serves media-dark regions in an interactive manner and is accessible to anybody who has a phone.
FOCUS AREAS
Citizen Participation, Communications and Media, Health and 3 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
India
TO DATE$100,000 Funds Raised
clinicPesa/disruptive Healthcare Financing SolutionsUPDATED MAR 2020
clinicPesa empowers every organization and every person to save lives and do more by taking the first step of setting aside funds dedicated for healthcare through our health saving and micro loans platform.
FOCUS AREAS
Digital Finance, Health, Inclusion
IMPLEMENTED IN
Uganda
TO DATE$40,000 Funds Raised
Worldreader BookSmartUPDATED MAR 2020
BookSmart is an affordable digital reading solution that helps students read and develop valuable 21st century skills. BookSmart features a broad collection of full-color quality books and supports educators with data insights about student progress.
FOCUS AREAS
Basic Education, Education, Pre-primary/Pre-school/ECD Education and 4 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and 5 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$300,000 Funds Raised
Last Mile HealthUPDATED MAR 2020
Last Mile Health partners with governments to design, scale, strengthen, and sustain high-quality community health systems by empowering teams of community-based health workers to bring life-saving healthcare to remote communities.
FOCUS AREAS
Health Systems, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Primary Care and 8 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda and 1 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$1,000,000 Funds Raised
OperationASHAUPDATED MAR 2020
eDOTS Biometric Identification for TB.
FOCUS AREAS
Health, Infectious & Vector Diseases, Monitoring & Evaluation and 1 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
India, Cambodia, Tanzania
TO DATE$981,324 Funds Raised
Eneza EducationUPDATED MAR 2020
Spreading Education Everwhere
FOCUS AREAS
Entrepreneurship, Human Centered Design, Refugees and 4 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Kenya, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire
TO DATE$35,000 Funds Raised
Highlight: Colored bleach additiveUPDATED MAR 2020
Preventing infections and empowering health workers and patients with disinfection you can see
FOCUS AREAS
Health, Infectious & Vector Diseases, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
IMPLEMENTED IN
United States, Guinea, Liberia
TO DATE$1,701,342 Funds Raised
The Schoolbox ProjectUPDATED FEB 2020
Trauma informed education, art & play for children displaced by conflict and crisis.
FOCUS AREAS
Child Protection, Education, Refugees and 1 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Greece, Bangladesh, Mexico
Beacon Emergency Dispatch PlatformUPDATED FEB 2020
Text message-based emergency medical dispatching for resource-limited settings and austere environments ("911 where there is none")
FOCUS AREAS
Disaster Risk Reduction, Health, Response Technologies and 3 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Argentina and 8 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$575,000 Funds Raised
KehealaUPDATED FEB 2020
Keheala’s demonstrated digital intervention addresses underlying drivers of medical adherence rates -- stigma, access to information, motivation and support – with powerful strategies from behavioral economics and accessible feature phones.
FOCUS AREAS
Behavioural Development, Human Centered Design, Social Services and 9 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Kenya
TO DATE$950,000 Funds Raised
VillageReachUPDATED JAN 2020
VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone.
FOCUS AREAS
Health Systems, Prevention & Vaccination, Supply Chains and 3 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Mozambique, Malawi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
TO DATE$5,195,736 Funds Raised
DoctorDialUPDATED JAN 2020
FOCUS AREAS
Health
Wanji GamesUPDATED DEC 2019
The Wanji Games platform uses basic telephony to provide interactive learning through spoken audio. This allows a geographically remote audience with limited literacy access to information in their own spoken language.
FOCUS AREAS
Communications and Media, Other, Social and Behavior Change
IMPLEMENTED IN
Uganda, Pakistan, Madagascar and 9 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$26,950 Funds Raised
Overcome Hysteresis Effect by Social Network TargetingUPDATED DEC 2019
FOCUS AREAS
Infectious & Vector Diseases
TO DATE$100,000 Funds Raised
A New Strategy to Elicit Broadly Protective Antibodies to Influenza VirusesUPDATED DEC 2019
FOCUS AREAS
Infectious & Vector Diseases
TO DATE$999,891 Funds Raised
Osusu Mobile MoneyUPDATED DEC 2019
FOCUS AREAS
Digital Finance, Technology
IMPLEMENTED IN
Nigeria
TO DATE$200,000 Funds Raised
TupaiaUPDATED DEC 2019
Free and open-source health data aggregation, analysis and visualisation platform, combining data from mSupply, DHIS2, Tupaia MediTrak and elsewhere. Used for supply chain strengthening, disaster response, service provision and disease surveillance.
FOCUS AREAS
Data/Analytics, Health, Transport & Supply Chains and 2 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Kiribati, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and 2 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$6,541,096 Funds Raised
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