Vote for Finalists
We’re so excited to announce that our Challenge Leadership Groups have selected 88 finalists from 29 countries. You can vote for your favorites and read more about them below.
The finalist from each Challenge with the most votes will receive a $2,000 Community Award which will be announced during Solve Challenge Finals. To do so:
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Resilient Ecosystems Finalists
Innovación Azul
A transformative social venture for sustainable fisheries and ocean conservation
By Stuart Fulton
204
Seqana
Measuring what matters. Remote sensing based carbon sequestration monitoring for the carbon markets that cuts costs by 90%.
By Jakob Levin
JL 6
Sustainable Sting
production of ecofibre from stinging nettle grown on degraded steepslopes as way of conservation and local economic empowerment
By mr jonah mwangi
JM 145
LandMark
Online, interactive platform designed to help Indigenous Peoples and communities protect their land rights and territories.
By Dr WARD ANSEEUW
55
Regenerative Resources Co
We create circular, regenerative economies by transforming degraded coastal landscapes into mangrove agroforestries.
By Neal Spackman
132
Coral Vita
Coral Vita grows climate change resilient coral up to 50x faster through a commercial land-based farming model to restore dying reefs.
By Sam Teicher
ST 11
SOIL
Using the power of a circular economy sanitation system to transform a public health crisis into an environmental solution.
By Eliza Parish
EP 23
Project Palaash
Utilization of floral waste generated from places of worship to naturally dye fabrics and preserving the heritage of handlooms in India.
By Project Palaash
PP 1984
Digital Inclusion Finalists
NewHaptics
Enabling equal access to digital information for the blind.
By Alexander Russomanno
18
Kiwix
Internet content for those without Internet access
By Alice Nichols
72
DigiKua
Distributing simple digital reporting tools to small businesses in East Africa’s marginalized communities and connecting them to financing
By Ms Caroline Mwarania
2448
NomadLab
NomadLab is a modular, open source, inclusive, easy-to-build solution for ICT infrastructure and an innovative educational tool for teachers
By Noemi Encinares
1712
Konexio
Empowering refugees with relevant technical and soft skills to run their own digital freelance business, gaining autonomy and self-reliance
By Jean Guo
JG 13
Alfi
Marketplace of financial products based on financial education.
By Andrea Segura
310
Grameen Impact Ventures
Grameen Impact Ventures drives digital inclusion by combining the power the digital platforms and trusted, on-ground community agents.
By Aashir Sutar
108
Mosabi
Mosabi’s engaging, mobile financial education helps underserved citizens improve decisions and behaviors on their businesses and money.
By Francis Uchechukwu Okeke
16
Equitable Classrooms Finalists
Interactive at-home learning on WhatsApp
Open-source solution helping 2.5M Delhi government school students access interactive lessons, assignments and testing through WhatsApp
By Aishwarya Geete
AG 
140
Read to Lead
In Read to Lead, students become the boss in a virtual workplace with diverse role models and learn literacy, life, and career skills.
By Matthew Chacko
MC 38
Arts for All by Slam Out Loud
Using visual and performing arts to enable children from disadvantaged backgrounds build creativity, confidence and find their voice.
By Jigyasa Labroo
JL 958
The ReFunza Project
First personalized learning platform to use SMS and AI to build skills for refugee learners through the support of refugee-led organisations
By Ruth Njiri
RN 67
Brume
Brume is a learning game helping in the early detection of dyspraxia, and helping all children master key pre-writing skills in the process
By Mr Serge Versille
33
eFlow Education
eFlow is a highly accessible cloud based platform powered by an interactive chatbot that enables online learning for underserved communities
By Bassel Jalaleddine
181
Kolibri
Offline-first hybrid teaching and learning tool to address learning loss in low-resource settings
By Lauren Lichtman
351
Health Security & Pandemics Finalists
Breegi Scientific's Biocontainment
NPS is a single-use, EUA first line of defense patient biocontainment facilitating safe medical procedures and respiratory interventions.
By Dr. Wisam Breegi
3
Drones For Health
Drones will be employed to strengthen Ebola preparedness measures via lab sample transportation in Equateur, Democratic Republic of Congo
By Andrea Weitz
GA GA AW 24
PathCheck: Crowdsourced Analytics
Crowdsourcing to complement and connect fragmented public health data to avoid a pandemic response crippled by knowledge gaps
By Paul Baier
40
Kemet Modular Medication Manufacturing
Kemet solves drug shortages by predicting and producing essential medications in prefabricated onsite facilities with adaptive digital tech.
By Morẹ́nikẹ́ Ọláòṣebìkan
AB AB 
RM ON KO 
BP MR 1059
e-LITE
A mobile digital tool to empower patients and healthcare workers by centralising data across a tiered pathology value chain in Africa.
By Ms Lynsey Stewart-Isherwood
LS 26
Disease, Food, Energy, & Water Solutions
We reduce schistosomiasis by removing aquatic vegetation & converting it to compost, livestock feed & cooking gas to increase food & energy.
By Jason Rohr
JR 141
LFAnt Medical
Next-generation at-home rapid testing for infectious diseases, enabled by novel biochemistry, embedded sensing, and smartphone connectivity.
By Michael Phelan
MP 50
Medupi by Drizzle Health, LLC
A low cost, hand-held, instant screening tool for TB for CCWs in LMICs towards real-time surveillance and reduction of diagnostic delays.
By Digvijay Singh
BM DS 2
Antiracist Technology in the US Finalists
Break the Box
Break the Box is an Opportunity zone fund for Young Minorty professionals that provides an easement in Homeownership and wealth creation
By Kobla Tetey
KT 439
Build in Tulsa
Commemorating the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a movement to build multi-generational wealth in Tulsa and across America
By Mr. Randolph Wiggins
54
FreeCap Financial
FreeCap is an Environmental, Social, and Governance data provider that empowers people to invest alongside their social justice values.
By Tanay Tatum-Edwards
46
The CivicLab's TIF Illumination Project
The TIF Illumination Project uses data, reporting, and civic engagement to help people track and judge their local government priorities.
By Mr. Tom Tresser
98
SayLambda
We are the Amazon of homeownership incentives, and a community hub for Black potential homeowners who feel excluded from the market.
By Kwasi Frye
KF 26
Vngle
A blockchain-based grassroots news network training citizens to bring "various angles" of verifiable coverage to underrepresented areas.
By Blake Stoner
540
STEM Skool, Inc.
Engaging and culturally-relevant K-12th grade programs designed to increase achievement and diversity in STEM.
By GeAndra Imoudu
244
TOYZSTEAM Learn Today Earn Tomorrow
An interactive game using advanced manufacturing and rap to get students to create, sell, and tell stories of themselves as STEM superheroes
By Damola Idowu
106
2021 Indigenous Communities Fellowship
Covenant Tribal Solar Initiative
Diminishing poverty and fostering a return to self-reliance for Native Americans with robust tribal-led solar economic development programs.
By Ms. Chéri Smith
5
Flathead Rez Exergame
This project will develop a culturally-grounded “exergame” to increase outdoor physical activity for Native youth on Flathead Reservation.
By Faith Price
FP 1
OMO CEAD Innovation Center
Sowing the seeds of a decolonized, indigenized, reconciled planet through indigenous philosophy and 21st-Century creative CEAD education.
By Nataani Garnenez
CB 
2
Oyate Data
Educating students in data science and data sovereignty with real-world projects that provide value to communities and Native organizations.
By Mason Grimshaw
3
Sovereign Data Alliance
The Sovereign Data Alliance analyzes Federal appropriations and budget data to promote trust and treaty obligations to all Tribes.
By Tyler Scribner
1
Natives in Tech
Build a collective of Native technologists that craft a tech ecosystem for Native peoples.
By Adam Recvlohe
AD 
81
Arctic Quest - A VR Experience
Arctic Quest is a virtual reality game used to introduce players to the cultures and lifestyles of Alaska Native people.
By Stephanie Hinz
SH 1
GateKeepers App
Utilizing emerging technology to document and preserve cultural and natural environments, ancestral knowledge and traditional practices.
By BLOSSOM JOHNSTON
AC 
BJ 21
Indigenous Scholarship Search Engine
A search engine, website/mobile based directory list for all Native American scholarships and internship, that will help college students.
By Dexter Dee
DD 11
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