The Universal
Service Provision Fund (USPF) is challenging Nigerian youth to engage their ingenuity
to solve relevant problems and bring about change through creativity and
innovation.
The USPF
Innovation Changemaker Challenge 2017 is a nationwide competition open to young
innovators, software developers, UX designers, students, and other ICT enthusiasts
from all over Nigeria. The aim is to tackle a selection of identified problems
based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as they apply to Nigeria and
offer working solutions to them.
Participants
will be required to create their own technology intervention for any of the
following areas:
1. Agriculture and Creation of Mass
Employment: In the production, storage or distribution of food.
2. Environment: Oil & Gas, Flood,
Erosion/Climate Change.
3. National e-data on Poverty, Disease,
Security.
4. Health/Lifestyle: Medical Doctors
Information Exchange Tool; Health Insurance etc.
5. Epidemic Mobility Tracking Solutions:
e.g. Ebola, Lassa fever.
6. Disease Destroyer Games: Educational
games on disease eradication e.g. Malaria, Polio, and HIV.
7. Education: Virtual Education, E-Library
& E-Learning Systems.
8. Intelligent Technologies for Scientists,
Science Teachers, Engineers, etc.
9. Girls4Tech: Interactive solutions aimed
at getting young girls interested technology and innovation.
10. Fraud whistle-Blowers: Enabling or
assistive technology.
11. Information Technology: Communications
Quality of Service.
12. National Security: Cybercrime and Cyber
security Solutions, etc.
13. E-Government: Government Automation
Processes.
14. E-Commerce: e-Transactions, Payment
Systems, etc.
Entry is open to
teams, minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 members (no individuals). Teams with
female members will have definite added advantage as USPF seeks to encourage
more gender diversity in technology innovation.
Thirty (30) teams will be
shortlisted (consisting of the top 5 entries from each geopolitical zone). They
will be invited for the national finals, where the top 3 finalists will win the
following prizes:
1st Prize – N1, 000,000* plus acceptance into
incubation programme
2nd Prize – N750, 000* plus acceptance into
incubation programme
3rd Prize – N500, 000* plus acceptance into
incubation programme
*Monetary prize
includes product completion and cash
Opening date for registration: 4th July, 2017
Closing date for registration: 14th August, 2017
Changemaker Challenge Finals: 28th & 29th October, 2017
To register, log
on to: http://www.uspfchangemaker.ng
For further
enquiries contact:
1. Nelson Afundu, 0803 491 4007
nelson.afundu@openmedia.com.ng
2. Joke Atte, 0816 391 3797; 09-4617448;
jokeatte@ncc.gov.ng
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