199 apps built by Technovation Challenge and AI Ventures Accelerator participants between 2017 and 2024, spanning every SDG category and dozens of countries. Each card includes the team's own pitch video.
DyS+
Turkey
At least 1 in 10 people are dyslexic, which means they face difficulty reading, writing, spelling, memory, and concentration. LEXIA is here to help. LEXIA gives children with dyslexia access to technology that empowers them. It codes letters with memorable iconography and sounds, creating graphemic and phonemic awareness, uses speech recognition for automatic decoding, and more.
Girls
Reduced Inequalities
Artificial Intelligence
2020
TEF_Team Rivas Tech Girls
Spain
Blabber helps people who have language disorders communicate with their peers. Blabber helps users learn sign language with an AI-powered platform that connects via bluetooth to a robotic arm that makes the gesture in real time. Blabber helps both those with language disorders and the people who love them and want to improve their sign language skills.
Girls
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
2020
Smart Emotions
Ireland
Smart Emotions changes the way people think and behave by activating their emotional intelligence. It helps people learn and develop emotional intelligence using and AI-powered emotional intelligence testing tool, video training and a discussion forum, all fed by information from doctors, coaches, and counselors.
Girls
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
2020
Freshies
United States
Unswayed seeks to increase voter turnouts by informing voters about current candidates. Unswayed also offers a platform for local election managers to create profiles and surveys for their candidates.
Girls
Civic Engagement
Civic Engagement
2020
The Tech Pros 💻
Canada
DiscriminAction is a simulation game that teaches kids about what it's like to be discriminated against. Players select from a diverse group of avatars to play as, and once they've chosen, they make decisions for the avatar to try to get them through the discrimination that the avatar is facing.
Girls
Social Justice
Social Justice
2020
Puella Virtue
India
Apeksha (Hope) supports survivors of acid abuse. It connects volunteers, NGOs, and survivors. Volunteers can provide legal, medical or psychological aid. The recruiters can provide job opportunities and the NGOs can create a profile with information about their services. Survivors can learn about their rights, services open to them, and showcase their own creativity.
Girls
Social Justice
Social Justice
2020
Team Ctrl Alt Elite
Canada
Carefuge helps the most vulnerable members of our society. Homelessness can be a symptom of system failures such as the lack of affordable housing, support for immigrants and refugees, or rough transitions from child welfare. Carefuge draws attention to this problem and provides service to those experiencing homelessness.
Girls
Social Justice
Social Justice
2020
almost vegan
New Zealand
A mobile game targeted at the 40+% of 18-24 year-olds who do not vote, Eunomia teaches players about politics and how the New Zealand government functions. Eunomia also identifies the user's political stance in an unbiased way.
Girls
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
Finalist
2020
Team RecycleRight
United States
An iOS application that helps prevent waste contamination by facilitating and simplifying the recycling process, Recycle Right uses image recognition technology to help users dispose of waste. Using augmented reality animations, the app quickly identifies whether or not an item can be recycled.
Girls
Responsible Consumption and Production
Finalist
2020
One World Beyond Pandemic
Unknown or Invalid Region
A tool to prevent education disparities from growing even larger during the Covid-19 pandemic, Goal Shadowing pairs children with similar career goals but unequal access to resources, so that both children with similar interests can achieve their goals through task-mirroring.
Girls
Quality Education
Finalist
2020
ColtecAda
Brazil
A social app to keep women and the LGBTQ+ community safe from dangerous or uncomfortable situations. Mappid shares local support groups, emergency phone numbers, and the safety level of establishments as rated by the Mappid community. Users can actively search for places or enable notification alerts for places nearby.
Girls
Gender Equality
Finalist
2020
Jyothi
India
A tool to help both patients with Alzheimer’s and their caretakers, Zesha acts as a digital caretaker. Zesha’s features include the ability to listen to and answer repetitive questions from users using Dialog Flow, patient GPS tracking, helpful daily checklists, quick-dial emergency numbers, and links to entertainment sites to help patients cope with boredom.
Girls
Good Health and Well-Being
1st Place
2020
The Nairobi Tech Girls
Kenya
A cross-platform application that addresses government corruption in Kenya. Users can report corruption, naming the location and departments involved. The Corruption Disruptor includes a geo-map highlighting the most corrupt areas in the city, which is especially useful when identifying areas of police corruption.
Girls
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
Finalist
2020
Team One
United States
A personal safety app, a,1000apps tells users how companies handle personal data. This includes reported data breaches, type of personal data required to open an account, and problematic aspects of an app’s terms of service. a,1000apps also shares a holistic ranking of each app using an algorithm combining those three parameters.
Girls
Other
Finalist
2020
ROC
Canada
Uber 4 Dogs makes dog walking more accessible, affordable, and serviceable. Uber 4 Dogs includes two apps, one for dog owners and one for walkers, and allows dog owners to help their neighbors by walking their dogs, too. An AI-powered, automatic pairing system helps owners choose the most suitable walkers.
Girls
Life on Land
Finalist
2020
Athena Girls
Nigeria
A tool to help farmers and stakeholders in the agricultural industry, Cultimora identifies the most suitable crops to grow based on soil types and location. It also suggests the most suitable sowing patterns when users enter their land dimensions, soil specifications and geographical data. Cultimora aims to reduce or eliminate risks in agricultural ventures.
Girls
Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Regional Winner
2020
The Wave
Kazakhstan
A tool for after-stroke recovery, Cerebrate focuses on restoring cognitive and intellectual skills. Our mobile application offers a variety of puzzles, which develop learning, memorizing and social abilities of individuals affected by strokes. The user-friendly environment also connects a patient, a caregiver, and a doctor to accomplish one goal – making the patient’s life better.
Girls
Good Health and Well-Being
Regional Winner
2020
GirlsEsc
Romania
EnGuard is a mobile application used as a “safety-net” by all victims of abuse. If you find yourself in a dangerous situation, pronounce your already-chosen safe word to start the app. It will identify the type of harassment and will alert either the police or a trusted person you chose. The message contains your real-time geo-location and a voice recording of the conversation.
Girls
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
Regional Winner
2020
Code Work Ahead
United States
A tool to address the lack of confidence many girls feel due to a fear of failure and judgment. Rooting For You allows users to choose between social, academic, or self-care-based challenges. When users choose a challenge to try, the challenge is planted as a seed in their garden. The user can enter journal entries detailing their progress and ultimately grow the seed until it blooms.
Girls
Good Health and Well-Being
Regional Winner
2020
Aguacates Unidos por México
Mexico
By 2050, venomous species will migrate into densely inhabited locations due to climate change, putting 6.7 million people at risk. In 2019, León had the most scorpion bites worldwide, reaching 43,913 cases. Kap maps hospitals that have anti-venoms available and quickens medical care by changing phone calls into emergency emails with a few clicks in case users' throats close.
Girls
Good Health and Well-Being
Regional Winner
2020
DEMAC Power Up!
Spain
An app for elderly users, LAZOS – close to you, connects senior citizens with volunteers and associations who can provide reliable information and any type of help, promoting and fostering their integration with activities in community social life to fight loneliness.
Girls
Good Health and Well-Being
Finalist
2020
Deline
Kyrgyzstan
A tool to help prevent suicide and bullying problems among teenagers, Bee Happy provides users with psychological assistance and access to a community and motivational resources. It connects teenagers with psychologists and help centers, and also allows them to chat with peers and psychologists in group chats and forums. It also provides access to motivational resources and tests, and mini-games.
Girls
Good Health and Well-Being
Regional Winner
2020
#girls on
Spain
An environmental protection and education tool, Blue Duck: Albufera protects Valencia's La Albufera park through collaborative action. La Albufera is affected by the city’s dumping of contaminated water, plastic waste, and the pollution caused by the large infrastructure nearby, which destroys the ecosystem. Blue Duck educates locals in a fun way, and encourages everybody to help.
Girls
Life on Land
Regional Winner
2020
Spicy Salsa
United States
A disaster preparedness tool, Auxilium helps prepare the 60% of American adults who have not practiced what to do in a disaster. With input from school principles and FUSD administrators, Auxilium offers fun quizzes and information to teach people what to do in case of disaster. It also includes a place to create a family plan, and a way for users to alert others if they are in an emergency.
Girls
Other
Regional Winner
2020
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