
Kuwait Birds Tracker
Kuwait
Kuwait Birds Tracker helps protect local endangered bird species. Users take pictures of birds, and using image-recognition tools, KBT identifies the bird and suggests tips for keeping it safe.
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.
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.
Live Better
Venezuela
Live Better helps children and teenagers learn to use basic resources such as water and electricity less wastefully and how to properly dispose of waste. Live Better helps young people develop into responsible citizens and symbolizes the quality of life every person on the planet deserves. We can make a difference with good habits!
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.
Memory Haven
Ireland
A tool to help the 500,000+ people in Ireland whose families have been impacted by dementia, Memory Haven incorporates a music playlist alongside other healthcare features like alerts, face and voice recognition, and health checks to help patients with dementia, as well as those who take care of them.
My Ouch
United States
A tool for monitoring a person's health and pain levels. My Ouch has temperature, pulse and moisture sensors that gather data about a person's health. The app uses this data to predict the level of care a person may need and alert an emergency contact if necessary.
Code Codets
United Kingdom
PolluNo is an educational game that tackles air pollution, a significant contributor to climate change and cause of serious respiratory diseases. PolluNo focuses on transportation, which accounts for 26% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions. The game informs people and encourages them to make better choices for our environment by opting for low-emisson forms of transport.
Protecting trees
Bolivia
A tool to help fight deforestation. Protecting Trees' AI model helps children recognize tree species and whether they are endangered. Users take pictures of trees which the app compares to its database of similar images to identify the tree in the image and whether or not it's threatened
DORY'S TEAM
Bolivia
An AI-powered tool, Qhawana prevents individuals with Alzheimer’s from wandering away and getting lost. With the help of algorithms that process the movement of people, the app detects erratic or unusual movements caused by spatial disorientation. When someone with Alzheimer’s begins to wander, Qhawana sends notifications to the caregiver or relatives with their geolocation in real time.
Recyclator
Spain
A tool to help users improve their recycling habits by alleviating confusion. Recylator uses a camera to analyze waste materials against its database, and then flashes one of its 5 colored LED lights, indicating what category the recyclable material falls under.
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.
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.
Smart Driving Assistant
Cambodia
A device to help users drive more safely. Inspired by the high rate of traffic injuries and death in Cambodia. The Smart Driving Assistant has several sensors that allow it to recognize unsafe driving conditions or obstacles and then reduce speed or adjust trajectory accordingly.
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.
Smart Waste Sorter
United States
A tool to help users properly sort waste. The Smart Waste Sorter attaches to waste bins where a motion sensor activates a camera that captures an image of the item being disposed, and compares it against its database to determine if it's being put in the right bin. If not, the device buzzes to alert the user.
Palestine AI
Palestinian Territories
An assistive technology for people with speech impairments. Users record themselves saying a word in English or Arabic. Then Talk & Trust analyzes the recording against its library of recordings of other pronunciations and displays the word in text.
Tech Rescue
Nigeria
A wearable device designed to curb incidences of kidnapping. Tech Rescue uses an AI model trained to recognize a user's typical GPS data. When a user strays from the expected path, Tech Rescue alerts an emergency contact with a text and phone call.
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.
Team Mohammed
Pakistan
A tool to reduce irresponsibly disposed-of chemical waste from industrial businesses. Users enter data about temperature, volume, and concentration into Trashnovator which uses its AI model to recommend the best disposal technique.
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.
Irish Tech Girls
Ireland
Unlimited Possibilities provides a range of resources to support people with Dyslexia, a neurobiological disorder that affects language processing. These include challenges, AI-powered tools to help with spelling, phonetic web sites, decoded books, and an online forum for teachers and parents. The app also includes dyslexic friendly fonts and warm-toned backgrounds.
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.
Veater
Hong Kong SAR China
Veater is a multi-use app that helps users track eating habits carbon footprint at the same time. Veater not only makes eating healthy fun but it helps you become your best veater eater self. Diet is one of the key factors to climate change. Veater logs your daily food intake and creates a summary of the environmental impacts. A carbon footprint points system allows users to compete with friends.
Vocali
United States
Vocali is a speech therapy app for stuttering children ages 4-12. It has speech drill games that improve users’ pronunciation clarity, speech challenges that ask them to interact with the real world, educational resources that inform them about their conditions, and individual accounts that track their progress. With Vocali, stuttering children will become the voices for themselves.
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.
TaLea
Canada
Activism Now connects users to their local activist community and helps keep them informed and active on important issues. Users can access interviews and information about local issues and upcoming events. Organizations working to address poverty, the environment, equality, justice and politics are featured to engage users in their local community.
Social Relay
India
Baton is an app designed to maximize the social impact of initiatives started by social work students in underserved communities after the students' internships end. Baton hands over incomplete social work initiatives from one intern to another, collaborating with NGOs, institutions and corporations to ensure confidentiality and social impact is maintained.
The Mayet Family
Pakistan
Cavity Crusher’s algorithm uses tooth brushing time to determine a child’s oral health habits. If the model determines inadequate toothbrushing, it will notify the parent. Prior to this prototype, the family built a model able to recognize images of toothbrushing. However, they determined more accurate results could be achieved with number data.
Robot Unicorns
Canada
Cloud9 helps children address social anxiety through a 3-step process. First users confide in Charlie, a friendly digital dog. Then a trustworthy and supportive digital therapist listens, asks questions, and offers advice to address their social anxiety. Finally, the Resource Hub shares stories from others with social anxiety, and links to local and online resources.
The Vega-Hidalgo Family
Bolivia
Duckweed Vacuum Cleaner uses a camera to collect data for its image recognition algorithm. Once it has determined that the harmful duckweed is present, the prototype (controlled by Raspberry Pi and powered by a DC motor) vacuums up the duckweed.
Young Inventor
United States
Epione helps diagnose opioid addiction by automating the immunosorbent testing part of the opioid addiction diagnosis process. It helps physicians and users monitor addiction through image processing algorithms that initiate, manage and visualize an addiction diagnosis. Results can be shared for review by experts and used to provide addiction guidance.
D3c0ders
Albania
GjejZâ is an app to help abused women. GjejZâ offers a test to diagnose your situation, breaks myths about domestic violence, shares success stories from other survivors, provides calming exercises, and offers legal, psychological and medical consultation options. GjejZâ also has an opportunities feature to help women find jobs, and an SOS menu with emergency hotlines.
Brain Squad
Nigeria
The Hands Out app allows well-meaning people all over the world to easily donate to children and their families to help them pay for school fees, food, shoes, books, stationary, medication and more.
Sugar Code
Mexico
Children between the ages of 9 and 15 are more likely to suffer bullying, sexual assault and other types of violence, which affects their long-term development. Justice Pop empowers children to share their stories of bullying and other problems instead of staying silent. The app provides and anonymous mailbox that teachers can review.
Equalito
Ireland
Live my Life is an immersive game that gives users a perspective into other peoples's lived experiences to provide insight into our cultural biases about age, gender, religion and race. It challenges the way people think, encourages interaction between different groups, and helps stimulate empathy and understanding that promotes diversity and inclusion.
Tech Witches
India
Maitri allows children at orphanages to spend time with senior citizens in old-age homes, thus improving their social and mental well-being. Maitri helps connect those individuals suffering from loneliness and depression and those lacking the nurturing love of elderly role models. Users can also volunteer and donate to old-age homes and orphanages through the app.
VALENTEAM
Bolivia
MINKA educates users on how to properly separate waste and give a second life to what we consider trash. MINKA promotes recycling and reuse by showing users where and how to dispose of their waste at local collection centers, or organize exchanges through a virtual community to give it a second life.
The Rana Family
Palestinian Territories
My Drawings Speak Up uses image recognition technology to analyze children’s drawings and notify an adult when a child is facing bullying or violence. The algorithm was trained using hand-drawn images from children as well as drawings from trained psychologists.
LiterTree
Cambodia
Khmer poetry is at risk of being forgotten due to its massive loss during the Khmer Rouge Genocide. Naeng-Norng (translated as ‘rhyme and rhythm’) is a platform dedicated to preserving this declining language by allowing readers and authors to connect through Khmer poetry.
Qoding Queens
United States
NotAppstention helps users become more informed voters. Users can look up their local representatives and where they stand on various issues as well as information about how to register to vote.
Powerful Daisies
Brazil
Safe Tears is a suicide prevention app that brings at-risk young adults together safely. The anonymous app connects users so they may give and receive support. Each user checks in on their mood and mental health using a "glass of blue feelings" that other users can check on and use to reach out.
PiFive Team
Spain
Scoutbot Waterguardian is a wearable device that uses an image analysis algorithm to determine if a swimmer is safe. To train their model, the team collected data from people wearing their prototype while underwater. If a person is at risk, the prototype will send a signal to a device that emits a red light.
Team De La Paz
United States
Shoo uses a live camera to collect images and pass them through an image recognition algorithm to determine if a dog is in a specified area. If an animal is present, the device emits a high pitched sound that deters it from staying. The prototype uses Raspberry Pi and the algorithm is written via Scratch X.
The Innovators
Uzbekistan
Spiky is a mobile application that helps adults recognize when a child is being bullied. The invention uses machine learning to analyze communications from a child to guess the probability of bullying. Spiky will send an alert to parents if action is needed.
CoCo
Kazakhstan
TECO is a 3D mobile game that merges educational and entertainment tools like augmented reality to help players change their behavior and become more eco-conscious. It presents real-life issues and challenges players to solve them while sharing useful information along the way.
Team Uproot
United States
Uproot is an iOS app addressing the harmful effects of invasive weeds on California agriculture. Users can identify weeds on site with machine learning technology or search a synonym-supported index of officially listed noxious weeds. Uproot offers information on any recognized weed and suggestions for weed control.
LPSN
Spain
When&Where is an emergency response app that makes women's lives safer. It obtains your location in real time, and if something happens – for example, if you stop or you are moving away from your destination – it asks you if you are okay. If you aren't, it calls an emergency contact or emergency services (112), depending on the option selected by the user.
FemStem
United States
Alleviate is a mobile app designed to help individuals with autism improve their social interaction skills and reduce anxiety in times of stress. Interaction features work for both verbal and non-verbal users. A relaxation feature includes a customizable breathing simulator.
Aspeechia
United States
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a common speech disorder that affects 1-2 children out of every 1,000. Aspeechia aims to help these kids develop better speech pronunciation. Aspeechia is similar to virtual speech therapy for parents and children.
TMWZ
Palestinian Territories
Be A Firefighter is a virtual reality game that provides a creative way to educate players on how to avoid starting fires and how to extinguish fires. It allows players to experience a fire and take an action to stop the fire from happening or extinguish the existing fire.
EDUTEC
Mexico
Care for Me - Alzheimer aims to improve and strengthen the relationship between elderly patients with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Primarily oriented towards caregivers, Care for Me - Alzheimer also allows patients to be listed as honorary users so that their needs are taken into account.
The Cantavits
India
81% of people dispose of e-waste improperly, which results in toxic fumes and polluted water. Eedo is an Android app solution that provides an end-to-end connection between e-waste producers and authorized recyclers.
Generation Z
Uzbekistan
Historically, women in Central Asia spend more time on household chores than men, a problem that still exists today. Parents further this practice when they delegate household chores mostly to daughters. ELIST was developed to address this unequal distribution by equally and randomly assigning chores to children regardless of their gender.
Save A Soul
Nigeria
FD-Detector (Fake Drug Detector) helps identify fake pharmaceutical drugs in Nigeria. The app leverages a drug’s barcode to verify its authenticity and expiration date. Save A Soul will also partner with NAFDAC (National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control), an agency responsible for regulating drugs in Nigeria.
JOIN US
Spain
JOIN US connects young people and the elderly. Through JOIN US young people have the opportunity to live in another country with lodging expenses covered, in return for spending time with their elderly hosts and helping with tasks like housekeeping and shopping.
Future is Female
United States
Lady Justice aims to give victims of the criminal justice system a second chance. Users can round up all of their past transactions and donate their spare change to organizations seeking to improve the lives of current and former inmates.
Magic Cards
China
Magic Cards helps young children with special medical and cognitive needs develop their learning abilities. Magic Cards was inspired by the creators' time volunteering with Shanghai Baby Home, a charitable organization that provides medical care to orphans with special medical needs.
BT Valencia Team
Spain
StopIt helps those who are suffering from gender-based violence, including physical or psychological abuse. StopIt helps those who are being abused defend themselves through mechanisms that do not require another person’s assistance as well as through mechanisms that require human intervention.
Thunderins
Egypt
Stray Paws is an animal adoption and safety app that connects shelters with people who want to adopt a pet. Stray Paws also has a “search and rescue” GPS feature that allows people to post images of injured animals to the app so that animal emergency services can quickly navigate to the site.