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Clamigo: AI-Powered Crop Health Management for Climate-Resilient Urban Farming
Small-scale farmers and community gardeners face increasing challenges adapting their farming practices to climate change. Without access to real-time...
FarmCloud: AI Chatbot for Smallholder Farmer Advisory and Sustainable Agriculture
Smallholder producers often face limited access to timely, reliable, and localized agricultural knowledge. Challenges such as climate variability, pes...
DeepLeaf: End-to-End Crop Health Management
Late and inaccurate detection of crop diseases, pests, and nutrient stress leads to $300B in annual global losses, with 40% crop losses in Africa and ...
FarmerChat - AI-Powered Agricultural Advisory for Inclusive Growth and Climate Resilience
Smallholder farmers produce a significant share of food in India and low- and middle-income countries, yet they face persistent barriers to productivi...
Advanced Raster Data Processing and Analysis System
Agricultural decision-makers and food security organizations face significant challenges in processing and analyzing large-scale geospatial data for i...
AI-Powered Farmer Intelligence for Inclusive Credit, Advisory, and Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Across Africa, over 60% of the population depends on smallholder agriculture, yet more than 70% of smallholder farmers remain excluded from formal fin...
MahaVISTAAR
India’s agricultural ecosystem is characterised by fragmented service delivery, siloed digital platforms, and uneven access to timely, localised infor...
Education
AI-enabled assessment and Personalized Adaptive Learning system for building 21st-century skills among students in government schools
Students in India’s public schools, especially those from low-income households, are entering a labor market where analytical thinking, problem-solvin...
Vinoba
India faces a persistent learning crisis. While 95 percent of primary school-aged children are enrolled, most perform poorly when evaluated for age-ad...
AI-powered Career Discovery, Inclusive Learning, and Task Automation for Persons with Disabilities
Persons with disabilities face compounding barriers in accessing education, employment, and public services due to inaccessible digital content, lack ...
LLM-based automated grading and personalized feedback for foundational numeracy in offline classrooms
Foundational numeracy learning in India is constrained by a critical feedback gap. In classrooms with high pupil–teacher ratios, teachers are unable t...
AI-Powered Personalized Learning on WhatsApp for Underserved Communities
Ekatra addresses the global learning crisis affecting 258 million out-of-school children and millions more with inadequate quality education. Traditio...
Blue Dot Experiment
Local labour markets remain fragmented and opaque, with trained candidates and job opportunities largely undiscoverable to one another. Employers, esp...
Khanmigo - AI to augment teaching and student learning
Despite a clear understanding of what effective learning entails, most classrooms in India and across the Global South struggle to deliver it. ASER 20...
AXL: Assisted Language and Math Learning
Many primary school students struggle with foundational literacy and numeracy due to varied learning levels, resource constraints, and limited persona...
Letrus Platform
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Automated Khmer Braille Translation System
Visually impaired people in Cambodia face significant challenges in accessing written content in the Khmer language due to the lack of automated Brail...
Environment
AI-based Smart Water Management
Almost 10% of the population in India lacks access to safe and potable water. Even though efforts are being made to provide drinking water to househol...
AI-enabled digital MRV for scaling agroforestry and trees outside forests in India
Agroforestry and trees outside forests (AF-TOF) are increasingly recognized as vital for climate resilience, soil restoration, and rural livelihoods i...
Financial Inclusion
Healthcare
Scaling Up Generative AI for Clinical Decision Support Across Ghana
Africa’s healthcare system faces critical challenges, primarily driven by severe shortages of healthcare professionals and diagnostic services. In Gha...
AI-Powered Clinical Diagnosis and Healthcare Platform Built on Meta's Llama Foundation Model
Access to quality healthcare remains limited globally, with significant barriers including cost, availability of specialists, and geographic constrain...
Fetosense: AI-assisted fetal monitoring for early risk detection in low-resource maternal healthcare settings
In many rural and resource-constrained healthcare systems, access to specialized fetal monitoring and expert cardiotocography (CTG) interpretation is ...
AI-Native, Hybrid and EdgeAI, Ambient Clinical Intelligence and Personal Health Assistants for Scaling Equitable, Standards-Based Healthcare Delivery in India
The primary challenge in scaling quality healthcare across India is the "Information Bottleneck" and "Documentation Burden" that creates a disconnect ...
Machine Learning and AI Use Cases for Maternal Health Users on MomConnect
MomConnect is a flagship digital health programme of the South African National Department of Health, designed to strengthen maternal and child health...
AI-Powered Digital Therapy Platform for Children with Brain based Visual Impairment (CVI)
Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) affects 36 million children globally and is the leading cause of childhood visual impairment. Unlike eye conditions, ...
PROMPTS: AI-Enabled, Two-Way Messaging to Support Maternal and Newborn Health
Maternal and newborn mortality in low- and middle-income countries remains unacceptably high, largely due to delays in care-seeking, limited access to...
AI in Radiology
The increased burden on radiological departments leads to high costs for treatment and rehabilitation, reduces the detection of oncological and other ...
Smartphone-Based AI Screening for Moderate Anemia in Pregnant Women Using Eye and Tongue Images
Affecting an estimated 12 million pregnant women annually in India, maternal anemia is a major contributor to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, ...
LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers
India’s public health system, which delivers last-mile services to over 900 million people, faces a persistent “data-to-action” gap that limits timely...
AI-enabled free dental check-ups tool
There is a lack of free, fast, and accessible dental check-ups. The app responds to this by enabling dental check-ups using five photos of the user’s ...
AI-Enabled Delirium Detection Using Portable EEG and Topological Data Analysis
Delirium is one of the most common, dangerous, and underdiagnosed conditions affecting hospitalized older adults worldwide. In routine clinical practi...
Cambodia Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Predicting Application (CAMPRA)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health challenge in Cambodia, driven in part by the inappropriate and delayed use of antibiotics. H...
Other
AI Powered Courtroom Transcription and Workflow Automation for Timely Justice
Judicial systems in many countries face severe delays due to administrative ottlenecks within courtrooms rather than legal complexity alone. In India,...
Deadly Coders
First Nations Australians remain significantly underrepresented in Tech and STEM due to limited access to digital education and pathways into technolo...
Barb
Barb is trying to solve for fast and accessible disability support planning for families across Australia....
WomBot
Limited access to timely housing support and advice for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, especially after hours, when services are typi...
DIVA: AI-Powered Government Chatbot Enhancing Public Service Delivery in Mauritius
Citizens often face challenges in accessing information and navigating services across various government departments. These challenges include limite...
