The jury of the 7th edition of the Challenge App Afrique has delivered its verdict. The ten selected candidates come from Cameroon, Rwanda, Benin, DRC, Tunisia and Morocco.
Started on November 10, 2022, the seventh edition of the Challenge App Africa unveils its first ten winners. The idea this year was to imagine the digital service that will contribute to the sustainable agriculture development. More than 800 projects were received and ten were selected to continue the adventure.
The finalists are invited to refine their projects in order to hope to be the grand prize-winner of an endowment of 15,000 euros.
The selected projects are as follows:
- Rabeb Fersi (Tunisia): Crop’s Talk is a mobile agricultural advisory application aimed at helping small farmers improve their productivity and resilience to climate change.
- Samantha Ruzibiza (Rwanda): Bazafarm, which literally means “ask your farm”, is a real-time soil quality monitoring device.
- Finagno Robert Agbovoedo (Benin): Ki@foret is a platform that links collectors of non-timber forest products and traders by supplying them to the highest bidder.
- Mbumba Lapaque (DRC): MukulimaSoko is a digital and physical trading and renovation center that offers several services to agricultural actors: an e-commerce space and a phytosanitary mutual aid space offering experts to share their knowledge and farmers to alert on the agricultural hazards that appeared in their plantations.
- Adamou Nchange Kouotou (Cameroon) : OGPM (Agricultural Project Management Tool) is a digital platform made up of 2 applications: A mobile application, which is used to collect agricultural technical risk analysis information; and a web application, which serves to recommend the best agricultural credit decisions and facilitate the technical and commercial monitoring of farmers’ production.
- Lucien Medjiko (Benign) : E-Pinea is a mobile application that connects pineapple producers to potential buyers through a dynamic map that allows pineapple fields to be located and their state of maturity to be viewed in real time. It also offers an e-commerce space that allows processors and suppliers to exhibit and sell pineapple-derived products and related services.
- Chris Ayale (DRC): Kivugreen is a digital platform that allows small farmers to have technical information such as the weather, the market price and agricultural advice; and which also gives them access to the market.
- Mounir Jamai (Morocco): Daki Farm is an ecosystem of applications made up of Daki Farm e-learning, allowing digital agricultural training in the local language and Daki Farm Smart Irrigation, allowing crops to be irrigated according to the needs of plants and weather conditions.
- Jean Gilbert Soh Ndeh (Cameroon): Initially designed to ensure the traceability and management of wood products from the forest, Pallitracks is a digital application which aims to also adapt to agricultural products.
- Pyrrus Orestes Kouoplong Koudjou (Cameroon) : Clinicagro is an application that offers advanced diagnostics of soils and diseases that plants can suffer. It also makes it possible to obtain various technical indicators related to the ground.
The jury for this first selection is made up of Valériane Gauthier, journalist at France 24 and presenter of the program Africa Weekly ; Anne-Cécile Bras, journalist at RFI and presenter of the show It’s not windy ; Aphrodice Mutangana, Director of Partnerships at Digital Africa; Pascal Bonnet Deputy Director of the Environments and Societies Department at CIRAD, Dr. Robin Duponnois, Director of Exceptional Class Research at IRD, Birante Sy, referent for the “agriculture” community of the 10,000 “coders” association; Eva Liliane Ujeneza, researcher affiliated with the center of the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda; Adam Yamoussa, support officer at La Fabrique in Burkina Faso; Filip Kabeya, founder of the Lumumba Lab; Aly Kouma, program manager at SAEI Donilab in Mali; Christian Jekinnou, director of Fanaka & Co; Annie Kamala Kyakimwa, founder of Agro Bibi; Meïssa Gueye, Investment Officer at IFC; Patrice Burger, founder and president of the NGO CARI; Ken Lohento, digital agriculture specialist at FAO’s regional office for Africa.
Launched by RFI and France 24 and its partners Digital Africa, CIRAD, IRD, AIMS, 10,000 coders and Fanaka & Co, the seventh edition of the Africa App Challenge aims to reward digital innovations that improve sustainable agriculture by Africa.