Challenge App Afrique 2022: who are the ten finalists?

Started on November 10, 2022, the seventh edition of the Africa App Challenge unveils its first ten winners.

The idea this year was to imagine the digital service that will contribute to the development of sustainable agriculture.

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:

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: Crop's Talk is a mobile agricultural advisory application aimed at helping small farmers improve their productivity and resilience to climate change.

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: Bazafarm, which literally means “ask your farm”, is a real-time soil quality monitoring device.

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: Ki@foret is a platform that connects collectors of non-timber forest products and traders by supplying them to the highest bidder.

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: MukulimaSoko is a digital and physical trading and renovation center offering several services to agricultural actors: an e-commerce space and a phytosanitary mutual aid space offering experts to share their knowledge and farmers to warn about agricultural hazards that have appeared in their plantations.

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: OGPM (Agricultural Project Management Tool) is a digital platform consisting of two applications: a mobile application used to collect agricultural technical risk analysis information, and a web application recommending the best agricultural credit decisions and facilitating the technical and commercial monitoring of farmers' production.

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: E-Pinea is a mobile application that connects pineapple producers to potential buyers through a dynamic map allowing them to locate pineapple fields and view their state of maturity in real time. .

It also offers an e-commerce space that allows processors and suppliers to display and sell pineapple-derived products and related services.

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: Kivugreen is a digital platform that provides small farmers with technical information such as weather, market prices and agricultural advice – and gives them access to the market.

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: 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 the plants and weather conditions.

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: 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.

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: Clinicagro is an application that offers in-depth diagnostics of soils and diseases that plants may 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 “Afrique Hebdo”;

Anne-Cécile Bras, journalist at RFI and presenter of the show “C'est pas du vent”;

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 of the “agriculture” community of the 10,000 “coders” association;

Eva Liliane Ujeneza, researcher affiliated with the center of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda;

Adam Yamoussa, support officer at La Fabrique in Burkina Faso;

Filip Kabeya, founder of 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, France 24 and their 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.

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