The victory of Tunisian Rabeb Fersi was unveiled during a special broadcast on Facebook live on the accounts of RFI and France 24, co-presented by Anne-Cécile Bras (RFI - "C'est pas du vent") and Valériane Gauthier (France 24 - "Afrique Hebdo").
Open to all Africans and young companies on the continent, this edition of the Africa RFI App Challenge - France 24 rewards digital innovations (websites, applications, etc.) to improve agricultural practices for sustainable agriculture.
Thanks to the support of the partners of the "Challenge App Afrique RFI – France 24", DigitalAfrica, CIRAD, IRD, AIMS, 10,000 coders and Fanaka & co, the winner wins a €15,000 grant for the development of her project.
As a reminder, the other two finalists of the competition were:
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Adamou Nchange Kouotou for "OGPM" (Cameroon): a digital platform consisting of two applications. A mobile application to collect information on agricultural technical risk analysis, and a web application that is used to recommend the best agricultural credit decisions and facilitate the technical and commercial monitoring of farmers' production.
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Pyrrus Oreste Kouoplong Koudjou for "Clinicagro" (Cameroon): an application that offers advanced soil diagnostics and diseases that can suffer plants. It also provides various technical indicators related to the soil.
About the Africa App Challenge:
Launched in 2016, the "Challenge App Afrique" is a competition, associated with a broadcast of RFI and France 24, and awarded in a French-speaking African country, aimed at developing the citizen Internet by encouraging projects serving the general interest. The first six editions rewarded in Dakar in 2016 Cheick Oumar Bagayoko (Mali), a young Malian doctor and computer scientist for his medical teleexpertise application "Bogou", in Abidjan in 2017 Raïssa Banhoro (Côte d'Ivoire), for his functional literacy application "Lucie", in Cotonou in 2018 Serge Auguste Zaongo (Burkina Faso), for his application to monitor the irrigation of a farm, in 2019 to Kevin Sesse (Côte d'Ivoire), for his project "Mon Artisan", a connected platform that allows users to solicit local artisans, in 2020 Amara Diawara (Guinea), for his project "Afriqcare", and in 2021 to Christelle Hien-Kouame (Côte d'Ivoire), for his project "Prenezlesfeuilles".
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