Africa Challenge App 2020: Afriqcare, from Guinean Amara Diawara, wins the 5th edition

The Guinean Amara Diawara is the winner of the 5th edition of the Africa RFI France 24 Challenge App prize for his Afriqcare platform.

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Guinean Amara Diawara won the fifth edition of the Challenge App Africa award with his Afriqcare platform, allowing online medical appointments to be made and access to an electronic health booklet for health professionals and Malian patients and Guineans. 

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This year,

the price RFI France 24 Challenge App Africa

theme " 

the

digital e serving the fight against epidemics

 ."

Open to all Africans and young businesses on the continent, this edition aimed to promote the integration of new technologies in the fight against epidemics in French-speaking Africa, by rewarding digital innovations (websites, applications, SMS services, etc.) that make it possible to respond the needs of users during the onset of epidemics.

A little less than 1,000 projects had been received.

It is the Guinean doctor

Amara Diawara

who was rewarded for 

his “Afriqcare” project

, Tuesday February 16, 2021. It is a platform intended for health professionals and Malian and Guinean patients.

It allows the management of consultations and the making of online appointments, while giving doctors access to the patient's medical file thanks to an electronic health booklet and vaccination record, in order to facilitate follow-up.

Digital tools to facilitate care monitoring 

Diagnosed with a lung tumor during medical training in Paris, Amara Diawara discovers the use of digital tools for care monitoring.

"

I told myself that we had to give African patients and healthcare professionals the means to interact with digital tools

," he says.

When I received my patients, once I left the hospital, I no longer had any information on their journey.

It had to change

 ”.

Thirty-seven medical specialties are already listed on the platform, which also offers the sending of SMS reminders to properly manage consultations and vaccinations.

In Conakry and Bamako, the two Afriqcare teams “ 

work from morning to night

,” continues Amara Diawara. 

We have to go door-to-door to support healthcare personnel in their digital transformation 

.

With the 15,000 euros of the price, Amara Diawara intends to develop a new version of the application to improve it.

We are going to make the application easier to use, so that it is accessible even with low internet speeds," he 

explains. 

The new version will also be more reliable and more secure

 ”

The objective is to be the sector leader in French-speaking Africa by 2025.

Three other projects were selected as finalists: 

Denko Kunafoni

” 

by Malian

Fatoumata Bocoum

Tork

 by Ivorian

Joseph-Olivier Biley

and 

DiagnoseMe

” 

by Burkinabè 

Adama Sy Traore.

They will be supported from April 2021 by incubators to develop their projects.

They were the guests of

the special program

, co-presented by 

Caroline Paré (RFI)

 and 

Marjorie Paillon (France 24)

, broadcast on “ 

Facebook live

 ” on the accounts of RFI and France 24.

Launched in 2016, the Africa Challenge App is a competition, associated with a program from

RFI

and

France 24

, and delivered in a French-speaking African country, aimed at developing the citizen Internet by encouraging projects in the service of the general interest. .

The first three editions rewarded in Dakar in 2016, Cheick Oumar Bagayoko (Mali), a young Malian doctor and computer scientist for his medical tele-expertise application “Bogou”, in Abidjan in 2017 Raissa Banhoro (Ivory Coast), for its functional literacy application "Lucie", in Cotonou in 2018 Serge Auguste Zaongo (Burkina Faso), for its application intended to monitor the irrigation of a farm, and in 2019 in Kevin Sesse (Côte d'Ivoire), for its “Mon Artisan” project, a connected platform that allows users to solicit local artisans.

This competition is carried out in partnership with

Huawei, ENGIE AFRICA, Digital Africa, Société Générale, Africa Global Recycling, Emerging Valley, Next Einstein Forum, as well as African incubators of innovative companies. 

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