Yes, we are funding individual students but you must have an academic mentor in the field of AI and or in the any of the four theme areas: HIV, maternal health, adolescent health. Also groups and startup organizations that are less than five years as well as those that are five years or more.

Every organization, with the necessary requirements as per the guiding document, is eligible for funding.

The available funding will cover up to eight grants; as per the successful applicants in any of the four theme areas.

Yes, you can apply through the university. There are different ways through which this can be done: one is that a university can apply as an established organization in which case you are part of the team in the university applying. Two, as an established organization which caters for institutions, research hubs, private and non-government organizations.

PhD Scholars and Masters’ students can submit their applications.

Yes, you do qualify. As long as your innovation is providing an A.I. related solution to any of the four themes which include Maternal and Child health.

This is a Sub Saharan Africa call and these are all from around Africa not only Uganda.

As you may know, any science grant needs to take care of the ethical considerations prior to making any of the innovations. We encourage all the applicants to take note of that, if you are using data sets that are going to come from the HASH project themselves, these have already received ethical clearance from the relative institutions from which the studies were conducted. However, if you are going to use new data sets you are going to ensure that you have ethical clearance to use those data sets. It may not be a full on ethical application but at least you need to have waivers that allow you to analyze that data or use whatever data sets that you want to develop the innovations from. We need to stick to the international standards in any kind of research.

You need to first get an academic mentor at the university and start applying but you must indicate the ethical clearance statement to assure us that you will be able to get clearance for the letter or the research that you are going to do.

The guidance document on page nineteen indicates the details of the assessment criteria; how the different aspects of the proposal. Please do check out the guidelines.

Yes, several teams from the same university can apply as long as the ideas are different and each team meets the requirements.

If you are not an established organization or a start-up, you should at least be a student affiliated with a university.

We encourage diverse teams; the team formation is part of the design of your project because the team should be able to support the institution of the project and it is one of the things the assessment criteria will also be looking at. Where it is possible to have members from different regions and different disciplines; that could be the potential you need. The added value to the team looking at the feasibility and other aspects of the project. This is an Africa-wide call so we would be happy to see emerging teams across the world.

Please reach out to our coordination team, our contacts will be shared in the chat, please reach out and we can follow up with the discussion thank.

Yes, if you have A.I related innovations around it as well as the data; ethically approved data sets and the research questions around that.

Yes, this is true for startup organizations and students we have that and for organizations more than five years old.

Yes, as long as it fits the criteria and can provide the requirements.

It is open to business firms/Companies, Universities and organizations

The ethical guidelines change within countries; you are strongly urged to clearly look at the guide lines in your respective country. However, the publically available data sets vary for example an innovation that uses twitter data that is publically available, you need to get a waiver. At the time of submission, you would need to tell us at least quote one of the guidelines that allow you to use publically available data without ethical clearance.

Yes, it is real for these 51 countries to compete for the 8 slots because its wide-spread call and we do not want to limit the applicants; we want to choose from the best.

We are targeting Academic institutions in Sub Saharan African countries.

Yes, the requirement is that you must fit in at least one of the four themes but we don’t restrict you. The goal is to have the primary focus; it might be optimal that you don’t do many thematic areas in one project but rather focusing on one theme. This ensures that you will have a manageable project and will avoid the risk of overlapping with other thematic areas since they are inter connected.

For a startup, we mean an organization that is registered and evidence of this registration must be provided. An individual can apply as part of the Organization or start-up or as a student (Masters’ or PhD) through a university and must have a mentor from that university.

You can only apply as part of that organization. Undergraduate students do not qualify for this grant application.

Yes, they can apply as part of that organization but not as a student.

Yes, as long as it is addressing particular practical problem. Make sure that your problem is well defined and the approach and application of A.I. is well defined in at least one of these thematic areas. What we need is demonstration that what you are proposing is feasible given your experience and your understanding of the problem as well as what you are proposing.

We do not define or describe the geographical scope but given the amount of funding that is available, we expect applicants to be realistic and define the scope that is feasible and achievable within the allocated time frame. We don’t accept the ambitious projects that aim to target the entire country, your entire continent within the terms that are available. So be realistic depending on the project that you are working on.

We are targeting African institutions in the Sub Saharan Africa to qualify for the fund.

Yes, you can still apply even if you do not have the physical prototype built yet.

We do have two tracks: research track and the innovation track. The research track means that you might be investigating new ideas where the contributions could be looking at new research outputs and publications. The innovations track considers the outputs that could be prototypes or artifacts being produced at the end of the project.

Each project should be specific to one of the tracks