✔️ Congrats to Asbah from India for winning the $15,000 USD Cisco Employees' Choice Award!

👉 Winning Solution: Provides affordable clean drinking water to underserved communities via water filtration plants.

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✨ Congrats to Afriagrimark Ltd from Kenya for winning the $10,000 USD People's Choice Award!

👉 Winning Solution: Geo-location marketplace using distributed ledger & Machine Learning to connect farmers, truck drivers & vendors. #GlobalProblemSolverChallenge
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Thrilled to see USAID YALI RLC EA alum Norah Magero win the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge for VacciBox. She developed a portable, solar-powered fridge that brings temperature-sensitive vaccines and medicine to remote areas. Her creation is already used in multiple countries. Congrats, Norah!

🥈 Congrats to mSCAN from Uganda for winning a $50,000 USD Second Runner-Up Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: Develops mobile ultrasound devices compatible with laptops, tablets & phones for use in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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🥈 Congrats to Positive Carbon from Ireland for winning a $50,000 USD Second Runner-Up Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: Provides businesses with food waste monitoring tech to halve their food waste and save money.

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🥈 Congrats to WonderTree from Pakistan for winning a $50,000 USD Second Runner-Up Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: AR games that help children with special needs develop motor, cognitive, & educational skills.

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🌱Congrats to katchi.tech from Canada for winning a $50,000 USD Climate Impact & Regeneration Runner-Up Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: A fish net system that doesn't touch the ocean floor, reducing greenhouse emissions.

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🌱 Congrats to Working Trees from the USA for winning a $50,000 USD Climate Impact & Regeneration Runner-Up Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: Enables farmers to get paid for the carbon stored in their land's planted trees.

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🌱 Congrats to Farm to Flame Energy from the USA for winning a $50,000 USD Climate Impact & Regeneration Runner-Up Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: Provides power purchase agreements to buildings via biomass electricity.

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🌱 Congrats to Unergy from Colombia for winning a $50,000 USD Climate Impact & Regeneration Runner-Up Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: A decentralized platform that allows anyone to invest in & consume clean energy.

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🎓 Congrats to Salveo Innovations from the USA for winning the $50,000 USD HBCU Startup Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: An app that uses AI & adaptive language to help people understand critical health information.

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🥇 Congrats to Beamlink from the USA for winning a $75,000 USD Regional First Runner-Up (Americas) Prize!

👉Winning Solution: Reconnects people after natural disasters using advanced mesh networks & cellular tech.

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🥇 Congrats to PowerWells from Australia for winning a $75,000 USD Regional First Runner-Up (APJC) Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: Repurposing electronic waste to tackle energy poverty.

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🥇 Congrats to PurCity from Denmark for winning a $75,000 USD Regional First Runner-Up (EMEA) Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: Turning new or existing buildings into large-scale carbon capture air purification systems.

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🍃 Congrats to A2P Energy Solution Pvt. Ltd from India for winning the $100,000 USD Climate Impact & Regeneration Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: An AI-based platform that identifies usable biomass while connecting stakeholders to a market.

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Thanks to Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge Thought For Food @GYMobilization Samasource Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) JASIRI TechBridgeHub GlobalStartupAwards Yunus Centre, GCU. Building efficient agricultural logistics system in Africa. #Techforgood #Agritechafrica #AGRF2022 #smartagriculture

Huge congratulations to our 2022 #AfricaPrize winner Norah Magero - she was named as the winner of the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge for her innovative VacciBox, a portable, solar-powered fridge which can transport temperature sensitive vaccines and medication to rural areas in Kenya:

🏆 Congrats to Drop Access Limited from Kenya for winning the $250,000 USD 2022 Grand Prize!

👉 Winning Solution: A portable, IoT-enabled, solar-powered vaccine refrigerator.

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Thank you to the applicants who participated & connectors who helped share the Cisco #GlobalProblemSolverChallenge this year! We're thrilled that our 15 winning startups are from 10 different countries!

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