Women in technology challenge Scholarship by ITU Innovation Challenges

Published: 15 May 2020

Are you an entreprenuer with a global mindset? Is your innovation able to create digital impact in your communities? ITU is inviting applications from qualified candidates for its 2020 Innovation challenege 

The challenge is a global open competition platform for innovators and ecosystem builders to present their ideas and projects, empowering them to transform their communities into thriving digital societies. 

ITU and the EQUALS Global Partnership will support standout tech innovators who are helping and empowering women to excel in the access and use of ICTs  to increase their productive and economic capacity in sectors such as agriculture, textiles and apparel, and health, and to build prosperous communities. 

ITU Women in technology challenge

Application Deadline	July 31, 2020
Type	Entrepreneurs
Sponsor	ITU Innovation Challenges
Gender	Men and Women

Benefits of ITU Women in technology challenge

Three opportunities to win

1. Digital change-maker challenge: For innovators with ideas that create digital impact in their communities. 
2. Ecosystem best practice challenge: For ecosystem builders with good practices that nurture an enabling environment for innovators in their communities. 
3. Women in technology challenge: For innovators with digital projects that create impact for women in their communities. 

Requirements for ITU Women in technology challenge

The innovation challenge is open to all eligible startups with a minimum of one (1) year in operation, legally registered and incorporated in a developing country and at least 30% or more women owned, managed and controlled.

Your solutions should:

1. Ensure that women are given access to ICT platforms, internet connectivity and digital tools; equipped with digital skills through training and use of tech tools; and/or offered chances to develop leadership potential (such as entrepreneurial skills, network building, financial inclusion, etc.) by being active members of the digital society.   
2. Focus on facilitating and improving processes in one of the selected sectors (agriculture, textiles and apparel, or health) in which women are represented in significant numbers as both business owners and workers, by supporting them to access and use ICTs for development through scalable innovative solutions that will help them increase their participation in the economy. 

Application Deadline

July 31, 2020

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to ITU Innovation Challenges on cocreate.itu.int to apply

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