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AFD 2023 Digital Challenge for African Digital Startups in Cultural and Creative Industries | up to €45,000 per winner
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has recently launched its sixth edition of the AFD Digital Challenge.
AFD Digital Challenge is an annual competition open to digital start-ups that devise and implement innovative solutions for Africa’s development.
Every year, a theme related to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is identified and proposed to candidates. Hundreds of start-ups submit their projects, which promote digital technologies in education, training, health, transport and sustainable cities, rural transformation, the environment and the climate.
Sectors
Six Principal Sectors of the Cultural and Creative Industries
- Cultural and natural heritage: museums, historical places, archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, natural heritage
- Performing arts and festivities: performing arts, live music, dance, festivals, fairs and celebrations
- Visual arts and crafts: fine arts, photography, crafts
- Books and press: books, newspapers, magazines, libraries, book fairs
- Design and creative services: architecture, fashion design, graphic design, interior design, advertising
- Audiovisual and interactive media: film, TV and radio, streaming, podcasts, video games
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About Agence française de développement (AFD)
The mandate assigned to the Agence française de développement (AFD) in 2018 on CCIs reflects the ongoing efforts launched by the CICID in 2016 that acknowledges the transversal role of culture in meeting the SDGs goals. The Cultural and Creative Industries include the sectors of activity whose main purpose is the creation, development, production, reproduction, distribution or marketing of goods, services and activities with a cultural, artistic and/or heritage content. The cultural and creative sector has a huge accelerator potential to support recovery and foster economic oppor... read more

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AFD Digital Challenge
Aim and Benefits of AFD Digital Challenge
The competition identifies and supports the top ten talents for digital innovation in Africa. These winners benefit from financial support of up to €20,000 to realize their project and leverage its social and environmental impact. They also benefit from personalized professional and strategic support for a year. The high profile of the AFD Digital Challenge gives greater visibility to the winners and helps them make a name for themselves in Africa and internationally.
Requirements for AFD Digital Challenge Qualification
Your digital project involves one of the six main sectors of activity of the Cultural and Creative Industries (mentioned above)
Your project offers a digital solution to one of the following three challenges
- Transformation of the modes of production and consumption of cultural and creative goods and services
- Enhancing the value of African cultural heritage and legacies
- Promotion of inclusive access to cultural and creative content
Your project is currently in the seed phase (prototyping or beginning of commercialization with an indicative annual turnover of 0 to 18 000€), or in the acceleration phase (economic model and user market established with an indicative annual turnover of €18,000 to €250,000 per year
Your project has a legal structure based in one or more African countries
You are a startup or an association
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Application Deadline
February 24, 2023
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to
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