The Global Innovation Fund is open for social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people.

Funding structure:

• Pilot: Early state innovation project. Looking for testing core assumptions and financial viability (Maximum amount per project is US$230,000).
• Test and Transition: The innovation project has completed initial testing and is now transitioning to a larger scale(The maximum amount per project is $2.3 million)
• Scale: The innovation project has solid operational, social and financial viability. The project has improved the lives of those living on less than $5 PPP per day. You want to replicate the project in new countries( Maximum amount per project is $15 million)

Who is Eligibility: Private companies, NGOs, Institutions and government agencies.

Location: Developing countries 

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THE CHALLENGE: How can digital identification systems in developing countries be better designed or adapted to protect people’s privacy and empower them with greater control over their personal data?

The World Bank is looking for creative ideas, components, the innovative use of existing technologies or complete solutions from academics, entrepreneurs, scientists, technologists, and engaged citizens

1. Provide greater oversight and control of personal data. 

The initiative that enables users to inspect, update and correct personal data; provide transparency regarding who has accessed their data and for what purpose; and the ability to seek redress for unauthorized use.

2. Prevent the misuse of personal data.  

The initiative that can protect misuse or unintended disclosure, such as through minimizing, hiding, compartmentalizing personal data, tamper-proof logs, or other means

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The Imagining Africa's Futures project is launching a call for expressions of interest for local champions in Africa. Local champions are expected to be key constituents of UNESCO and its partners' effort to conduct research in Futures Literacy by co-designing and co-running Futures Literacy Laboratories in their local communities. Local champions can be a team of driven individuals or organizations. Futures Literacy Laboratories (FLL) are currently in the prototyping phase of the innovation cycle.

Objectives

• Revealing people’s anticipatory assumptions,
• Enhancing their capacity to use the future for different reasons and in different ways in different contexts,
• Enabling them to ask new questions, and
• Allowing for a better understanding of what is FL and how to design/conduct FLL
• Reveal Novelty rather than Predictions: The shift Futures Literacy suggests is from Anticipation-for-Future to Anticipation-for-Emergence.

Role of a Local Champion

The local champion will take the lead in the determining the specific topic, participants, tools and follow-up related to the FLL-NP. They will take responsibility for a significant share of the costs of implementing the FLL-NP. Any candidate who expresses interest in conducting an FLL-NP is committed to becoming a key constituent and actor of the research process for the refinement and assessment of the IAF prototype.

Submission Deadline: open call. Deadline for the first wave of selections: 24 March 2019.

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Are you an ambitious scale-up that is creating a more sustainable travel industry? Do you want to learn from one of the industry’s biggest players to grow both your business and impact? Would you like the opportunity to pitch for up to €500,000?