AI4Dev 2020

A collaboration with Nile University and the United Nations: the website of AI4Dev 2020, a challenge for AI ideas across Arab and African states.

In collaboration with: Nile University and the United Nations
Sector: International development
Location: Arab and African states
Languages: English

Built with Nile University and the United Nations.

AI4Dev 2020 looked for AI ideas that serve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in Arab and African states. We collaborated with Nile University and the United Nations on its website, which presents the challenge, its goals, its winners and its partners.

Who was involved

Nile University A technology partner on the challenge, and the university behind NilePreneurs, which facilitated it.
International Telecommunication Union The UN agency for digital technologies, and the challenge's organizer.
FAO, UNDP, UNESCO and WHO The challenge's UN partners.

The challenge, by its own numbers.

200+
applications: 100+
trainings: 4
UN development goals

Walk through the real product.

These are real captures. Keep scrolling and the window moves to each part we point out.

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The UN's goals, in the first line.
The first screen puts the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals under the title, followed by the challenge's applications, trainings, countries and winners.
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Who runs it, stated up front.
The first section says it plainly: organized by the International Telecommunication Union, facilitated by NilePreneurs, in partnership with UN agencies.
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Four UN goals, one card each.
Zero hunger, good health, decent work and industry each get a card, with the goal's own number and color.
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The UN partners, by name.
The partners section lists FAO, UNDP, UNESCO and WHO as UN partners, right after ITU as organizer and NilePreneurs as facilitator.
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Nile University among the technology partners.
The university sits in the same row as GSMA, IBM and RAIN, with its name in English and Arabic on its logo.