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The African Innovations Awards (AIA) will host its first ever African Innovations award gala night during the 2nd Annual TEDxAccra event in Accra, Ghana.

The competition will explore cutting-edge ideas, tools, information and technologies that can help improve the lives of the people of the African continent.

The African Innovations Award submission process will run from September 1 to November 30, 2015.

Selection criteria

Participants would have to exhibit originality, marketability, scalability, social impact, scientific/technical aspects, gender and disability and sustainable Development.

Selection partners will choose 15 innovative ideas, three from each category to contest for the award during a 15 minutes presentation to the panel of judges at the African Innovations Demonstration Talk during the week of TEDxAccra 2016.

The winning innovations are determined based on the products’ uniqueness and their potential contribution to socio-economic development in Africa through increased efficiency and cost savings.

Prizes

All five winners, in each category will receive $5000 each and other prizes from our sponsors.

One-year development entrepreneurial  module training for all the 15 finalists of the African innovations award.