- Prize Amount – $1,000
- Deadline – March 31, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The Innovate Africa Fund backs innovators addressing the world’s most wicked problems through innovative and sustainable solution. This year, they’re pleased to launch the $1,000 annual Wicked Innovation Prize Competition in partnership with the Innovate Africa Foundation.
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention and True Innovation Solves Problems. This mantra is at the heart of our challenge to innovators, creators, thinkers, and tinkerers everywhere to identify and share the most pressing problems you are seeing and solving with us.
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Objective: Identify well-defined, high-impact, and solvable wicked problems that align with product thinking principles.
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Prize Information
- $1,000 prize for the entry with the most wicked and compelling problem statement.
Eligibility:
- Open to innovators, creators, thinkers, and tinkerers
- Applicants should be based in Africa
Criteria
- Clarity & articulation of the problem.
- Depth of customer understanding and pain points.
- Market opportunity and scalability.
- Feasibility of identifying an innovative solution.
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