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This Wiki page highlights happenings and requests for proposals about innovation in Africa. Anyone can populate it. Just follow the previous entry in each category as a template to input your information. A Wiki bureaucrat will regularly remove outdated resources.

Events

 * 2018.04.05+3 - Yale's Contemporary African Arts & Culture Festival Africa Salon on Disrupting the Monopoly on "Superpower" for Black Youth & Interrogating the Politicization of Black Hair among others - New Haven, CT, USA


 * 2018.04.07 - MIT Africa Innovate Conference - Cambridge, MA, USA


 * 2018.04.07 - Columbia University African Economic Forum on African Innovation: Leveraging the Present to Shape the Future - New York, NY, USA


 * 2018.04.19 - IMF World Bank Group Spring Meetings #DIGITALAFRICA Digital Economy for Africa - Washington, DC, USA


 * 2018.04.19 - MIT Solveathon for human-centered design thinking process and help MIT Solve answer our 2018 Challenges - Cambridge, MA, USA


 * 2018.04.21 - Women in Tech CMU Africa 2018 International Women's Day Celebration on Building a new horizon: Africa at the brink of technology - Kigali, Rwanda


 * 2018.04.21 - IMF World Bank Group Spring Meetings #AFRICASOR The State of the Africa Region: Leveraging Innovation to Transform Agriculture and Energy - Washington, DC, USA


 * 2018.04.28 - ANSI #JPOTICFORHER Journée Portes Ouvertes des Femmes, Entrepreneuriat et Technologies - Niamey, Niger


 * 2018.05.04+1 - SOS SAHEL Africa Days - Dakar, Senegal


 * 2018.05.05/2018.06.23 - CcHUB re:learn Weekend Club Coding Club for Kids a fun programme introducing kids aged 5-18 years to computer science and programming - Lagos & Abuja, Nigeria


 * 2018.05.06+1 - #i4Policy First Africa Innovation Hub Convention alongside Transform Africa - Kigali, Rwanda


 * 2018.05.07+3 - Transform Africa Summit 2018 on Accelerating Africa's Single Digital Market - Kigali, Rwanda


 * 2018.05.16 - Africa Tech Summit 2018 where African tech connects - London, UK


 * 2018.05.18+1 - Oxford Africa Conference 2018 on ENOUGH RHETORIC! Catalyzing an Era of Concrete Action. - Oxford, UK


 * 2018.05.29+2 - Association of African Universities (AAU) first regional training workshop on KOHA, an open source Integrated Library Management System - Mukono, Uganda


 * 2018.06.04 - Global Solutions Summit (GSS) 2018 “From Lab to the Last Mile: Technology Deployment Business Models for the SDGs” - New York, NY, USA


 * 2018.06.05+1 - Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs STI Forum 2018 - New York, NY, USA


 * 2018.06.06+2 - Africa Innovation Summit 2018 - Kigali, Rwanda


 * 2018.06.07+1 - #Afrobytes Tech Marketplace to meet THE key players of the Global African Tech Ecosystems - Paris, France


 * 2018.06.20+1 - Carrefour Innovation et tourisme en Afrique de l’Ouest (CITAO) - Agadez, Niger


 * 2018.09.26+2 - 13th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education & Skills on "Uniting Africa" - Kigali, Rwanda


 * 2018.10.18+1 - DEMO Africa 2018 - Morocco


 * 2018.11.11+1 - VC4A and ABAN 5th Africa Early Stage Investor Summit - Cape Town, South Africa

Grants

 * DL 2018.05.16 - AAS Grand Challenge New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance - South Africa based


 * DL 2018.05.25 - AAS, Wellcome and Institut Pasteur Science and Language Mobility Scheme Africa - Human Hereditary and Health in Africa (H3 Africa) and the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science (DELTAS Africa) grantees only and scientists affiliated to one of the 10 member institutions of the Institut Pasteur International Network in Africa


 * DL 2018.08.31 - OWSD Early Career Women Scientists (ECWS) fellowship - up to USD 50,000 - 62 Science & Technology Lagging Countries

Prizes

 * DL 2018.04.15 - GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund for start-ups willing to work with mobile operators


 * DL 2018.04.20 - NEPAD SANBio FemBioBiz Acceleration Programme for female entrepreneurs in the biosciences arena - SADC based


 * DL 2018.04.21 - SustyVibes #StareDownOnPollution Campaign video solutions to the waste management issues in Lagos State - Nigeria based


 * DL 2018.05.18 - Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in Sub Sahara Africa - IoT, eCommerce, FinTech, marketing tech, sharing Eco, venture for good - up to 50000$ & support development program


 * DL 2018.05.20 - She Leads Africa Accelerator program for mentorship, funding, networking - Lagos-based all-female in Tech businesses


 * DL 2018.05.23 - Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2018 - pan-African


 * DL 2018.06.15 - DEMO Africa 2018 call for startups - win a Lions@frica Innovation Tour in Silicon Valley


 * DL 2018.06.23 - OGP ToolBox Outiller la Communauté Africaine Francophone call for scalable open data projects on sustainable development goals or participatory governance - support to reach the prototype phase - pan-African


 * DL 2018.07.23 - RAEng Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation


 * DL 2018.08.20 - The ReSAKSS Data Challenge 2018 call for the most innovative Essays and Reports, Visual Arts, IT products and services, High School Projects - pan-African (incl. Diaspora)


 * DL 2018.09.01 - Johnson & Johnson Champions of Science Africa Storytelling Challenge about your journey of scientific research and innovation - format written or video - pan-African

Courses

 * DL 2018.04.09 - AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy 2018 - 20-24AUG2018 - Trieste, Italy


 * DL 2018.04.20 - African Union Pan African University call for students 2018/2019 - pan-African Master and PhD scholarships


 * DL 2018.04.30 - IAP African Academies Diaspora Fellows Pilot Program - 7-day Diaspora fellow visit to the host academy


 * DL 2018.05.05 - AAS Africa Science Desk for journalists in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa to produce science stories aimed at local or global news markets - Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa


 * DL 2018.05.11 - AAS, BMGF, US-NIH African Postdoctoral Training Initiative on infectious diseases, nutrition, and reproductive, maternal, and child health and developing skills for clinical and translational research - two-year postdoctoral fellowship


 * DL 2018.05.11 - AHRI MSc scholarship for a taught MSc at University College London (UCL) - University of KwaZulu-Natal students in biological, health, population and statistical sciences


 * DL 2018.05.14 - NRF-Nuffic Doctoral Scholarships 2018 in areas of (i) Science, (ii) Engineering, (iii) Technology, (iv) the Social Sciences and (v) Humanities - South Africa / the Netherlands


 * DL 2018.05.15 - UNIDO/GIZ EQuIP Training of Trainers for industrial policy design and the analysis of industrial performance (across social, economic and environmental dimensions) - 16-27JUL2018 - Bonn, Germany


 * DL 2018.05.20 - Princeton University, African History Postdoctoral Research Associate, African History, Oral History and Migration History - AUG2018-JUL2019 - Princeton, NJ, USA


 * DL 2018.06.01 - OWSD PhD Fellowships for Women Scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries - OWSD eligible countries


 * DL 2018.08.31 - University of Pretoria’s Master’s in Development Practice (MDP@UP) on knowledge, leadership competence and technical skills needed to the implement the SDGs - hybrid online and face-to-face learning & multidisciplinary - Pretoria, South Africa