Digital Square: Open Call for Digital Entrepreneurs in Africa 2022

About the Opportunity:

Digital Square is pleased to announce its first call for digital entrepreneurs based in Africa interested in working in the health sector. This call seeks to connect local solutions to financial assistance, technical resources, and opportunities to scale for innovative entrepreneurs.

Benefits of the Opportunity:

Become part of a continent-wide list that will be shared with donors, investors, and implementing partners globally.
Be alerted to 3rd party funding opportunities.
Pending the availability of resources, Digital Square will offer an organizational capacity self-assessment tool that supports organizations in becoming direct recipients of international funding sources.

Additionally, a subset of respondents will be invited to participate in a DHE-funded request for application. Successful applicants in the request for application round will:

Have access to financial capital required to develop, deploy and implement scalable digital health products. This financial support will initially be through a grants program and later through a partnership with existing donor programs and government co-investment.
Gain visibility into existing developer communities that exist for co-learning and collaboration.
Know what open source health tools exist and what is available for adaptation and could save time and resources in local development
Have support in adapting open source solutions—even and especially from digital public goods
Gain increased visibility in the global health development sector

Eligibility Criteria:

They invite EOIs from African organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs with the following profiles:

Demonstrated ability to support the implementation of software tools and products.
An interest in engaging in the digital health space of a country and willingness to work with local governments, private sector health providers and health insurance schemes.
Willingness to engage populations at scale; including populations that cannot directly purchase from vendors, but may be government beneficiaries.
Team includes members with software expertise.
Registered as a formal organization or business in the WHO SSA Region (Sub Saharan Africa), with sufficient accounting mechanisms to track revenue and expenditures