TECHFARM Hub and Partners Commemorate 2021 International Youth Day With Ghana Youth Innovation and Accelerator Hackathon And GYIA Hack Awards Activities

TECHFARM Hub in collaboration with the Ghana Commission for UNESCO and MTN Ghana Foundation and support from the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC), National Youth Authority (NYA), the Melton Foundation, Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG), FAPIMPA Foundation, United Nations Youth Association Ghana (UNYA-GH) and other project partners organized Ghana Youth Innovation Accelerator Hackathon (GYIA Hack)  a minds-on and hands-on 24 hours hackathon to unearth innovative solutions from applicants with hope of receiving business incubation, acceleration and investment match-making support to enable them upscale.  3 Teams out of 16 Finalists were honoured as Winners of the maiden Ghana Youth Innovation Accelerator Hackathon (GYAI Hack) as part of the celebrations to commemorate the 2021 International Youth Day in the Eastern region of Ghana.

Ghana Youth Innovation Accelerator (GYIA) Hack Finalists Profile

TEAM NAME:

Team EduFund

NAME OF TEAM MEMBERS

Sosu Alfred

Kennedy Owusu

Irene Affum

Victor Owusu

WHAT TOWN/REGION OF TEAM

Koforidua – Eastern

TEAM IDEA

“EduFund is a platform that provides the avenue for students having difficulty with schooling due to financial problems to solicit for funds from the general public.

EduFund does not end by just providing funds to students. We also ensure and encourage students to excel academically and develop skills relevant to their field of study.”

WHICH SDG DOES IT SATISFY?

SDG 4

WHAT CHALLENGE/PROBLEM DOES IT ADDRESS

“EduFund aims to solve the SDG Goal 4(Quality Education) : Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Target Link: https://solutions.dial.community/sustainable_development_goals/28

EduFund solves the following targets:

Target: 4.1- Free primary and secondary education. With the focus on ensuring girls and boys complete their education.

Target: 4.3- Equal access to affordable technical, vocational and higher education.

Target: 4.4- Increase the number of people with relevant skills for financial success.

Target: 4.6- Universal literacy and numeracy

Target: 4.b- Expand higher education scholarships for developing countries.

Edufund addresses this challenge by providing a platform where students can solicit for funds easily.”

TEAM NAME

Agro Sourcing

NAME OF TEAM MEMBERS

Isaac Danso Asiedu

Richmond Zissu Nutsuglo

Andrews Yawson

WHAT TOWN/REGION OF TEAM

Afienya – Greater Accra

TEAM IDEA

“Agro Sourcing Limited is working to curtail agricultural wastage through inclusive, circular and efficient supply chain systems. We have developed a cloud based agricultural resource management platform that allows data controllers to identify and precisely capture data on value chain actors and their production/ waste generation activities in order to facilitate stakeholder linkages, increase market opportunity and build efficiency into agricultural logistics.”

WHICH SDG DOES IT SATISFY?

“SDG 9, SDG 12”

WHAT CHALLENGE/PROBLEM DOES IT ADDRESS

“Over 800 million Smallholder farmers globally are being excluded from the digital, financial and global trade economies due to the very informal nature of their operations.

Very high post-harvest losses are recorded by these smallholder farmers in most Sub-Saharan African countries like Ghana, arising mainly from inefficient, non-inclusive supply chain systems.

Collecting and managing agricultural data is expensive due to its volume and variability. Although, data has become the cornerstone for effective decision making in many contexts, Agricultural Data Controllers have a challenge accessing easy to use, cost efficient, and interoperable platforms to create and share insight which can lead to increasing market opportunities and build stakeholder collaborations.”

STAGE OF BUSINESS

Advanced Building Stage

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

We are differentiated from our competition in the fact that we have integrated a digital Marketplace into a data Management platform to bring agricultural stakeholders together and provide a system that allows them to easily collaborate and create and share opportunities.

USE OF THE AWARD PACKAGE FOR?

“We will use the award package to implement our Go-to-Market strategies. This will involve social media advertisements, and direct marketing. We will also invest in recruiting highly skilled new team members to help improve our digital product.”

TARGET MARKET & NEED OF PROTOTYPE

“Our hybrid Agricultural Resource Management Saas / ecommerce platform targets

1. Agricultural Data Controllers. – Organizations and individuals that have a mandate to manage data on agricultural value chain activities.

They include Local government Agricultural Departments, Farmer Based Organizations, Agricultural Cooperative Unions.

1. Agricultural Commodity trading actors like Agricultural Processing companies, and Aggregators.”

TEAM NAME:

Team CocoPlus

NAME OF TEAM MEMBERS

Matthew Azure Awini

Francis Ametepey

Fortune Asante

Aaron Aduteye

Hansen Aaron

Owusu Nyarko Felicity

WHAT TOWN/REGION OF TEAM

Accra – Greater Accra

TEAM IDEA

CocoPlus is a business that seeks to repackage fresh coconut in an eco-friendly way with an innovative medium (online) of reaching our customers. What makes CocoPlus so special is the fact that unlike the traditional means of selling coconut where people form long queues in this covid-19 times to buy, with just a click or a call, your preferred CocoPlus order (water only, fruit only or both and other packs) will be delivered to you at your door step or office without you over spending productive hours at a coconut joint.

WHICH SDG DOES IT SATISFY?

SDG 9, SDG 12, SDG 17, SDG 1 and SDG 3

WHAT CHALLENGE/PROBLEM DOES IT ADDRESS

CocoPlus addresses the problem of productive time wasting by especially students and workers who queue during lunch breaks to buy coconut and top executives who cannot queue at the roadside to buy coconut.

STAGE OF BUSINESS

Prototype Building Stage

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Our competitive advantage is the innovative means of buying through online at the comfort of your homes and the hygienic environment under which we package our products.