Call for Applications for the ICT4 Inclusion Challenge India Edition 2022

Digital Device and/or Application

You are developing a digital device and/or application, that is energy efficient, reduces carbon emissions and can be made disability inclusive and/or universally accessible.

Accessibility Solution for all in the Context Climate Action

You are building upon an existing climate change mitigation and/or adaptation measure to create an accessibility solution for all in the context climate action.

Raises Awareness

You are creating and implementing a program that raises awareness around technology-based inclusive climate action and inclusive disaster risk reduction.

Digital Assistive Technology

You are developing a digital assistive technology targeted at persons with disabilities or the elderly in the context of climate change related disasters.

Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction

You are developing a digital assistive technology targeted towards inclusive disaster risk reduction with a focus on disability and/or age.

Digital and/or Technical Solution

You are creating a digital and/or technical solution for persons with disabilities or the elderly to make every day infrastructure more disability inclusive and/or universally accessible (buildings, transport systems, roads)

• Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Tech Start-up or Company Founders, Changemakers, Tech Geeks.
• Persons who are at least 18 years old.
• Permanent residents of India or non-residents teaming up with an Indian organization
• Please note that current or past employees of Atos or GIZ, as well as their immediate family members, are not eligible to take part in the challenge.

To be accepted as an entry, the applicant must provide the organizers a prototype (see definition) of the solution proposed as a minimum. Products sold or applied on the market are eligible as well.

Submitted ideas will be evaluated considering the evaluation criteria described below. The teams/individuals with the top-ranked ideas will be selected to participate in the Accelerator Program.

Impact

1/3 weighting – The solution shall have measurable success in improving climate change mitigation or disaster risk reduction for children, youth, and/or adults with disabilities or elderly people (>60 years old) in India and be affordable, accessible, and realisable. If your solution is not targeted towards persons with disabilities (PWD) or elderly persons yet, you will have to outline why your solution would be especially beneficial for them. The participation of people with disabilities in the design, creation, development, or testing of the solution is highly encouraged.

Innovation

1/3 weighting – The solution shall be creative in how to reach the goals of mitigating climate change and reducing disaster risks for PWD and elderly people and should provide novel benefits to the target group in the respective context. These benefits could be improved access to climate change or disaster risk reduction related information, e.g. through inclusive early warning systems, but also improved access to infrastructure, which allows for inclusive evacuation in the case of disasters. It is expected that participants research if there are already similar solutions on the market and identify their unique selling points. Innovation can also mean that a solution which is already existent in high-income countries is adapted to the Indian specific context.

Scalability

1/3 weighting – Your solution is at least in prototype stage and has the potential to be scaled to an economically sustainable solution and business model. If technical, financial, or other barriers prevent scaling of the solution to other regions and contexts, the application will be discarded.

Code of Conduct

Applications which do not respect the Articles of the UN CRPD or other basic human rights principles (e.g. discriminating against any minorities because of their ethnicity, religion, language etc.) will be discarded.

Registration

Last Date : 22 Aug 2022

Pre-Selection

Inclusion experts will evaluate the submissions. 12 Teams will be invited for selection interviews.

Pre-Selection Date : 22 Aug 2022 to 6 Sep 2022

Selection Interviews

In-depth interviews will be held and rated according to pre-defined criteria. 8 teams will be selected.

Start Date: 13 Sep 2022 to 23 Sep 2022

Pitching

8 Teams will present their prototype during a private confidential event to the judges.

Event Date : 19 Oct 2022

Award

Awards to the 4 winning teams will be presented during a public live event to celebrate UN Day of Persons with Disabilities

Award Date : 2 Dec 2022