Call for Membership Applications
Application deadline: 25th Aug 2021
Background
Are you looking for opportunities to support African institutions and firms to find solutions to overcome key challenges? Or you want to connect, team up with and learn from some likeminded, passionate and experienced people in developing potential solutions to challenges faced by firms and public entities? Or perhaps you are excellent at finding solutions to everyday challenges faced by others?
Origin - Africa’s premiere interdisciplinary multi-tiered research and innovation support organization- is the right place for you to support the millions of entities seeking to overcome challenges and realized opportunities. You will have the opportunity to solve challenges from private and public entities with some offering a cash reward.
As a dedicated interdisciplinary research and innovation lab, Origin brings together some of Africa’s best to provides solutions to the continent’s most intricate, complex and inspirational challenges faced by the industry, public institutions and communities. Supported by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Mastercard Foundation, Origin’s ethos is informed by the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 of the Africa we want.
About the Origin
The Origin is a community of unique individuals that decode complex challenges faced by humanity using their unique skills, experiences and insights. Here, you will join an elite team of individuals who are passionate and dedicated at solving Africa’s most intricate challenges. Your age, qualifications, accolades and experiences are important but are not prerequisites. At Origin, it is your ability to help African entities – private or public, for-profit or not-for-profit – to overcome existing and emerging challenges and opportunities, and to anticipate and prepare for the future that matters.
Advantages:
You get the opportunity to help firms, public institutions or communities to overcome their limitation and to grow. You can also think of the potential your solution has in transforming lives and livelihood of many people. Should your solution be selected, you will become one of the winning solvers in the hall of fame. The recognition is a proof of your passion and capability to be a solver, and may enhance your reputation and hence opportunities of employment by users.
On top of that, Origin and its partner entities may provide some of the wining solvers of up to $5,000 cash award, each depending on the level of technological difficulty and the maturity of the solution (technological readiness level) proposed.
Join today and help drive sustainable development in Africa!
Eligibility criteria
All legal entities – individuals and teams of entrepreneurs and innovators are welcome to sign up, in Africa and beyond.
Intellectual Property and limitation:
All solvers will provide the challenge owner with non-exclusive royalty free rights to use and modify the solution to meet their unique needs. In return, the solver is free to further develop and protect its designs and inventions that may emanate from solving the challenge.
Click Here to Access the Online Application in Google Form
For Further information Please Contact:
- Asfaw Yitna – yitna@un.org
- Gedion Workneh – workneh@un.org