healthcare

Win $5,000 – Participate in the Virtual/Augmented Reality Healthcare Hack-A-Thon

Join TipHub for an exciting code-a-thon event to explore innovative ways to use VR/AR to solve healthcare issues. This event is powered by Tiphub and sponsored by NewWave Telecom & Technologies as part of Diaspora Demo Summit Code Challenge. Theme: Most innovative use of AR / VR for healthcare Tools: Unity, Github, Hololens Unity Edition …

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Apply: $100,000 Africa Innovation Challenge

Johnson & Johnson is introducing the Africa Innovation Challenge to encourage entrepreneurial thinking in Africa and the creation of consumer healthcare solutions that address the critical unmet needs of the continent. Throughout Africa, Johnson & Johnson is looking to drive entrepreneurship and help advance promising consumer healthcare solutions. Chosen applicants will receive a combination of awards …

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Apply: African Innovations Award

The African Innovations Award seeks to promote novelty among African businesses and individuals by inspiring the next generation to be distinct and establish outstanding businesses that can compete globally. The African Innovations Award identifies and rewards Africa’s innovative thinkers between the ages of 18 – 40 in the science and technology, healthcare, education, energy and …

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Attend: 2015 US-Africa Business Conference

Yale University in collaboration with the State of Connecticut African American Affairs Commission, Southern Connecticut State University, the United States and Africa Development Organization and the City of New Haven presents the U.S. – Africa Business Conference. The conference will focus on Energy, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Agriculture. WHERE: Macmillan Center at Yale University WHEN: September 17-18, 2015 REGISTER …

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Innovation and Health: Grand Challenge to Help Health Care Workers Fight Ebola

The Grand Challenge for Development aims to generate pioneering solutions to help healthcare workers provide better care in the midst of the Ebola epidemic. This challenge will unite the global community in the quest for ingenious ideas that deliver practical and cost-effective innovations in a matter of months. USAID needs new ideas to help ensure that …

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Microsoft South Africa Wants Black-Owned Software Companies

Microsoft South Africa launched a nationwide search for black-owned software product development firms to join its highly successful enterprise development program. The RFP is open to black-owned software companies across South Africa with a maximum of 50 employees and a maximum turnover of R15 million a year. The company recently kicked off a public Request …

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