Happy Friday!
It’s Water Festival here in Cambodia and we are enjoying a much needed long weekend. This week I wanted to share six new funding opportunities for your technology and innovation work.
I hope these links lead to new projects and impact wherever you are working!
Have a great weekend!
Jesse
The inaugural Call for Proposals from the Notre-Dame IBM Technology Ethics Lab seeks to promote human values in technology through applied projects that address core ethical challenges of the digital age. The Lab offers $500,000 in funding for projects focusing on six core themes: Scale, automation, identification, prediction, persuasion, and adoption.
On November 9, during the Science and Innovation day at COP26, the GSMA announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation. This new Fund will help accelerate the testing, adoption and scalability of digital innovations that enable the world’s most vulnerable populations to adapt, anticipate and absorb the negative impacts of climate change.
The GSMA is looking for start-ups, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and social enterprises in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America and Eastern Europe that leverage digital technology, particularly mobile, to deliver climate resilience and adaptation solutions to and with low-income and vulnerable populations.
Nominations are open for the Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards 2022. The Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards recognize global excellence in food innovation and community impact.
Arrell Food Institute recognizes global leaders who are ensuring future food security for the planet, and hopes to inspire new leaders to take bold steps towards change. Scientific excellence and community engagement are necessary to overcome the challenges our world will face in feeding 9 billion people and beyond.
Southeast Asia Open Innovation Challenge (SEA OIC) brings together some of the region’s largest corporates to collaborate with innovative startups and SMEs.
The second edition of the SEA OIC will feature leading corporates across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. These corporates are looking to partner with innovative companies that can address wide-ranging challenge statements with their solutions.
If you are a startup or SME with an innovative tech-enabled solution, this is your opportunity to work with established corporates to co-develop, test and refine your solution, and accelerate market access in Southeast Asia!
Proposals are invited for the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Fellows Program 2022. Few stories are more urgent—and global—than the destruction of the planet’s tropical rainforests. The Pulitzer Center’s RIN seeks to create an ecosystem of collaboration among journalists to follow the money and the many illegal practices and legal loopholes that enable industrial-scale deforestation.
The RIN Fellows will work on individual and collaborative investigative reporting projects to systematically probe the drivers of deforestation across the three main rainforest regions (Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia), from money flows and supply chains to land-grabbing activities and human rights violations.
Apply now to join the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance 2022. The Lab is looking for innovative finance solutions that can unlock investment to tackle some of the most difficult climate and sustainable development challenges and investment opportunities for a net zero economy.
Proposed sustainable finance vehicles should offer returns for private investors, create jobs and other local economic benefits, sustain biodiversity, improve climate resilience and/or decrease emissions.