Discover the best practices in digital and technological products that respond to vulnerabilities and social needs.
The start-up Hiveonline links unbanked and remote communities of African smallholder farmers to financial services and trade opportunities to improve their livelihoods and financial stability. We partner with off-takers and banks to build an economic ecosystem for fair trade and access to formal credit for these communities.
Ecolana is a platform that makes recycling easier by providing its users with a digital platform that indicates the nearest collection centre in order to indicate the closest location to the users. Additionally, the platform has an application with various features that make recycling more enjoyable and allows users to earn benefits for their actions.
Ntchina, which means blood in a Gabonese dialect (Omiènè), is a community-based blood donation platform that makes it easier to find blood donors for blood transfusions, through its eponymous application available on Android and Apple.
The Mexican Red Cross (MRC) implemented a technological system that facilitates the collection, organisation and analysis of information on institutional management and intervention results. Its purpose is to generate an institutional culture of continuous improvement that responds to the problems and needs of the Mexican population and legitimises MRC’s intervention among interest groups.
