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Agriculture

14 Impact Stories
DeepLeaf: End-to-End Crop Health Management

DeepLeaf: End-to-End Crop Health Management

Late and inaccurate detection of crop diseases, pests, and nutrient stress leads to $300B in annual global losses, with 40% crop losses in Africa and ...

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Morocco
2023
Clamigo: AI-Powered Crop Health Management for Climate-Resilient Urban Farming

Clamigo: AI-Powered Crop Health Management for Climate-Resilient Urban Farming

Small-scale farmers and community gardeners face increasing challenges adapting their farming practices to climate change. Without access to real-time...

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Sri Lanka
2025
FarmCloud: AI Chatbot for Smallholder Farmer Advisory and Sustainable Agriculture

FarmCloud: AI Chatbot for Smallholder Farmer Advisory and Sustainable Agriculture

Smallholder producers often face limited access to timely, reliable, and localized agricultural knowledge. Challenges such as climate variability, pes...

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Indonesia
2024
KhetScore: AI-Driven Analytical tool for Inclusive Agricultural Finance Services

KhetScore: AI-Driven Analytical tool for Inclusive Agricultural Finance Services

Smallholder farmers in India are increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks and financial exclusion. 7 out of 10 smallholders admit lack of access to f...

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India
2019
AI-Driven Regional Crop Intelligence for Intelligent Crop Planning and Precision Advisory

AI-Driven Regional Crop Intelligence for Intelligent Crop Planning and Precision Advisory

Smallholder farmers in India increasingly face climate volatility, pest outbreaks, and rising input costs, while most advisory systems remain generic,...

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India
2024
Closing the 1:50,000 Extension Gap via Voice-First AI

Closing the 1:50,000 Extension Gap via Voice-First AI

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the agricultural extension gap is a critical barrier to food security, with farmer-to-officer ratios reaching an unsustainable ...

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Nigeria
2024
farmbetter: Digital AI-Driven Climate Resilience for Smallholder Farmers

farmbetter: Digital AI-Driven Climate Resilience for Smallholder Farmers

Smallholder farmers in Africa and India face increasing climate variability, pest outbreaks, soil degradation, and limited access to timely, localized...

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Kenya
2026
AI-Enabled Traceability and Digital Climate Governance for Deforestation-Free Agriculture and Carbon Markets

AI-Enabled Traceability and Digital Climate Governance for Deforestation-Free Agriculture and Carbon Markets

Global agricultural supply chains and carbon markets face persistent challenges including fragmented smallholder data, deforestation risk, weak monito...

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Côte d’Ivoire
2023
IRRI: AI-Driven Genebank Utilization for Climate-Resilient Rice Breeding

IRRI: AI-Driven Genebank Utilization for Climate-Resilient Rice Breeding

Traditional rice breeding and parental selection rely on slow, resource-intensive field trials and expert judgement, limiting the speed at which new h...

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Philippines
2025
AI-Powered Digital Public Infrastructure for Agriculture with Services to Farmers, Officers, and Policy Makers with Plot-to-State Level Monitoring

AI-Powered Digital Public Infrastructure for Agriculture with Services to Farmers, Officers, and Policy Makers with Plot-to-State Level Monitoring

Farmers and agriculture departments across India face persistent challenges due to fragmented data systems, limited real-time field visibility, and de...

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India
2023
FarmerChat - AI-Powered Agricultural Advisory for Inclusive Growth and Climate Resilience

FarmerChat - AI-Powered Agricultural Advisory for Inclusive Growth and Climate Resilience

Smallholder farmers produce a significant share of food in India and low- and middle-income countries, yet they face persistent barriers to productivi...

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India
2023
Advanced Raster Data Processing and Analysis System

Advanced Raster Data Processing and Analysis System

Agricultural decision-makers and food security organizations face significant challenges in processing and analyzing large-scale geospatial data for i...

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Sri Lanka
2023
AI-Powered Farmer Intelligence for Inclusive Credit, Advisory, and Climate-Resilient Agriculture

AI-Powered Farmer Intelligence for Inclusive Credit, Advisory, and Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Across Africa, over 60% of the population depends on smallholder agriculture, yet more than 70% of smallholder farmers remain excluded from formal fin...

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Kenya
2021
MahaVISTAAR

MahaVISTAAR

India’s agricultural ecosystem is characterised by fragmented service delivery, siloed digital platforms, and uneven access to timely, localised infor...

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India
2024

Education

20 Impact Stories
Letrus Platform

Letrus Platform

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Brazil
2017
Sunbird African Language Technology (SALT)

Sunbird African Language Technology (SALT)

Current Global AI systems have a systemic "language data gap" that effectively excludes millions of African language speakers from the global digital ...

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Uganda
2025
Learning by Teaching: A revolutionary AI co-learner

Learning by Teaching: A revolutionary AI co-learner

TUMO is empowering the next generation to lead the AI revolution by transforming the learning experience into a collaborative partnership. At the hear...

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Armenia
2025
AtenIA: An AI-Assisted Interactive Mentorship Platform for STEM Education

AtenIA: An AI-Assisted Interactive Mentorship Platform for STEM Education

In Peru, despite economically vital sectors driving national development, a significant gender gap persists in STEM fields. Gender stereotypes take ro...

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Peru
2025
Top Parent: AI-Powered Parent Engagement for Foundational Learning

Top Parent: AI-Powered Parent Engagement for Foundational Learning

India faces persistent foundational literacy and numeracy gaps that begin early, compounded by limited caregiver capacity to support learning at home,...

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India
2020

Amira Learning: An AI-powered Oral Reading Tutor for Foundational Literacy in Low-Resource Education Settings

Foundational literacy remains a global challenge, particularly in low-resource systems where large class sizes, limited teacher capacity, and infrastr...

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India
2020
Bridging the Feedback Gap: Scaling AI-Powered Personalised Learning for 4 Million Children in Rural India

Bridging the Feedback Gap: Scaling AI-Powered Personalised Learning for 4 Million Children in Rural India

In India’s early childhood education ecosystem, millions of children aged 3–6 receive worksheets through home-based learning models but lack immediate...

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India
2025
Digital Developmental Screening Tool and AI-supported Intervention for Advancing Inclusive Education from the Early Ages in ASEAN

Digital Developmental Screening Tool and AI-supported Intervention for Advancing Inclusive Education from the Early Ages in ASEAN

Across Malaysia and ASEAN, developmental screening typically ends at 18-24 months through vaccination check-ups, leaving children aged 2-6 without rou...

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Malaysia
2024

Expanding Equitable Access to Assessments in India through Digital and AI-Enabled Testing Systems

Assessments are gateways to education, professional qualifications, and employment, with English proficiency tests often serving as prerequisites for ...

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India
2023
Client-Side Voice-First AI Infrastructure: Democratizing Multimodal AI Access for India’s Non-Text-Literate Populations

Client-Side Voice-First AI Infrastructure: Democratizing Multimodal AI Access for India’s Non-Text-Literate Populations

400+ million Indians face systemic exclusion from AI-powered learning due to three compounding barriers. First, economic barriers - commercial speech ...

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India
2024

AI-enabled assessment and Personalized Adaptive Learning system for building 21st-century skills among students in government schools

Students in India’s public schools, especially those from low-income households, are entering a labor market where analytical thinking, problem-solvin...

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India
2024
Vinoba

Vinoba

India faces a persistent learning crisis. While 95 percent of primary school-aged children are enrolled, most perform poorly when evaluated for age-ad...

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India
2025
AI-powered Career Discovery, Inclusive Learning, and Task Automation for Persons with Disabilities

AI-powered Career Discovery, Inclusive Learning, and Task Automation for Persons with Disabilities

Persons with disabilities face compounding barriers in accessing education, employment, and public services due to inaccessible digital content, lack ...

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India
2025
LLM-based automated grading and personalized feedback for foundational numeracy in offline classrooms

LLM-based automated grading and personalized feedback for foundational numeracy in offline classrooms

Foundational numeracy learning in India is constrained by a critical feedback gap. In classrooms with high pupil–teacher ratios, teachers are unable t...

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India
2025
AI-Powered Personalized Learning on WhatsApp for Underserved Communities

AI-Powered Personalized Learning on WhatsApp for Underserved Communities

Ekatra addresses the global learning crisis affecting 258 million out-of-school children and millions more with inadequate quality education. Traditio...

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India
2022
Blue Dot Experiment

Blue Dot Experiment

Local labour markets remain fragmented and opaque, with trained candidates and job opportunities largely undiscoverable to one another. Employers, esp...

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India
2023
Khanmigo - AI to augment teaching and student learning

Khanmigo - AI to augment teaching and student learning

Despite a clear understanding of what effective learning entails, most classrooms in India and across the Global South struggle to deliver it. ASER 20...

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India
2024
AXL: Assisted Language and Math Learning

AXL: Assisted Language and Math Learning

Many primary school students struggle with foundational literacy and numeracy due to varied learning levels, resource constraints, and limited persona...

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India
2023
Xeropan platform

Xeropan platform

Language learners often have limited access to realistic speaking practice, especially in structured learning environments where time constraints and ...

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Hungary
2022
Automated Khmer Braille Translation System

Automated Khmer Braille Translation System

Visually impaired people in Cambodia face significant challenges in accessing written content in the Khmer language due to the lack of automated Brail...

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Cambodia
2024

Environment

7 Impact Stories
AI-Powered Fuel-Efficient Routing for Sustainable Transportation

AI-Powered Fuel-Efficient Routing for Sustainable Transportation

For years, navigation technology has focused on time efficiency, often not accounting for the energy cost of stop-and-go traffic, steep inclines, and ...

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United States
2021
AI-enabled digital MRV for scaling agroforestry and trees outside forests in India

AI-enabled digital MRV for scaling agroforestry and trees outside forests in India

Agroforestry and trees outside forests (AF-TOF) are increasingly recognized as vital for climate resilience, soil restoration, and rural livelihoods i...

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India
2023
AI-based Smart Water Management

AI-based Smart Water Management

Almost 10% of the population in India lacks access to safe and potable water. Even though efforts are being made to provide drinking water to househol...

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India
2023
AI-powered Energy Optimisation Solution

AI-powered Energy Optimisation Solution

Commercial buildings face significant energy inefficiency because HVAC systems are designed to handle peak conditions but operate under partial load m...

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India
2026

DeJoule: AI Powered Building Management System for Real-Time Hospital Cooling Optimization

Commercial buildings in India, especially hospitals, consume a lot of energy, with cooling systems using nearly 30% of a building’s electricity. Hospi...

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2026
Solvyn AURA: AI-driven Energy Management Solution

Solvyn AURA: AI-driven Energy Management Solution

Renewable energy operations are fragmented, with forecasting, plant control, and commercial trading handled separately by different teams and tools, w...

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India
2026
AI-Powered Real-Time Monitoring and Control System for Algal Biorefineries

AI-Powered Real-Time Monitoring and Control System for Algal Biorefineries

Algal biofuel and hydrogen production faces critical instability due to biological variability in living microorganisms. Small changes in temperature,...

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India
2026

Healthcare

25 Impact Stories
AI-Enabled Delirium Detection Using Portable EEG and Topological Data Analysis

AI-Enabled Delirium Detection Using Portable EEG and Topological Data Analysis

Delirium is one of the most common, dangerous, and underdiagnosed conditions affecting hospitalized older adults worldwide. In routine clinical practi...

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Japan
2016
Cambodia Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Predicting Application (CAMPRA)

Cambodia Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Predicting Application (CAMPRA)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health challenge in Cambodia, driven in part by the inappropriate and delayed use of antibiotics. H...

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Cambodia
2024
PROMPTS: AI-Enabled, Two-Way Messaging to Support Maternal and Newborn Health

PROMPTS: AI-Enabled, Two-Way Messaging to Support Maternal and Newborn Health

Maternal and newborn mortality in low- and middle-income countries remains unacceptably high, largely due to delays in care-seeking, limited access to...

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Kenya
2023
Project Saathi: Scalable AI for Gender-Responsive Health

Project Saathi: Scalable AI for Gender-Responsive Health

Women in the Global South face systemic barriers to healthcare access, where their needs are deprioritized due to unpaid care responsibilities, limite...

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India
2025
Thermalytix: Privacy-Preserving AI for Breast Cancer Screening

Thermalytix: Privacy-Preserving AI for Breast Cancer Screening

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality among women in the Global South, largely due to late-stage detection driven by socio-cultural bar...

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2017
Intelligent Applications Based on Medical Large Models to Enhance People's Healthcare Experience and Health Status

Intelligent Applications Based on Medical Large Models to Enhance People's Healthcare Experience and Health Status

Patient experience is compromised due to the gap between supply and demand for medical resources. Complex administrative workflows limit doctors' clin...

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China
2024

CerviScanner: AI-Assisted Cervical Cancer Screening to Bridge the Diagnostic Divide in Africa

Cervical cancer remains highly preventable, yet 94% of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries where screening quality is constrained by infr...

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Rwanda
2025
From Static Portal to Smart Assistant: Reimagining NTD Program Support with AI

From Static Portal to Smart Assistant: Reimagining NTD Program Support with AI

The WHO AFRO ESPEN Portal serves as the central knowledge and data platform for 48 NTD-endemic countries in the African region, hosting over 11.6 mill...

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Ireland
2024
AI-Driven Digital Stewardship System to Reduce Irrational Antibiotic Dispensing in Community Pharmacies

AI-Driven Digital Stewardship System to Reduce Irrational Antibiotic Dispensing in Community Pharmacies

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Bangladesh is accelerating due to widespread irrational antibiotic dispensing, self-medication, and lack of prescrip...

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Bangladesh
2023
Leading with AI: Kerala’s Nayanamritham 2.0 - A Government-Led AI-Assisted Chronic Eye Disease Screening Initiative

Leading with AI: Kerala’s Nayanamritham 2.0 - A Government-Led AI-Assisted Chronic Eye Disease Screening Initiative

India bears a disproportionate share of the global burden of visual impairment, with an estimated 8 million blind individuals and over 60 million peop...

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India
2019
AI-Driven Environmental Health Risk Prediction in Urban Morocco: The OCT7 SI Framework in Meknès

AI-Driven Environmental Health Risk Prediction in Urban Morocco: The OCT7 SI Framework in Meknès

Urban environments in the Global South are increasingly exposed to environmental health risks driven by air pollution, heatwaves, and rapid urbanizati...

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Morocco
2023
Qure.ai: AI-Assisted Tuberculosis Screening

Qure.ai: AI-Assisted Tuberculosis Screening

Tuberculosis (TB) remains under-detected in many low-resource settings, particularly among asymptomatic or hard-to-reach populations. Conventional sym...

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India
2022
Scaling Up Generative AI for Clinical Decision Support Across Ghana

Scaling Up Generative AI for Clinical Decision Support Across Ghana

Africa’s healthcare system faces critical challenges, primarily driven by severe shortages of healthcare professionals and diagnostic services. In Gha...

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Ghana
2024
AI-Powered Clinical Diagnosis and Healthcare Platform Built on Meta's Llama Foundation Model

AI-Powered Clinical Diagnosis and Healthcare Platform Built on Meta's Llama Foundation Model

Access to quality healthcare remains limited globally, with significant barriers including cost, availability of specialists, and geographic constrain...

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India
2024
Fetosense: AI-assisted fetal monitoring for early risk detection in low-resource maternal healthcare settings

Fetosense: AI-assisted fetal monitoring for early risk detection in low-resource maternal healthcare settings

In many rural and resource-constrained healthcare systems, access to specialized fetal monitoring and expert cardiotocography (CTG) interpretation is ...

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India
2019
AI-Native, Hybrid and EdgeAI, Ambient Clinical Intelligence and Personal Health Assistants for Scaling Equitable, Standards-Based Healthcare Delivery in India

AI-Native, Hybrid and EdgeAI, Ambient Clinical Intelligence and Personal Health Assistants for Scaling Equitable, Standards-Based Healthcare Delivery in India

The primary challenge in scaling quality healthcare across India is the "Information Bottleneck" and "Documentation Burden" that creates a disconnect ...

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India
2012
Machine Learning and AI Use Cases for Maternal Health Users on MomConnect

Machine Learning and AI Use Cases for Maternal Health Users on MomConnect

MomConnect is a flagship digital health programme of the South African National Department of Health, designed to strengthen maternal and child health...

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South Africa
2025
AI-powered Retinal Abnormality Screening Tool

AI-powered Retinal Abnormality Screening Tool

Despite significant advances in retinal imaging and treatment, avoidable blindness remains a growing public health challenge in India and other low- a...

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India
2016
AI-Powered Digital Therapy Platform for Children with Brain based Visual Impairment (CVI)

AI-Powered Digital Therapy Platform for Children with Brain based Visual Impairment (CVI)

Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) affects 36 million children globally and is the leading cause of childhood visual impairment. Unlike eye conditions, ...

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India
2021
AI in Radiology

AI in Radiology

The increased burden on radiological departments leads to high costs for treatment and rehabilitation, reduces the detection of oncological and other ...

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2017
Smartphone-Based AI Screening for Moderate Anemia in Pregnant Women Using Eye and Tongue Images

Smartphone-Based AI Screening for Moderate Anemia in Pregnant Women Using Eye and Tongue Images

Affecting an estimated 12 million pregnant women annually in India, maternal anemia is a major contributor to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, ...

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India
2024
LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers

LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers

India’s public health system, which delivers last-mile services to over 900 million people, faces a persistent “data-to-action” gap that limits timely...

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2024
Ambient and Agentic AI platform Reducing Documentation Burden for general practitioners and Dutch Hospitals

Ambient and Agentic AI platform Reducing Documentation Burden for general practitioners and Dutch Hospitals

Healthcare systems worldwide face a documentation crisis. Physicians spend an estimated 1-2 hours daily on administrative tasks, particularly clinical...

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Netherlands
2024
AI-Powered Clinical Intelligence for Automated Medical Documentation, Structured Data Extraction, and Seamless EHR Workflow Integration.

AI-Powered Clinical Intelligence for Automated Medical Documentation, Structured Data Extraction, and Seamless EHR Workflow Integration.

Healthcare professionals are currently facing an administrative crisis, spending a disproportionate amount of their workday - often hours after shifts...

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Netherlands
2023
AI-enabled free dental check-ups tool

AI-enabled free dental check-ups tool

There is a lack of free, fast, and accessible dental check-ups. The app responds to this by enabling dental check-ups using five photos of the user’s ...

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Australia
2026

Other

17 Impact Stories
AI Powered Courtroom Transcription and Workflow Automation for Timely Justice

AI Powered Courtroom Transcription and Workflow Automation for Timely Justice

Judicial systems in many countries face severe delays due to administrative ottlenecks within courtrooms rather than legal complexity alone. In India,...

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India
2023
AymurAI: Structuring Judicial Data on Gender-Based Violence

AymurAI: Structuring Judicial Data on Gender-Based Violence

In Latin America, knowledge about gender-based violence is trapped in unstructured judicial documents, accessible only through slow manual processes. ...

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Argentina
2022
Novissi Togo: ML and phone data to deliver shock-responsive social protection

Novissi Togo: ML and phone data to deliver shock-responsive social protection

The COVID-19 crisis disrupted livelihoods in Togo, particularly for informal sector workers who lack social protection coverage. Traditional social sa...

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Togo
2020
NyayaSakhi-SWATI: AI-Supported Pre-Litigation Guidance for Survivors of Domestic Violence

NyayaSakhi-SWATI: AI-Supported Pre-Litigation Guidance for Survivors of Domestic Violence

For many women experiencing domestic violence in India, the primary barrier is not the absence of law but limited access to legal knowledge. Financial...

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India
2022
Bridging the Digital Gap: AI Sign Language Interpretation Solution

Bridging the Digital Gap: AI Sign Language Interpretation Solution

Over 27.8 million deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals in China require sign language interpretation services, yet fewer than 500 certified sign...

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China
2022
NeuroDrishti: AI Smart Glasses for Enhancing Independence of Persons with Visual Impairments

NeuroDrishti: AI Smart Glasses for Enhancing Independence of Persons with Visual Impairments

Individuals with visual impairments often encounter difficulties in reading printed and handwritten text, navigating unfamiliar environments, understa...

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India
2020
Jan-Sahayak: A Sovereign, Voice-First AI Operating System for Accessible Public Services

Jan-Sahayak: A Sovereign, Voice-First AI Operating System for Accessible Public Services

India's 26.8 crore million Persons with Disabilities face a critical challenge in accessing digital public infrastructure. While government services h...

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India
2019
Alphakhoj: A NeuroAI-Powered Multilingual Literacy Platform for Neurodiverse and Inclusive Learning

Alphakhoj: A NeuroAI-Powered Multilingual Literacy Platform for Neurodiverse and Inclusive Learning

India’s foundational literacy crisis disproportionately affects neurodiverse children, particularly those with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs) s...

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India
2025
Making AI Speak 9 Indian languages: Open-source Text-to-Speech Models

Making AI Speak 9 Indian languages: Open-source Text-to-Speech Models

In a country as linguistically diverse as India, voice technology has the potential to transform how people connect with information, services, and ea...

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2024
Making AI understand Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda and Luganda: Open-source Speech Datasets on Mozilla Common Voice

Making AI understand Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda and Luganda: Open-source Speech Datasets on Mozilla Common Voice

To enable as many people as possible to benefit from AI, the technology must be able to “speak” and “understand” a wide range of languages, including ...

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Germany
2023

Chatur AI

Despite India’s large youth population, apprenticeship participation remains significantly below potential. While approximately one million apprentice...

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India
2025
Jhana.ai platform

Jhana.ai platform

Legal risk accumulates silently across everyday life events such as housing, marriage, inheritance, taxation, and disputes, yet citizens lack any fram...

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India
2024
OpengateLLM

OpengateLLM

OpenGateLLM (also known as Albert API) addresses a structural issue to the adoption of generative AI across the French public sector: administrations ...

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France
2025
Deadly Coders

Deadly Coders

First Nations Australians remain significantly underrepresented in Tech and STEM due to limited access to digital education and pathways into technolo...

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Australia
2026
Barb

Barb

Barb is trying to solve for fast and accessible disability support planning for families across Australia....

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Australia
2026
WomBot

WomBot

Limited access to timely housing support and advice for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, especially after hours, when services are typi...

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Australia
2025
DIVA: AI-Powered Government Chatbot Enhancing Public Service Delivery in Mauritius

DIVA: AI-Powered Government Chatbot Enhancing Public Service Delivery in Mauritius

Citizens often face challenges in accessing information and navigating services across various government departments. These challenges include limite...

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Mauritius
2023