Digital Square, a global digital health effort supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and other donors, has issued its first call for African digital entrepreneurs interested in working in the health sector.
The call is open to African firms, nonprofit organisations, social enterprises, and independent entrepreneurs who have software, content, or services and intends to connect local solutions to funding, technical resources, and scaling possibilities for innovative entrepreneurs.
Qualifying participants will be included to a global list shared with donors, investors, and implementing partners that spans the whole continent. Additionally, they will be extensively publicised throughout the global health community as promising African digital health entrepreneurs.
An organisational capacity self-assessment tool from Digital Square will be made available to selected participants. This tool helps organisations become direct recipients of USAID funding and can be used to mobilise resources from a wider range of partners to support organisational capacity development and make it easier for organisations to become direct recipients of foreign funding sources.
A portion of the responses will also be given the opportunity to join the first phase of a project on the digital health ecosystem.
To apply for the call with a deadline of entries on August 12, 2022, click here
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Charles Rapulu Udoh
Charles Rapulu Udoh is a Lagos-based lawyer, who has several years of experience working in Africa’s burgeoning tech startup industry. He has closed multi-million dollar deals bordering on venture capital, private equity, intellectual property (trademark, patent or design, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, in countries such as in the Delaware, New York, UK, Singapore, British Virgin Islands, South Africa, Nigeria etc. He’s also a corporate governance and cross-border data privacy and tax expert.
As an award-winning writer and researcher, he is passionate about telling the African startup story, and is one of the continent’s pioneers in this regard. You can book a session and speak with him using the link: https://insightsbyexperts.com/view_expert/charles-rapulu-udoh