2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

SEMI-FINALISTS

This year the Tech-I competition received a record 502 applications. Following initial review at AAAS, 428 applications went to the next review stage conducted by the expert panels. Over 70 regional, scientific and technological, and innovation and entrepreneurship experts from around the world participated in the review process assessing: the feasibility of the idea/start-up; and the potential societal impact and target market of the idea/startup including a consideration as to what problems the idea solves, what the benefits of such an idea are, and how this product compares to others. Each application was reviewed by a minimum of 3 experts within a specific panel focused on their region and application sector.

We are proud to announce that the 2014 GIST Tech-I semi-finalists are as follows:

Page/Applicant Country of Citizenship Adwoa Asiedua Boateng Ghana Alexandr Iscenco Moldova Alieu Jallow Gambia Alim Khamitov Kazakhstan Aubakirova Aisha Kazakhstan Bashkim Shalla Albania Behaylu Abreha Ethiopia Blessing Mene Nigeria Carlos Cortes Manica Mexico Carmen Patricia Ayerdis Espinoza Nicaragua Charles Akhimien Nigeria Chinedu Okoro Nigeria Chola Sapwe Zambia Clara Ortega Guatemala Cynthia Ndubuisi Nigeria David Gluckman South Africa Dessy Aliandrina Indonesia Dmitri Dawkins Jamaica Edmund Ainebyona Uganda Edwin Kestler Guatemala Emilia Díaz Chile Eric Wamakima Kenya Eshmuradov Dilmurod Uzbekistan Fatima Guadalupe Rocha Arguelles Mexico Gargy Lahiry Bangladesh Geoffrey Salter South Africa Gerardo Jose Honduras

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Hendriyadi Bahtiar Daeng Sila Indonesia Hessa Al Shehhi United Arab Emirates Igili Onyedikachukwu Nigeria Ilyasse Belkacem Algeria Islam Azeddine Mennouchi Algeria Jermaine Henry Jamaica José Manuel Sánchez Chile Jossue Amador Honduras Juan Carlos Guaqueta Colombia Kamal Alhmoud Jordan Khouloud Sederi Tunisia Leonardo Nunes Chile Lisa Katusiime Uganda Maher Maymoun Jordan Maksym Filyak Ukraine Mawano Kambeu Zambia Meriem Chehih Algeria Mixon Faluweki Malawi Moath Alatefi Yemen Mohammed Jaber Jordan Muchu Kaingu Zambia Oleksandr Diatlov Ukraine Pavel Santos Dominican Republic PC Lai Malaysia Rene Castro El Salvador Sahed Mahmud Bangladesh Saima Shivji Pakistan Sartika Kurniali Indonesia Shahd AlShehail Saudi Arabia Shahzeb Mirza Pakistan Sheldon Duncombe Jamaica Tashia Kalondo Namibia Tonmoy Paul Bangladesh Victor Manuel Higareda Alvear Mexico Waleed Jan Saudi Arabia Wassim Zoghlami Tunisia Yassine Zyad Morocco Yerkin Orazaliyev Kazakhstan Zied Hosni Tunisia

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

SEMI-FINALISTS BY REGION:

Eurasia

Alim Khamitov

Team Name: RobiGroup, Project ‘Dozor’

Category: Idea

Sector: ICT

Country: Kazakhstan

Brief Summary: Development of GSM door phones which can replace or enhance security systems in Kazakhstan.

Aubakirova Aisha

Team Name: Giksocopter

Category: Idea

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Kazakhstan

Brief Summary: Creating a database on the most dangerous pests, weeds and diseases, development of short and long term patterns of development, zoning of the risk level of mass reproduction and epiphytoties has great scientific and practical importance utilizing remote sensing of the earth (RSE), Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS).

Dessy Aliandrina

Team Name: I-Site: Emerging Tourism through One Stop Portal

Category: Idea

Sector: ICT

Country: Indonesia

Brief Summary: I-Site is designed to provide internet and mobile users with tourism information in one portal. I-Site idea emerged from a gap in online information available about West Sumatra, Indonesia.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Eshmuradov Dilmurod

Team Name: UzSolar

Category: Idea

Sector: Energy

Country: Uzbekistan

Brief Summary: UzSolar is to offer photovoltaic power system (solar power system) products to all provinces of Uzbekistan.

Gargy Lahiry

Team Name: CelltiF

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Bangladesh

Brief Summary: CelltiF are autologous Fibroblast fillers for aesthetic use. Fibroblasts are dermal cells that secret collagen. This collagen is responsible for the elasticity of the young skin, and the procedure thus rectifies loss of elasticity and thinning of the dermal layer. The Fibroblasts are isolated from patient’s own skin and cultured in a controlled environment using patient’s own serum.

Hendriyadi Bahtiar Daeng Sila

Team Name: Juku Kalotoro

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Indonesia

Brief Summary: Juku Kalotoro is an alternative income for a fisherman’s wife utilizing traditional tools to produce dry fish.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Maksym Filyak

Team Name: Eco-cooperative in small greenhouse farming

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Ukraine

Brief Summary: To research and identify opportunities for improving efficiency of greenhouse farming using innovative, alternative energy sources and installations.

Oleksandr Diatlov

Team Name: EcoisMe

Category: Start Up

Sector: Energy

Country: Ukraine

Brief Summary: EcoisMe provide easy, cheap and effective solution for monitoring and saving energy at your home.

PC Lai

Team Name: GlobalCLAS

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Malaysia

Brief Summary: GlobalCLAS is positioning MySIM™ as the first SIM card to be Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled to work on any mobile phones. It will allow any mobile phones to replace all the cards in the wallet.

Sahed Mahmud

Team Name: Eco-Farmer

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Bangladesh

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Brief Summary: Eco-farmer is developing and delivering a lignin based agricultural solution that will provide farmers with an alternative to toxic pesticides. Eco-farmer offers a “four in one” product ECO-4 which works for four major actions for plant such as slow-released fertilizer, Insect-repellent, micro-nutrient, and growth-stimulator.

Saima Shivji

Team Name: e-NovatRx

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Pakistan

Brief Summary: e-NovatRx is a POS SmartCard technology which can automate the entire pharmaceutical purchase/reimbursement system in Pakistan.

Sartika Kurniali

Team Name: Ami

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Indonesia

Brief Summary: Microinsurance mobile application for Indonesia facilitating registration, remote access to client information, cashless transactions for collection and payment of premiums, and in the case of health insurance, client access to coverage information and the claims process.

Shahzeb Mirza

Team Name: Magision

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Pakistan

Brief Summary: Magision enable individuals to interact with the digital world irrespective of their knowledge of, and experience with, computers by combining intuitive control of hands in air (accuracy of up to millimeters), moving beyond the User

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Interface of a touch screen or mouse and designing hardware that produces holographic images viewable from 360 degrees.

Tonmoy Paul

Team Name: diaSMASH

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Bangladesh

Brief Summary: diaSMASH beverage is an engineered health technology with a core ingredient of mushroom. It is the first ever health drink in Bangladesh, proven and tested to reduce blood glucose by 13.3% (thus, combats diabetes). It also reduces LDL cholesterol and Triglyceride (prevents cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and high blood pressure).

Yerkin Orazaliyev

Team Name: Annular wind turbine

Category: Idea

Sector: Energy

Country: Kazakhstan

Brief Summary: To build a wind farm with 2 annular windmills and a capacity of 1MW. Annular wind turbine comprises of: escapement (guide rotation) and oscillatory circuit (pendulum) in the form of blade combined with return mechanism.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Latin American & The Caribbean

Carlos Cortes Manica

Team Name: Energías Renovables del Sureste S.A. de C.V.

Category: Start Up

Sector: Energy

Country: Mexico

Brief Summary: To design and develop a prototype of solar air conditioning for installation in houses in regions of Mexico with warm climate. Energías Renovables del Sureste S.A. de C.V. began developments using the solar thermal power instead of LP gas as a way to improve productivity in the industry of masa and tortilla in the state of Yucatan, Mexico.

Carmen Patricia Ayerdis Espinozalos

Team Name: ATech-Mobile

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Nicaragua

Brief Summary: Point of sales systems are very expensive to acquire for new entrepreneurs or business owners. It can cost thousands of dollars and can be very difficult to use. Pozool is an app which provides small/medium size business a way to organize and control their sales.

Clara Ortega

Team Name: Guatemoms

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Guatemala

Brief Summary: Guatemoms is in application and web page where talented non-working moms can offer different services (like sewing, food preparation, crafts, professional advice, and tutoring among others).

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Dmitri Dawkins

Team Name: Poiesis

Category: Idea

Sector: ICT

Country: Jamaica

Brief Summary: Poiesis is a Technology Research & Development (R&D) firm practicing lean start up methodology to create solutions for companies and government entities. Poiesis is a Greek verb meaning 'to make', our aim is to create value for our customers by combining innovative methods with practical technology to overcome their internal limitations and inefficiencies.

Edwin Kestler

Team Name: Flatbox

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Guatemala

Brief Summary: Flatbox is a service that uses direct internet connected hardware and mobile web software to create a real time solution for measuring, monitoring and alert SMEs on their critical control points of production on any devices such as tablets, pcs, or even Smartphones.

Emilia Díaz

Team Name: Kaitek Labs

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Chile

Brief Summary: Kaitek Labs harnesses the computing power of bacteria, turning them into in vivo testing assays for virtually any target metabolite. Kaitek has developed three basic synthetic pathways that allow bacteria to identify, measure and ultimately translate the assessed information to the user.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Fatima Guadalupe Rocha Arguelles

Team Name: Energía, Suministros e Instalaciones, S. A. de C. V.

Category: Start Up

Sector: Energy

Country: Mexico

Brief Summary: To design and develop an intelligent textile thermal microfiber prototype that incorporates elements of solar thermal technology developed by the company, by inserting selective coatings by the method of electrochemical deposition on stainless steel microfibers integrated into clothing for increasing the temperature in climatic zones of low temperature.

Gerardo Jose

Team Name: Improved Water Pump

Category: Idea

Sector: Energy

Country: Honduras

Brief Summary: With the innovation / improvement and installation of hydraulic ram multipropulsor in different communities of Honduras we aim to develop a device that pumps water to a greater height without fuel or electricity but also acts as a source of electrical energy, and significantly reduce environmental pollution, with the ultimate goal to use more green energy accelerated pace and route with our country towards development

Jermaine Henry

Team Name: Agrocentral

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Jamaica

Brief Summary: AgroCentral is Jamaica's first digital agricultural clearing house utilizing Web to SMS/SMS to Web technology to connect small farmers and businesses.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

José Manuel Sánchez

Team Name: Poliglota

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Chile

Brief Summary: Poliglota connects people who want to practice and learn languages in an open and informal way. Poliglota is the first face to face social network of languages around the world.

Jossue Amador

Team Name: Holographic Medical Robot

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Chile

Brief Summary: H.M.R or Holographic Medical Robot will be a modern, versatile robotic interphase which can serve as a solution for the need of non-existent or scarce qualified medical professional personnel or even as a support for the actual personnel in the medical sector.

Juan Carlos Guaqueta

Team Name: AcuaCare

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Columbia

Brief Summary: AcuaCare, uses a technology called BIDA that allows biological treatment of wastewater using earthworms and microorganisms which transform the pollution in the water into organic fertilizer (humus) and allows the reuse of the treated water for irrigation.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Leonardo Nunes

Team Name: Novalact

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Chile

Brief Summary: Novalact is a Chilean start-up focused on the development of a probiotic capable of reducing and eliminating the symptoms of lactose intolerance, which currently affects hundreds of millions worldwide.

Pavel Santos

Team Name: STILMS

Category: Idea

Sector: ICT

Country: Dominican Republic

Brief Summary: STILMS combines the different fields of psychology, education, and technology in a single platform in order to provide an effective learning experience based on the results of each individual’s assessment.

Rene Castro

Team Name: Systems Out Of The Box

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: El Salvador

Brief Summary: Systems Out Of The Box is a mobile and web based platform which provides control of resources, productivity, and quality control to the agricultural industry in El Salvador.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Sheldon Duncombe

Team Name: INSUSUIT

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Jamaica

Brief Summary: Insusuit is a Type 1 Diabetes correction device which makes use of a glucose sensor that would be attached to the person and gives reading every 15 minutes via monitoring device.

Victor Manuel Higareda Alvear

Team Name: Insect-microbe team

Category: Idea

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Mexico

Brief Summary: The insect-microbe team intends to build an insect mass-rearing facility to produce animal feed for livestock, fishes, pigs and poultry. From the insects reared they intend to make flour the base of all products produced which according to the animal requirement will be enriched with specific nutrients.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Middle East & North Africa & Europe

Alexandr Iscenco

Team Name: MEGA Generation: The Game with Impact

Category: Idea

Sector: ICT

Country: Moldova

Brief Summary: MEGA (Moldovan Environmental Governance Academy) represents an off-line and on-line community for young people that creates positive social and environmental impact through efficient community learning, networking opportunities and involvement in various environmental initiatives in a fun way.

Bashkim Shalla

Team Name: TIS Holding LLC

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Albania

Brief Summary: The introduction of the Avalanche+ Rose to Albania to enhance the national floral industry.

Hessa Al Shehhi

Team Name: Sustainable Carpet

Category: Idea

Sector: Energy

Country: United Arab Emirates

Brief Summary: The intent of this idea is to control the potential risks of global warming of CO2 emissions by investigating the technical and economic feasibility of a new carpet system adapted for any new building. The idea is based on capturing existing energy by absorbing the heat generated or produced by people or equipment and the transfer of the heat to main chiller plant. This existing thermal energy can be storage and then transformed to electricity instead of burning fuel to produce heat for generating electricity.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Ilyasse Belkacem

Team Name: SmartAquaControl

Category: Idea

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Algeria

Brief Summary: Smart Aqua Control is an irrigation scheduling system controlled by a smartphone application, which provide the right amount of water needed to plants.

Islam Azeddine Mennouchi

Team Name: Dalil

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Algeria

Brief Summary: DALIL is to design and implement a software system for visually impaired individuals around the world to help recognize and locate objects.

Kamal Alhmoud

Team Name: Aster

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Jordan

Brief Summary: Aster provides the service of planting roof top buildings in residential and commercial buildings.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Khouloud Sederi

Team Name: Agrotex

Category: Idea

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Tunisia

Brief Summary: Agrotex is an application and online community which is tailor-made for farmers. It will help farmers to know everything about agriculture regarding economics, environment, community, market analysis , weather forecasting , and data to help farmers to know when to start land preparation, planting, weeding etc .

Maher Maymoun

Team Name: PiezoClean

Category: Idea

Sector: Energy

Country: Jordan

Brief Summary: The invented system will use “Transparent Piezoelectric film” to mitigate dust from accumulating on Photovoltaic panels by installing it on the surface. As a result, this will increase the total solar energy generation significantly.

Meriem Chehih

Team Name: E-Care

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Algeria

Brief Summary: E-Care is a healthcare platform that is designed to be used in coordination with local doctors. It responds to the needs of hypertensive people and their caregivers it allows users to track their blood pressure by taking measurements multiple times a day. E-Care makes hypertensive people lives easier and simpler by combining the elements of hypertension management into simple and intuitive multi-support solution.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Moath Alatefi

Team Name: Super Diesel

Category: Start Up

Sector: Energy

Country: Yemen

Brief Summary: Super Diesel transforms used cooking oil to replace diesel in engines.

Mohammed Jaber

Team Name: Mawdoo3.com

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Jordan

Brief Summary: Mawdoo3.com is a new Arabic articles platform that aims to enrich the internet with unique and high quality content. Its core advantage is a unique keywords analysis algorithm that allows the platform's team to analyse online arabic search queries, filter them and extract from them the top topics that attract the arabic audience.

Shahd AlShehail

Team Name: JUST

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Saudi Arabia

Brief Summary: JUST leverages technology to create transparency in fashion supply chains. As a B2B platform, we make it simple to adopt ethical supply chains by significantly reducing search and switch costs, removing the hassle of vetting suppliers, and adding value to the end-customer experience.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Waleed Jan

Team Name: Re Braille

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Saudi Arabia

Brief Summary: Re Braille is a text editing function for the blind, allowing the user to edit the text and correct any typing mistakes before the text is punched on paper, saving major redo efforts, time and wasted papers.

Wassim Zoghlami

Team Name: What'sIn

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Tunisia

Brief Summary: The What’sIn mobile application service enables consumers with allergies to instantly find relevant product information when scanning a Universal Product Code to avoid allergic reactions.

Yassine Zyad

Team Name: Sheaply

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Morocco

Brief Summary: Sheaply is a Platform (web and apps) that connects two kinds of people: people who need to ship something and people who travel. Travelers use Sheaply to post their travel and carry items for shippers who are looking for someone to do so. Travelers take advantage of their trips and make money; shippers find an easy, social and cheaper way to ship their items.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Zied Hosni

Team Name: HTML5 Ninja

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Tunisia

Brief Summary: HTML5-ninja.com is a marketplace for buying and selling HTML5 themes, scripts that joins sellers and potential buyers.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Adwoa Asiedua Boateng

Team Name: YINI

Category: Idea

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Ghana

Brief Summary: Yini (Yini means ‘One’ in a Ghanaian local language) is a mobile-based Patient Medical Records application that medical officers use in recording patient medical history.

Alieu Jallow

Team Name: CharSolutions

Category: Idea

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Gambia

Brief Summary: CharSolutions uses existing bio-wastes, biochar, the product of burning agricultural and animal waste to address agricultural success, environmental restoration, bio-waste management, alternative small-scale heat generation, and even water filtration.

Behaylu Abreha

Team Name: YB Plant Micropropagation Plc.

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Ethiopia

Brief Summary: The development of Hydroponic green feed in an Ethiopian context using cheap and locally available raw materials.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Blessing Mene

Team Name: UNFIRE

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Nigeria

Brief Summary: UNFIRE tackles the ‘feeds gap’ between the high cost of livestock feeds and low-income communities by producing novel, culturally-acceptable poultry/livestock feeds that is highly nutritional & low-cost (60% lesser cost). UNFIRE feeds is made using a proprietary process and is higher quality, very healthy and organic compared to conventional.

Charles Akhimien

Team Name: OMOMI

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Nigeria

Brief Summary: OMOMI is a mobile application that enables parents easily monitor their children's health at the touch of a button. The app has a vibrant Mothers Community (a social platform where mothers interact with one another as well as with doctors) which enables mothers to spot potential life-threatening health problems in their children even before they became apparent.

Chinedu Okoro

Team Name: Aqua Clean Energy

Category: Start Up

Sector: Energy

Country: Nigeria

Brief Summary: Aqua Clean Energy are aiming to manufacture and distribute solar panels throughout Africa in order to develop and introduce environmentally safe and cost effective alternative energy suitable to households and small and medium size enterprises in the African economy.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Chola Sapwe

Team Name: Self Reliable Generator

Category: Idea

Sector: Energy

Country: Zambia

Brief Summary: The invention of a generator to improve power supply, using the principle of the electromagnetic induction from the dynamo.

Cynthia Ndubuisi

Team Name: KPC - Kadosh Production Company

Category: Idea

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Nigeria

Brief Summary: This project is comprised of five innovations: A simple technology (a drying platform for the cassava peels to be used instead of burning the waste); A new product (clean dried cassava peels that can be sold as goat feed); An educational component (a diet prescribed to goat farmers, designed by animal scientists that utilizes cassava peels and maximizes the growth rate and health of the goats); Access to credit (facilitating micro-credit loans to build drying platforms), and a new market mechanism (linking cassava processors and goat keepers).

David Gluckman

Team Name: Khusela

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: South Africa

Brief Summary: Khusela has developed a low-cost fire detection device and early-warning integrated alert service leveraging off mobile network platforms. The device and service will be sold to slum-dwellers in high-density slums across the globe to mitigate the loss of life and property thus increasing human safety and security.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Edmund Ainebyona

Team Name: Cipher256

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Uganda

Brief Summary: Cipher256 Co. LTD is a technology start-up that focuses on delivering community-centric solutions. WinSenga eFHR, is a low-cost mobile-phone based ultrasound solution that will help midwives, especially in low-resource settings in the rural areas provide quality, accurate and standardized care to mothers and their unborn during antenatal care and labour.

Eric Wamakima

Team Name: Biobots

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: Kenya

Brief Summary: At BioBots, we envision a future where organ replacements are grown out of a recipient's own cells, eliminating the need for foreign organ donations. Through the production of low cost, high-resolution 3-D bioprinters, BioBots is turning this dream into a reality.

Geoffrey Salter

Team Name: IntraTorr

Category: Start Up

Sector: Healthcare

Country: South Africa

Brief Summary: Accurate blood pressure measurement has become indispensable to the practice of modern medicine in both the animal and human health sectors. IntraTorr is a patented portable intra-arterial blood pressure monitor which is low cost and has specific features which make it ideal for field use.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Igili Onyedikachukwu

Team Name: Waste to Point Recycling

Category: Idea

Sector: Energy

Country: Nigeria

Brief Summary: Waste to Point Recycling is the creation of a system that allows the public give their recyclable waste in a simple non-complex manner and in return earn rewards. The proposed system would evolve in 3 dimensions comprising of; a mobile application, a web application and an on-site registration for non tech-savvy people. It is a community that focuses on getting its members to contribute recyclables and in return earn rewards.

Lisa Katusiime

Team Name: AgroMarketDay

Category: Start Up

Sector: Agriculture

Country: Uganda

Brief Summary: AgroMarketDay is a mobile application which enables farmers to sell their agricultural produce and to get information about agricultural markets, market days, modern farming methods and tools in the different districts in Uganda.

Mawano Kambeu

Team Name: Bus Tickets Zambia

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Zambia

Brief Summary: Bus Tickets Zambia allows the general public to reserve, select their seats and pay for their bus travel via a number of methods: Online, Smart Phone, SMS, Public Computer Kiosks, Post Office, Supermarkets and other authorized third party locations.

2014 GIST TECH-I COMPETITION

The GIST Initiative is led by the U.S Department of State, and the Tech-I Competition is implemented by AAAS.

Mixon Faluweki

Team Name: Padoko Charger

Category: Start Up

Sector: Energy

Country: Malawi

Brief Summary: Padoko charger uses a bicycle dynamo to charge cellphones while the user is cycling between locations.

Muchu Kaingu

Team Name: m-Retailer

Category: Idea

Sector: ICT

Country: Zambia

Brief Summary: m-Retailer is a cloud-based mobile application that interfaces with Point of Sale and Stock Management Systems to give better business insights to the retailer.

Tashia Kalondo

Team Name: Digital Media Marketing Namibia

Category: Start Up

Sector: ICT

Country: Namibia

Brief Summary: Digital Media Marketing Namibia is a start-up with the aim to deliver complete social media marketing solutions to a wide range of clients in Namibia, designed to improve their electronic word of mouth. Digital Media Marketing Namibia will provide strategy, development, consulting and execution to bring all aspects of social media and traditional marketing efforts into alignment with unified goals and purpose.