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$500,000 Grants for Agricultural Data Analysis

Lacuna Fund provides data scientists with the resources they need to produce new labeled datasets to address underserved populations. All datasets produced will be locally owned and openly accessible to the international community.

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The Labeled Datasets for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa request for proposals seeks data scientists who can label agricultural datasets referenced to earth observation (EO) data or related to other aspects of the crop and animal agricultural system for machine learning in sub-Saharan Africa.

Lacuna has grant funding up to $500,000 for datasets to address unique challenges in
mapping African smallholder farms with open source, quality data that can be used to build real-world applications.

Apply Now! Deadline: September 3, 2020

$225,000 Grants for Contraception Predictions

USAID works with local health care partners to support voluntary family planning and reproductive health programs in nearly 40 countries across the globe, ensuring that contraceptives are available and accessible to people who need them.

The Intelligent Forecasting Competition to Model Future Contraceptive Use seeks to identify and test more accurate methods of predicting future contraceptive use at health service delivery sites.

USAID will award 25,000 USD in prizes to innovators who can use USAID data and artificial intelligence to develop a forecasting model to predict the consumption of contraceptives over three months. USAID will also award a Field Implementation Grant of up to 200,000 USD to customize and test a high-performing intelligent forecasting model in Côte d’Ivoire.

Apply Now! Deadline: September 8, 2020

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