The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through its IDB Lab innovation laboratory, has launched an open innovation call to identify, pilot, and accelerate technological solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) that contribute, through the concept of algorithmic justice to reducing bias and discrimination on the basis of gender and gender. The purpose is to search for solutions that contribute to the incorporation of women into the economy and society, especially in groups in poverty or vulnerability.
Together with Climate Change, Gender Equality and Diversity are cross-pillars in the work of the IDB Lab, which is addressed through each of the priority vertical areas and through support for the consolidation of the region’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems.
The solutions proposed must:
- Promote gender equity through adequate data governance and mitigation of potential biases of the algorithms being used;
- Explore and leverage the potential of AI and automated learning to mitigate and/or address gender gaps, in the priority areas of the call;
- Promote social and economic inclusion of groups in poverty or vulnerability, with key indicators to measure outcomes, and
- Projecting a path of scalability or replicability, as well as financial sustainability.
Requirements
Areas:
- Health and Social welfare
- Education, Talent, and Employment
- Financial Inclusion
Other vertical areas of BID Lab: BID Lab’s vertical areas are: (i) agriculture and natural capital; (ii) essential infrastructure services; (iii) financial inclusion; (iv) education, talent, and employment; and (v) health. In addition, they are transversal axes: (i) climate change; and (ii) gender and diversity.
Eligibility
- Companies, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), startups/enterprises, social impact organizations, civil society organizations (NGOs, foundations), and universities that develop and implement AI-based market solutions and automated learning. These solutions should contribute to economic growth, social welfare, improvement in health social services, and education, and contribute to reducing inequality in the region.
- Category A-Geographical Scope: 26 IDB borrowing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. If your organization is legally registered in one of these 26 countries where the project will be implemented, you can apply to the Convocation. If your organization is legally registered in one of the 48 member countries of the IDB, which is not one of the 26 target countries where the project will be implemented, it can be applied jointly with a registered organization located in one of the 26 target countries where the project will be implemented.
- Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.
- Category B-Geographical Scope Organizations are legally constituted in one of the 22 non-IDB borrowing countries that have implemented AI solutions that are aligned with the objectives of this Call but have no presence or alliances in one of the 26 IDB borrowing countries.
- Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Republic of Korea, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, United States, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Benefits
- Category A-Possible IDB Lab Financing: IDB Lab Financing (under the terms and conditions set out in section 06 of the call guidelines), and participation in special events and activities organized by IDB Lab and the regional networks of the IDB Group.
- Category B-Honorific Mention: Honorific Mention and participation in special events and activities organized by IDB Lab and the regional networks of the IDB Group
Application process
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| Theme | : Innovation |
| Applicant Country | : WorldWide |
| For more information | : BID |
