Remove transparency section from screening-schema.json

Propagate the changes from DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard#17
And migrate any existing content from primero and opencrvs files from termsOfServiceURL to privacySecurityDescription

Bounty: validate Digital Public Good submissions

Validate Digital Public Good submissions

Prize Bounty

A special blockchain-based badge, the first ever issued by the Digital Public Goods Alliance! 🙌

Challenge Description

Calling all contributors: The Digital Public Goods Alliance is now crowdsourcing reviews of digital public goods! We’re asking you to participate by reviewing open source projects against the Digital Public Goods Standard with the ultimate goal of determining if a project qualifies as a Digital Public Good.

Why participate?

Open source represents an unprecedented opportunity to fundamentally alter power balances in international development. But, we can’t harness that power without the cooperation of many - reviewers, maintainers, creators, policy makers, and so many others (that means you! 👊).

This community sourcing exercise will give you the opportunity to delve into some of the largest up and coming open source projects. You’ll get a chance to understand their licenses and documentation, and how they’re designing for best practices, standards, privacy and more.

By participating, you’ll get a better understanding of open projects that are making a difference in the world, particularly those that are advancing practical solutions to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You’ll also join a growing number of innovators working on technology for development (T4D).

There’s more! We want to show our appreciation for your reviews! We’re working with the UNICEF Office of Innovation’s Blockchain Team to recognize those who contribute with a blockchain-based badge, known as Kudos. This unique badge will be displayed on your Gitcoin profile.

Submission Requirements

Here’s how you can participate:

Go to https://validate.digitalpublicgoods.net
Login with your GitHub credentials (or create a profile, if you don't have one already).
Select an open source project that has been nominated as a Digital Public Good.
Follow the step-by-step instructions to review the project and decide whether or not you believe it meets the criteria to become a is a DPG.
The validate webapp will open a Pull Request on your behalf
To receive your blockchain-badge, submit your Pull Request (PR) to the Gitcoin Bounty (login with your GitHub credentials)
Badges will be allocated on a rolling basis - check back on your Gitcoin profile for your badge!

Judging Criteria

This is a collaborative bounty, where we will accept all valid submissions. Any submission needs to be complete in order to be considered as valid. Submissions will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis.

What We Learn When You Participate

The Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) strives to embody the principles of openness and transparency in how we operate. We want to engage people who share in our mission of promoting digital public goods for a more equitable world.

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation states, “Currently, access to digital solutions is often limited through copyright regimes and proprietary systems. Most existing digital public goods are not easily accessible because they are often unevenly distributed in terms of the language, content and infrastructure required to access them.”

To address these issues, we plan to screen and assess digital public goods that have been nominated to our registry, but are not yet screened against the DPG Standard. We are looking for engagement in this screening process.

Our aim is to build a process that is reliable, scalable, transparent and open. Ultimately, we want our vetting process to fit with our open values and to leverage the expertise of not only our staff, but also the community to help assess these projects.

Desired Outcomes

Our hypothesis is that, by crowdsourcing this screening process, we will arrive at some degree of consensus and therefore be able to move a significant number of projects from “nominated” to “Digital Public Good”. We will be testing this by using confidence ratings in our questions and looking at the overall agreement among reviewers.

We also want to hear from you - is there interest in participating in an activity like this in the future? Are there better ways to engage you to support an effort like this? We encourage you to leave feedback in the comment boxes throughout the process to help us learn and grow.

List of Venture Fund Investees From UNICEF Innovation Fund

The UNICEF Innovation Fund has agreed with the DPGA team to revise a number of handpicked projects from the Innovation Fund as priority. Here is the list of selected potential DPGs:

Collate list of Blocked Nominees & DPGs

25 Blocked nominees - Projects that have not fulfilled the baseline criteria i.e. SDG, open source etc.
26 Blocked DPGs - Projects that are not passing any of the 9 indicators

Blocked DPGs:

Blocked Nominees:

CI: open_pr fails when a nominee file has been deleted

For an instance of this, see this build

The expected behavior is that the CI should account for the deleted file, and push it to delete it in the other repo as well; and handle the addition of files as before by creating new files.

Unresolved fonts in static site

2021 Drone Toolkit Nominations

The Drone DPG Toolkit will host various content and software DPGs related to drones. There is a priority list of 8 submissions that we want to have as DPG nominees before our launch date (aiming for October 18th, 2021); they are the following;

UNICEF Standard Operating Procedure for drone corridors
AI/ML Algorithm library for image classification
How-to Guide: Setup of Drones for Good corridor
Decision-making Guide: Drones vs motorbikes and other vectors for supply chain
Decision-making Guide: Drones vs Satellites for imagery
Dronfies UTM software
Africa Drone and Data Academy Courses
ICAO Model UAS regulations Part 101 and 102

Cc: @enonied4g

Add nominees from Africa COVID-19 Response Toolkit

See blog: https://medium.com/africa-covid-19-response-toolkit/introducing-the-open-source-africa-covid-19-response-toolkit-6d4a571027a8

Add a new nominee for each of the projects listed therein. See our contributing guidelines for directions on how to nominate them.

Automatic submission form opening a new PR fails if project exists already

The current submission Google Form creates a new PR upon submission, but it fails if the project already exists. The script as documented here needs to check if the file exists first.

DPGs From UNICEF Ghana StartUp Lab

Summary

Tracker issue to follow DPG nomination process for interested companies that are part of UNICEF Ghana StartUp Lab.

Background

UNICEF in Ghana runs a business accelerator program (StartUp Lab) for socially-minded companies. The 2021 cohort is comprised of 22 companies. Some of these companies are considering submitting their solution to become a DPG. On September 18th, DPGA will support UNICEF Ghana in organizing local Software Freedom Day event. We are encouraging companies interested in DPG submission to push their effort in the weeks prior to the event, so that we can announce them as DPGs during the event, should their submission effort be successful.

Details

2021 Bridge Funding cohort from UNICEF Innovation Fund

Summary

Tracker issue to follow DPG nomination process for five (5) incoming teams to UNICEF Innovation Fund

Background

In July/August 2021, the UNICEF Innovation Fund is on-boarding five new companies as part of incoming Bridge Funding cohort. These teams have workplans with the Fund for the next 12 months. The teams are receiving follow-on funding from UNICEF to further scale products created by teams in previous seed rounds with the Fund. The intent is for them to become Digital Public Good nominees as soon as possible.

Details

Atix Labs (Argentina): A global social platform that connects SMEs with funders in different locations facilitating the investment process, and giving more visibility to use of funds by SMEs and its impact on-ground.
Pixframe (Mexico): A game-based-learning platform to assess and develop children's cognitive skills, such as attention, memory, planning and organization skills, audiovisual perception, inhibition and flexibility.
Somleng (Cambodia): A low cost Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and SMS platform, integrated into the RapidPro platform to extend its reach to communities with low literacy levels.
Dymaxion Labs (Argentina): A platform, which surveys large areas using AI-powered geospatial analytics.
Ilhasoft(Weni) (Brazil): Open platform for training and sharing Natural Language Processing datasets in multiple languages.

Outcome

Five teams on track to becoming DPG nominees within first two months of re-engaging with the Innovation Fund

CI Build failing: Investigate order of fields in JSON

The automated CI failed upon submission for Kindly

Look into the positions of the JSON keys
"implementBestPractices": "Yes",
"griefAbuseHarassmentProtection": "Yes",

https://github.com/unicef/publicgoods-candidates/runs/4385086080?check_suite_focus=true

Remove 9a section from the screening-schema and screening files

Propogate the change introduced in v1.1.0 of the DPG-Standard as implemented in DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard#1.

This requires:

Update screening-schema.json accordingly
Remove that section from all files present in the screening folder

Outreachy 2021

Dear Outreachy Participants,
(@318anushka, @agusfaifer, @DivyanshiSingh, @ijeomaemeruwa, @Hasherz96, @llbrito, @merc2000, @Msgl, @mxggie-wxng, @rachita19082, @Rolikasi, @SondosAhmed, @vaishnavi-ch, @tawandamoyo, @zubedauk)

First and foremost, thank you for you interest in contributing to the work of UNICEF, and the outpour of enthusiasm and contributions to this project. We are humbled, and a bit overwhelmed 🙃 by the number, the breadth and depth of the pull requests that you have opened on this repository; for which we are most grateful.

As the month of April comes to an end, we will be in the difficult position to select one candidate that will receive an internship from Outreachy to contribute to UNICEF and the work around Digital Public Goods. To be considered for this position, be sure to check the following items:

Familiarize yourself with our main repo, and the registry on our website.
Tackle this good first issue: Nominate 5 new Digital Public Goods.
Participate in our crowdsourcing pilot, by reviewing 3 projects.
Optionally, tackle this other good first issue (already closed) or this other one (also already almost closed)

We recognize the highly competitive nature of this process, where unfortunately we will only be able to award one internship. We want to provide some insight into how that decision will be made, that is we will prioritize the individual who has added the most value to this project, which is not necessarily measured in the number of pull requests open, but the value added through those pull requests.

Please note that we are not accepting contributions to the actual project of Creating map visualizations of digital public good development and implementation until we make the selection of the applicant that will receive the internship.

Beyond the initial tasks outlined above, refer to the additional lists of issues across other repositories that are connected to our work around digital public goods.

As a courtesy to other participants:

"claim" an issue from the above list by commenting on that issue when you start working on it
don't claim an issue unless you are actively working on it; and don't claim more than one issue at a time.
don't keep an issue claimed stale. If you decide that you don't want to work on it anymore, post a second comment saying so, so that others can take it on
you can collaboratively work on any of the issues above with other participants interested in the same issue. We welcome collaborative participants
ask issue-specific questions on each separate issue. Only comment on this issue on generic questions or use our public chat

We may update this issue with additional issues in the coming days, so we encourage you to keep an eye on it.

Good luck, and thanks again for your amazing contributions 🙏

@nathanbaleeta & @lacabra

Deployment of [email protected]

Learn how to use the [email protected]

How [email protected] works?

[email protected] is an email forward to [email protected], much like [email protected] is an email forward to [email protected].
The google groups are simply mailing (distribution) lists, so that we can add multiple recipients to one single address; meaning any email that get sent to [email protected] gets a copy forwarded to all the members of the [email protected] list.

PS: it is not a “proper” email account, it is just a forward. In order to be able to do send emails out, DPGA should get a proper mailing service (for example this).

DOC: Update git links in CONTRIBUTING.md

This issue can confuse contributors. Let me fix it )
Current:
In 2a. section

Using HTTPS: git clone https://github.com/enigmampc/covid-self-reporting.git

Using SSH: git clone [email protected]:enigmampc/covid-self-reporting.git

Expected

Using HTTPS: git clone https://github.com/unicef/publicgoods-candidates.git

Using SSH: git clone [email protected]:unicef/publicgoods-candidates.git

Remove response time question, embed it into another

Propagate the changes introduced in DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard#21 into the screening-schema.json and make the corresponding changes in screening/primero.json and screeening/opencrvs.json accordingly.

Nominate 3 new Digital Public Goods

Nominate 3 new projects as Digital Public Goods defined as open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm, and help attain the SDGs.

Instructions

You can accomplish the same goal through the two different options below:

Create a pull request for the project you are nominating (refer to our contributing guidelines). This may be the preferred way for developers who are more accustomed to coding and managing repo files directly.
Provide additional information about the project (this is where you’re research skills come into play!) by completing this form here. This is meant for the general public, where one does not need to interact with this repo at all.

⚠️ NOTE: This issue is meant to be generic and is meant to accept a variety of Pull Requests from different contributors. Thus, avoid the following keywords: close, closes, closed, fix, fixes, fixed, resolve, resolves, resolved in your PR or commit message that would close it automatically. Kindly leave it open so that it remains visible for others to contribute. Thank you! 🙏

DOC: Update Template section in CONTRIBUTING.md

The Template section in CONTRIBUTING.md is out of sync with the latest version of the schema around the SDGs field (which is a different array of object, more similar to the proceeding license field). Refer to the schema and update accordingly.

Docs: Identify more ways to contribute

Summary

Expand the contributing guidelines with different options for contributing, beyond only nominating DPGs

Background

The current contributing guidelines do an excellent job of explaining how to nominate a new Digital Public Good.

However, there are many things people could help with beyond nominating DPGs. There are website improvements and bug fixes, opportunities to do design-oriented heuristic activities with the Open Source community, and crowd-sourcing outreach and promotion material.

Identifying what those contribution pathways are and documenting them in the CONTRIBUTING.md file is a good way to be more inclusive for a diverse range of contribution types to an Open Source project.

Details

Tackling this requires some brainstorming and planning on scope. These are questions I would ask while scoping this issue:

What are the ways people could contribute to the DPG work on GitHub today? Be exhaustive and creative. List out all the things you can think of and what people could do. You'll narrow down the list later.
From this list, which contributions take little to no time to review, and which contributions take greater time to review and consider? Contributions that require less review time have less risk of wasting a contributor's time if the change is not merged. Low-bandwidth contributions are helpful places to start from for diversifying contribution types.
Which one of these new contribution types would be good to trial or test out first? There might be one or two on this list that there is added capacity across the team to review, based on current focuses and demands.
What demand do we anticipate, and what bandwidth/capacity are we able to commit to meeting that demand? This is critical to establish project boundaries for individual capacity. This also helps, but does not wholly prevent, maintainer burnout by being explicit about capacity to engage in accepting new kinds of contributions into the product development lifecycle.

The outcome of this discussion should result in one to two clear contribution pathways. The CONTRIBUTING.md file should be updated accordingly.

Outcome

Improve diversity of contribution types to the DPG website and related works
Enhance inclusivity of different skill types in the Open Source development cycle

Propagate the changes from DPG-Standard#20

Adjust screening-schema.json to reflect the changes introduced in DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard#20

Documentation to resolve 9a and 7 conflict

Digital Public Goods must be designed and developed to comply with privacy and other applicable laws according to indicator #7 in the DPG standard. A few digital solutions claim exception to this indicator, however a further discussion/ assessment at the DPG standards council will be necessary to resolve which digital solutions can be exempted. Below are corresponding responses provided by individual projects:

farmOS - farmOS follows true data sovereignty. Data sovereignty is the idea that data is subject to the laws and governance structures within the nation it is collected. The concept of data sovereignty is closely linked with data security, cloud computing and technological sovereignty.
Open Referral - Open Referall doesn't traffic any personal information to which laws might apply. We produce non-proprietary specifications for exchanging public information.
Somleng. To the best of our knowledge, Somleng does not store any PII for the beneficiaries. The only potential PII that we collect and store is the beneficiary phone number. As such, as an open source project, we do not think GDPR applies to Somleng.

Health DPGs for Immunization Delivery Management

The Community of Practice for Health convened by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) and co-chaired by UNICEF Health includes experts from Digital Square, WHO, USAID and others has developed a combined assessment criteria for digital public goods and global goods that we are using to identify, assess and promote highly relevant health solutions for immunization delivery management.

The list of potential digital public goods/ global goods shortlisted include:

Ignore - Retrieve finalized copy from comms

Add nominees from http://impacttrackertech.kopernik.info/

Add a new nominee for each of the projects listed on Kopernik's Impact Tracker that has not been nominated yet. See our contributing guidelines for directions on how to nominate them.

Mobile Data Tools (PR #404)
GIS Tools (PR #382)
Remote Sensors (PR #409)
Data Analysis & Visualization Tools (PR #385)

Backlog of Outstanding Nominees To Invite To Become DPGs

Below is a list of nominees (contact information available) that we have to reach out to make full submissions:

Propagate changes from DPG-Standard#25

Adjust screening-schema.json to reflect the changes introduced in DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard#25

Meta: Change default git branch from master to main

Summary

Change this repository's default git branch from master to main to improve inclusivity

Background

On 23 June 2020, the Software Freedom Conservancy published an announcement from its member project, the Git project. The Git project committed to changing the default branch name for new repositories from master to main in the upstream git software.

The context behind this change is the connection of the word "master" to the legacy of the American slavery system. More context is available in this CNN article, Everyday words and phrases that have racist connotations (7 Jul 2020).

Other Open Source hosting platforms and projects have taken similar measures. GitHub switched new repositories to use main as the default branch since October 2020. The Fedora Project began a process to update the default branch for tens of thousands of git repository branches starting in February 2021.

So, why not us too? 😄

Details

GitHub actually makes this easy, but it does come with a slight risk. Using GitHub's branch changer tool normally updates all pending Pull Requests to point to the new default branch. But if a particular Pull Request is out-of-date, it may create new merge conflicts that are forced after changing the default branch. It is a good idea to merge any large or significant changes in pending reviews before changing branches.

Here is how to do it:

Go to repository settings, choose Branches from the sidebar.
Click the pencil button to edit the branch name
Rename it to main, click Rename branch
Done!

Double-check pending Pull Requests to see that they point to the new default branch.

Outcome

DPG development community aspires to a vision for free and open source software built by inclusive, welcoming, and open-minded communities.

Investigate Breaking builds upon PR

There seems to be a root issue that causes DPG Pull Requests to fail
Check out #700 and #703
They broke but then were fixed manually by @nathanbaleeta
The goal is to find the root issue and see how the manual fixes by Nathan can be integrated

Evidence for SDG relevance should be specific to each SDG entered

Currently, the nominee-schema.json states that SDGevidence is a common field, regardless of the number of SDG entered earlier. It will make it easier for validation that evidence is provided specific to each SDG the project claims relevance to.

Proposal: allow for multiple repositoryURLs per project

The repositoryURL field is currently a string that captures the primary repository for any given project. In some cases, a project will have multiple repositories, and there is currently no mechanism to capture that. Hence the proposal is to change the repositoryURL from a string to an array of strings to hold multiple entries. We should use the convention that the first entry in the array would be the main repository when there is that clear distinction.

Acceptance of this proposal would entail:

updating the nominee-schema.json
edit all files inside nominees/ folder, by way of a script, that converts the current string into an array of one element with that one entry
update those DPGs in the digitalpublicgoods/ folder that hold multiple files for the same DPG: commcare and mifos
modify the submission form to change the corresponding interface to allow for inputting multiple repositoryURL

Cc: @conradsp, @nathanbaleeta

EU fund to bug bounty programs applications to be DPGs

Mastodon - meets at least one SDG and have an open licence
Odoo - has the open licence but doesn't necessarily fulfil SDG requirements
Cryptpad - has the open licence but SDG fitment is vague
LEOS - this can definitely relate to SDGs and has the licence. this is legal tech so helps us in that area - it can even be an open data DPG theoretically
Libre office - we will follow up with them and make sure stay proactive

@nathanbaleeta please confirm some of the details mentioned here. And we can add this to our pipeline for active outreach. Not urgent. But creating an issue so we don't lose it.

2021 Acceleration Funding cohort from UNICEF Innovation Fund

Summary

Tracker issue to follow DPG nomination process for one incoming team to UNICEF Innovation Fund

Background

In July/August 2021, the UNICEF Innovation Fund is on-boarding a company as part of incoming Acceleration Funding cohort. They have a workplan with the Fund for the next 12 months. The team is receiving follow-on funding from UNICEF to further scale products created in previous seed rounds with the Fund. The intent is to become Digital Public Good nominees as soon as possible.

Details

Thinking Machines (Philippines): AI to mine alternative digital data sources – such as satellite imagery, social media, e-commerce data, and crowdsourced maps – for valuable and actionable data on socioeconomic conditions, infrastructure reach and quality, and environmental conditions that help any organization make better decisions.

Outcome

One team on track to becoming DPG nominees within first two months of re-engaging with the Innovation Fund

Error naming feature branches in automatic pull requests

The CI errors out because the project name is missing in the first half of the feature branch name, and complains that a feature branch cannot start with a dash. See the error here. I would guess that the error may originate here and may relate to the fact that the project name already has a dash?

DPG owner contact information sheet

Adding column to signify the status of each entry in the DPG contact information sheet:

DPG
Nominee

This is kind of urgent and something we need to take up ASAP. This is the only database available for outreach and as our community activities take form, it's going to be very important to have this.

cc @nathanbaleeta @nathanfletcher

Exclude nominees primarily used to support developers

Considering we are no longer accepting open source tools that are primarily used to support developers and that focus has shifted to tools that are specifically oriented around supporting SDGs; I propose to exclude the following nominees based on the above criteria:

DPG API not showing complete data due to nominee JSON directory changes

The current API works with the philosophy that all submissions live in the nominees folder.
The API script will then make copies of each submission in and apportion them in their respective status folders in the DPG API repo.

However recently, similar folders have been created in this very repository and files have been moved around.
This is probably due to workflow changes by @nathanbaleeta

As such, the script that builds the API would not be able to keep track of those files and accurately present them in the API. The API will also need to be extended to include the excluded and archived statuses.

Propagate the changes from DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard: #37 + #41

See:

Backlog of Outstanding DPG Full Submissions:

The following nominated projects made full submissions but have not yet been reviewed:

DPGs location data is not standardized

Location data in digitalpublicgoods folder is not standardized. So it's harder to analyze and visualize data because we need to clean it up every time we load data.
For example, in the DPG map visualization we need to edit a loader script every time there is a new DPG.
I found that in a submission form there is a country list which solve the problem with new submissions.

Work to do:

Clean up all existing data in digitalpublicgoods folder
Sync country names in DPG map visualization with country names in the submission form

You can find an object with current implementation of data cleaning in loader script in DPG map project.

Refresher Review of DPGs

We need to pick up the process for reviewing of the following DPGs that may be "lapsed" from the first round

H5P
Storyweaver #1074
African Storybook
The Global Digital Library
Book Dash - #862
Feed the Monster #1026 #1025 #1047
Antura and the Letters
Collection of Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) and Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI) resources

Am I missing any DPGs?

The approach that we had thought was to:

Go through the project's documentation and determine which ones will fit the new evolved standards which ones won't
What's the additional documentation we need for those that may still be designated DPGs
Outreach with them to submit additional documentation

https://digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/announcing-the-first-vetted-digital-public-goods-for-foundational-literacy-and-early-grade-reading/

cc @lacabra @nathanbaleeta let's figure how to get this done.

Hints for DPG Submission Form

An exercise to connect the submissions form to the resources on GitHub that rest in Help Centre on Public Goods repo
After running this process several times for several candidates. The most common clarifications seeked have been compiled. Think of these as the most Frequently Asked Questions about the form. We need to give form filling hints (ideally on mouse hover or extra click) during the form filling. The appearing on hover or click will prevent the main form from looking too cluttered.

One proposal is to render the corresponding individual pages in the right pane of the submission form when a given form entry is selected.

Backlog of Outstanding Nominees Without Contact Information

Below is a list of projects that were nominated but we have no contact information:

Ignore - Updating form styling

Update font
Update alignment
Update colors

String in commit message prevents automatic opening of a PR

There are some instances in which an automatic opening of a PR is not the desired outcome, and could be manually overriden by a certain keyword in the message of the commit such as NOPR

Feature: Add search filter for DPGs and candidates with connections to UNICEF Innovation Fund

Summary

Filter DPG nominees and candidates in the registry who successfully graduated from the UNICEF Innovation Fund

Background

This meets two needs:

Provides most up-to-date data for UNICEF Innovation Fund team
Adds another label of confidence for DPG nominees and candidates through the five-year history of the Innovation Fund's equity-free investments into Open Source software, hardware, data, and content.

Why are there these needs?

Members of the UNICEF Fund team frequently need to refer to latest data about how many Innovation Fund teams have engaged with the DPG application process to-date and which teams have become certified Digital Public Goods. This is an important success metric for our teams as we actively guide them to meet the DPG Standard during a 12-month interactive mentorship programme.

Additionally, the UNICEF Innovation Fund has invested equity-free funding to several promising Open Source products registered under businesses from UNICEF programme countries. Since its start in 2016, the Innovation Fund exclusively invests in Open Source solutions as part of our commitment to the Principles of Digital Innovation.

Details

Update nomination template to add specifier for participation as a UNICEF Innovation Fund project
Add a toggle search filter to show nominees and candidates who are connected to the Innovation Fund

Outcome

Helps me and the Innovation Fund team be better advocates for the Open Source accomplishments of our investments
Helps others by distinguishing emerging solutions that UNICEF Office of Innovation has invested in as promising bets on the future of Open Source innovation to meet the SDGs

2021 Blockchain cohort from UNICEF Venture Fund

Summary

Tracker issue to follow DPG nomination process for five (5) incoming teams to UNICEF Innovation Fund

Background

In July/August 2021, the UNICEF Innovation Fund is on-boarding five new companies as part of incoming Blockchain cohort. These teams have workplans with the Fund for the next 12 months. The teams are receiving early-stage seed funding for solutions and products in early development. The intent is for them to become Digital Public Good nominees by the end of the investment period in 2022.

Details

BX Smart Labs (Mexico): Decentralised application for saving circles. The payments will be done on the blockchain allowing the saving circles to be built regardless of the location of the users. The smart contract will automatize the payments and withdrawals on each period ensuring the users receive their funds. #1246 #1245
Kotani Pay (Kenya): A platform for transfers/remittance, savings, withdrawals, loans, and payments. #1034 #1033
Rumsan (Nepal): Digital Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) management system. It uses mobile-based blockchain tokens for emergency response and recovery programs for humanitarian agencies. #1140 #1141
Treejer (Iran): Treejer is an open-source and forest-based climate action protocol to track trees and growth, a financing tool to facilitate micro-loans and payments to rural tree planters. #1235 #1234
Xcapit (Argentina): A platform using blockchain for planning, gamified savings, and wealth management including access to financial services such as interest-bearing accounts, loans, etc. #1174 #1173

Outcome

Five teams on track to becoming DPG nominees within first six months of UNICEF investment

Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) DPGs For Weather & Climate Information Services

The Community of Practice for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) convened by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) has selected potential digital public goods that are leveraging weather and climate information services for CCA.

The list of potential digital public goods shortlisted include:

Fintech For Impact DPGs From Philippines

Globally, about 1.7 billion people remain financially excluded. In the Philippines more than 52 million adults or 77.4 percent of the total adult population remain unbanked.

Without services like savings and insurance, families are vulnerable to economic insecurity - which limits their ability to plan, adapt to unexpected events, and provide the best nutrition, health, and education for their children.

In the Philippines, over 9 million children live below the poverty line. As a result, they have an increased chance of poor health and malnutrition, and - without the ability to afford and access education, training, work, and entrepreneurial opportunities - reduced opportunities in the long term.

To investigate potential solutions that can benefit the most financially excluded, ING and UNICEF have selected 5 startups developing digital solutions that aim to solve financial and banking challenges to receive equity-free investment and to engage in a 12-month support period.

Here are the Fintech For Impact startups:

Automatic PR creation from form submission fails if nominee file exists already

The current submission Google Form creates a new PR upon submission, but it fails if the project already exists. The script as documented here needs to check if the file exists first.

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