GenAI for Good Challenge 2025 (up to $25,000) – YOA

Deadline: December 1, 2025

Applications are open for the GenAI for Good Challenge 2025. Powered by IEEE’s and ITU’s international attain, the GenAI for Good Challenge helps technologists and innovators crew up with worldwide companions, safe funding, join with international networks, and construct AI options with measurable affect on urgent international challenges.​

Innovators are invited to:

• Tackle pressing international challenges in well being, agriculture, and local weather with AI that improves lives. Work on challenges that instantly affect communities, creating alternatives for significant, human-centered outcomes.
• Build alongside IEEE HT, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and international companions to develop accountable AI options with international affect. Collaborate with internationally trusted establishments main the best way in inclusive and globally impactful AI growth.
• Advance your innovation via a structured course of constructed for deployment and affect. Deploy your answer in partnership with organizations providing native and thematic experience to assist actual-world implementation.

Focus Areas

• Lesotho – Agriculture Extension Chatbot: A cell-pleasant AI chatbot providing farmers and extension employees in Lesotho actual-time agriculture recommendation, crop alerts, and market steering—by way of voice, textual content, and fundamental telephones.
• The Gambia – Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Prevention Chatbot: A multilingual AI chatbot delivering proof-based mostly, personalization steering to assist Gambians forestall and handle persistent well being dangers like hypertension and tobacco use.
• Bangladesh – Extreme Weather Advisor: An AI-powered assistant that helps Bangladeshi farmers put together for droughts with localized climate alerts, water-saving suggestions, and crop-particular threat steering.

Prizes

• Up to $25,000 funding for successful groups.

Eligibility

• Open to innovators and changemakers 
• They are wanting for groups prepared to put their AI experience to work—the place it’s wanted most. The problem facilities on three actual-world use instances, every tied to a UN Sustainable Development Goal and formed by the wants of native priorities.

Application

The problem will run in two phases. Phase One invites candidates to submit narrative proposals outlining their answer design, implementation method, anticipated affect, and the improvements they create to the baseline framework. Phase Two requires finalists to construct purposeful prototypes in devoted cloud environments supplied by the organizers. All submissions and ensuing options should be open-sourced, selling transparency and collaborative innovation.

For extra data, go to GenAI for Good Challenge.