Awardees
Overview
The awardees of the Activate AI Challenge are unlocking economic opportunity and building resilience through AI-driven solutions across six countries. Selected from a pool of 500 applications across 76 countries, these six organizations demonstrate how AI can drive inclusive economic growth—from supporting migrant workers and refugee communities to empowering women entrepreneurs, smallholder farmers, and journalists. Each solution addresses systemic barriers to economic participation while prioritizing local context, addressing low-resource languages, empowering community leadership, and driving sustainable impact beyond the grant period.
Hong Kong
Migrasia
Migrasia’s AI-powered worker protection and guidance system, PoBot, supports migrant workers across more than 50 jurisdictions in Asia and the Middle East.
Mongolia
Nest Center for Journalism Innovation and Development
The Nest Center is strengthening Mongolia’s AI economy by digitizing 30 years of Mongolian newspaper archives to build high-quality datasets for local language AI models while training journalists and students to lead their AI future.
Peru
IDENTI
IDENTI’s voice-first AI is bringing rural and smallholder farmers into the formal financial system through low-friction identity verification, alternative credit scoring models, and financial products.
The Philippines
Connected Women
Connected Women is strengthening women-led sari-sari stores across the Philippines by integrating human-centered digital training with AI-powered store insights.
Togo
Umbaji
Umbaji’s voice-enabled AI agent, Yodi, is advancing financial and climate resilience by delivering real-time financial advisory, commodity market prices, and climate alerts in over 12 West African native languages.
United Kingdom
CodeYouFuture
CodeYourFuture is deploying three new AI tools to scale training and create more time for volunteer mentoring to meet their mission of guiding refugees, asylum seekers, and low-income individuals into tech careers.