Vodafone Americas Foundation Reveals Winners of 10th Annual Wireless Innovation Project

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$600,000 in total prizes awarded to SMART, cerVIA and ENVIsion Mobile for their promising mobile innovations designed to impact the global community in the fight against disease and financial illiteracy.

At the Social Innovation Summit 2018 in San Francisco, the winners of our 10th annual Wireless Innovation Project (WIP), a competition awarding grants to the latest connected innovations designed to address critical issues facing the global community, were announced. Point-of-care platform SMART will receive the $300,000 first place prize for its remote diagnostic testing targeting sickle cell disease and malaria. cerVIA, a cervical cancer screening tool, will claim the $200,000 second place prize. ENVision Mobile, a business management application that helps financially illiterate micro-entrepreneurs, will receive the $100,000 third-place prize.

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