Entrepreneurship Programs & Competitions

We co-create local “Drones as a Service” entrepreneurship programs together with Flying Labs to grow local markets. We also organize global competitions to source for new ideas and solutions that can strengthen the ecosystem and contribute to the enabling environment. 

“Drones as a Service” Entrepreneurship Programs

We propose an entrepreneurship program in collaboration with the Flying Labs network that is targeted specifically towards engineers in Africa, Latin America, Asia and beyond who want to set up their own service company using drones or offering supporting services. Our program addresses SDGs #8 (Decent work and economic growth) and #9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure), focusing on growing local markets and creating high-value jobs locally.

Discover all the details of our program and how it is different from other entrepreneurship and start-up programs in the program brochure.

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This program has already been successfully implemented in Nepal, Tanzania, Panama and Senegal. Discover more on these past and current programs in the blog posts selection below.

Global Competitions

We organise global competitions that address challenges the Flying Labs face in their daily lives. As these challenges stretch over a wide range, so do the competitions we organise. To help find fitting and unusual solutions all the while building entrepreneurial skills.

Discover past competitions we have organised. Are you interested in co-organizing a competition with us? Contact us.

Unusual Solutions

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AI Challenges

Aerial imagery analysis represents a Big Data challenge. With a Network in 30+ countries collecting aerial images on a daily basis, WeRobotics launched a series of Open AI Challenges in partnership with Flying Labs and other strategic partners such as the World Bank. The goal of Open AI Challenges is to crowdsource the development of accurate feature detection algorithms to automatically identify key features of interest in aerial imagery specifically. These features of interest are identified by partners and are linked to long term economic and sustainable development goals. Team compete over a certain period of time to develop the best algorithm possible, the winning algorithms are then made publicly available. Open AI Challenges have been carried out in the South Pacific, East Africa and the Caribbean.

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