Innovators programme
Local talent
solving
local challenges
Residents report real problems on Baladi Map. Students and professionals design the solutions, and the best are piloted with a municipality.
Sign up in a minuteWhat the winner gets
Prize of
USD 5,000
Expert
Mentorship
by business & technical coaches
A chance to launch
Your own company
Today's problems. Tomorrow's ideas.
Every photo here is a real report a resident sent to Baladi Map. Drag across it to see one idea of what that place could become. The real solution is the one you design.
The Tomorrow pictures are ideas drawn with AI to spark yours. They are not finished projects.
A covered community court with a mural
El Mina · Today: a dump under the overpass
A clean beach with a boardwalk and recycling bins
El Mina · Today: a littered beach
A recycling point with trees
Tripoli · Today: rubbish piled on the street
A repaired road with a bike lane
Beirut · Today: a pothole
An accessible sidewalk with a tree and a bench
Beirut · Today: a broken sidewalk
A solar street light
Beit Ech-Chaar · Today: tangled cables on a pole
- Real problems, with photos, locations and the people affected, from the public record.
- Solutions are piloted with a municipality. The best win prize money and meet mentors and investors.
- Open to students of any specialty and to professionals.
The challenges you'll work on
Not every problem makes a good project. Project 1062 opens the ones a small team can actually move in a single town:
- Solvable with technology or a new business model
- Affecting a large share of the people who live there
- Within what a municipality is allowed to do
- With results you can measure inside six months
- With a solution other towns can reuse
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