Project Highlights Round 1 (2017-2018) Nineteen projects were selected and announced as the inaugural DIF winners in 2017 (a total amount of USD 2.7 million). These projects varied in geographic focus, types of innovation, sectors, kinds of outputs, target beneficiaries, and partnership models. Project highlights included digital health programs in India and South Africa that helped predict and identify patients who were likely to fail to return for treatment by using machine learning technology and a digitizing data collection project at the point of sale in Kenya that addressed data gaps in the fertilizer market. One of the Round 1 projects, 'Building a Data Collaborative to Support SDGs on Health and WASH' in Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, helped create a data collaborative that produced data from multiple actors thereby reducing data collection in a fragmented data landscape. The project also provided local communities with training in Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), which helped them move from reliance on inaccurate handwritten maps to utilizing the open source mapping tools.