USAID Development 2.0 Challenge
07:19, 1 November 2008
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USAID has launched the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge.
"Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. USAID challenges you to explore its potential through an innovation for maximum development impact in areas such as health, banking, education, agricultural trade, or other pressing development issues."
Individuals and organizations working with mobile technologies to create change are invited to share their projects with the community through the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge submission form. Once you've hit submit for your challenge, it's public, via the NetSquared community.
Through a NetSquared community vote, fifteen finalists will be chosen. A panel of judges, selected by USAID, will then select the winners. The first place winner will receive a grant of $10,000, the two runner-ups will receive grants of $5,000 each. All three winners will have the opportunity to present their ideas to senior USAID officials, experts, and the public in Washington D.C.
The Challenge is open to individuals over the age of 18, groups of individuals, non-for-profit organizations, other non-commercial organizations and commercial organizations. Entries submitted by groups must identify one point person over the age of 18 to be contacted by DAI for technical and administrative issues. This person should appear first on the submission form. All applying organizations may not have more than 50 full-time employees. Neither Governments and quasi-government organizations, nor employees thereof are eligible for the Challenge.
Employees, independent contractors, officers, and directors of the US Agency for International Development, DAI and TechSoup, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies, and legal advisors, and the immediate family members and persons living in the same household of such persons, are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
Key dates:
November 28, 2008 - Submission Period Ends
December 1, 2008 - Community Voting Begins
December 12, 2008 - Community Voting Closes
December 15, 2008 - Fifteen USAID Featured Projects Announced
January 15, 2009 - Winners Announced
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