Challenge: Mobile Tech To Help Others
10:08, 22 April 2009
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Microsoft is sponsoring a Challenge to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human and community development, specifically around one of the eight United Nations Millennium Development goals.
A panel of five judges, selected by Microsoft, will choose three winners, to be announced at the N2Y4 Mobile Conference. Winners will receive cash awards of $15,000 (first place), $10,000 (second place), and $5,000 (third place) to further develop and implement their ideas.
From the Challenge web site:
Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smartphones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world and holds great potential for impact in areas such as health, banking, agriculture, education and other pressing development areas.
The Microsoft Mobile Challenge for Development encourages you to help contribute to one of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals by creating a mobile solution designed to meet the needs of people in developing communities and help solve some of the toughest problems facing our world today!
Appropriately, this Challenge is being done in cooperation with NetSqaured.
