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HRC Mobile Challenge: Winners Announced!

ucberkeley hrc mobile challengeIt's been an action-packed Challenge season, and the winners keep rolling in! NetSquared and UC Berkeley's (UCB) Human Rights Center are pleased to announce the top three winning Projects from the HRC Mobile Challenge. Stay tuned for the winners of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Microsoft Mobile Challenge, announced May 26-27 at the N2Y4 Conference.

Congratulations to the HRC Mobile Challenge winners:

  • Guardian: Secure, Private, Anonymous Telephone
    Google Android's open-source mobile telephony platform provides the foundation for a new type of phone that cloaks its user and their data, both on the device itself and as it communicates around the world (1st Place Winner - $15,000)
  • Freedom Fone
    Freedom Fone is a free, open-source software tool that can be used to build a dial-up information service in any language. Its easy interface lowers the barriers to using Interactive Voice Response for outreach. It empowers non-technical organizations to build automated information services that are available to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (2nd Place Winner - $10,000)
  • Digital Democracy's Handheld Human Rights
    Handheld Human Rights empowers human rights groups based around Burma's borders to share critical infor ¬mation and document violations on a map to spur international advocacy. HHR uses SMS gateways to connect people reporting abuses to a web-based hub, efficiently leveraging the work of existing projects through a cen ¬tral communications point. (3rd Place Winner - $5,000)
  • Bug4Good: Open Source for Human Rights (Honorable Mention)

Congratulations to all of the winners and thanks to all of the Projects who participated!   View and support all Projects in the UCB HRC Mobile Challenge here.

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