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Microsoft Mobile Challenge for Development: Winners Announced at N2Y4
The Microsoft Mobile Challenge for Development encouraged innovations for applying mobile technologies for development, specifically around one of the eight United Nations Millennium Development goals. A panel of 5 judges, selected by Microsoft, chose three winners, announced today at the N2Y4 Conference. And the winners are...
- FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics (First place -$15,000)
- Face the Change (Second Place - $10,000)
- Help is only an SMS away (Third Place -$5,000)
- AGRICULTURAL MARKET INFORMATION SERVICES (AMIS) PROJECT (Honorable Mention - $1,000)
About the Microsoft Mobile Challenge for Development
The 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.
"At Microsoft, we believe that making technologies that are relevant, affordable, and accessible to more than 5 billion people around the world can enable sustained social and economic opportunity."
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.
Learn more about the Winning Projects here:
- FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics (First place -$15,000)
- Face the Change (Second Place - $10,000)
- Help is only an SMS away (Third Place -$5,000)
- AGRICULTURAL MARKET INFORMATION SERVICES (AMIS) PROJECT (Honorable Mention - $1,000)
Check out all the participating Microsoft Challenge Projects here.
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I've seen the winning
I've seen the winning projects and I must say that they deserve winning. Very Innovative.
I have read about all of
I have read about all of these three projects and I would say that some ideas were really original. I didn't really like the third place project, because I think that children will send there sms to have some fun or to laugh from the answers (in most cases). While there is a telephone line they are afraid to call and talk nonsense, but if there will be the SMS service, they will do that, believe me. The second place is worth trying but I saw this idea somewhere else before reading here. And at last, I fully agree with Microsoft about the first place. This is the best candidate to win. We are experiencing a lot of health care problems nowadays, so this feature would be really helpful for our society. To sum up, it is very nice that our modern society started to use mobile platform in various purposes. I am a mobile software developer by myself so these things are making me really happy. Thanks for the great article, I will be keeping eyes on your blog.
Sincerely,
James Lyndon from mobile application development
Technological Advances
Well done FrontlineSMS, the rate things are improving with technology there are likely to be more of these such competitions and no doubt new innovators. Sometimes it is impossible to keep up with the advances going on.
great
super post!