UPDATE:   Challenge deadline extended to December 5th!

The 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge is underway and proposals are stacking up in the USAID Project Gallery.   You can read proposals, star your favorites, leave comments and collaborate with project teams, or submit your own!   Check out the newest projects!

Submissions are due December 5th!   Submit your idea today!

From the Project Gallery:

• Sondeo! - Mobile Canvassing
  Sondeo allows any non-profit or grassroots campaign to quickly collect canvassing data and interpret it, eliminating the need for data entry. As a canvasser travels from door to door, they can send their results via SMS, and those results will be immediately entered into a database.
• Moca Mobile - Scalable Mobile Imaging for Global Health Delivery
  Between 80 and 90 percent of the world's population live within range of a cellphone tower.     A centralized health record, accessible and updatable via mobile phones and web-browsers therefore permits a secure and continuous record of health care for the poorest section of society worldwide. The use of a mobile phone to add images, audio recordings and video, to a patient's medical record leverages an existing infrastructure to deliver medical technology and decision support to regions of the earth that lack a supply chain and infrastructure for training, hardware support and treatment compliance.
• MIDA - Medical In-field Diagnostic Assistant
  Every day, many of the rural poor in the developing world suffer from undiagnosed, yet treatable, health problems. This is largely due to a short supply of adequately trained healthcare professionals, sporadically located health facilities, and unevenly allocated government and NGO health resources.

Participate in 4 easy steps:

• Register and/or Login  
• Click on Username
• Click on "Submit a Project to the Project Gallery" under My Project Idea
• Select "USAID" from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form

Visit the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge Project Gallery to check out proposals, star your favorites, and comment and collaborate with the project teams or learn more about the Challenge.