The Vodafone Americas Foundation announces its Wireless Innovation Project, a new competition that seeks to identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to address critical social issues around the world. Learn more!
I have moved from being in a competitve mode for this contest to being one to congratulate those who already have productive teams working on health-focused mobile projects that will provide extra relief for problem areas of the world.
I think my position now for this contest would be to provide support for those pursuing projects that are:
I would like to propose that when this contest is finished, that there be a follow-up as to who can work together to compliment each others projects. There is a 'pool' of people who have not been aware of each other until this contest opened up and to harness this focus and reach would be something to serious consider pursuing.
Jason
Posting the initial run of this project URL http://mobile-democracy.re-configure.org has me thinking that "Collective Intelligence" + SMS is something to figure out how to develop further.
Something I will be mentioning in the project overview is the essential need for translators and perhaps employing people from http://www.telelanguage.com