Microsoft Mobile for Development (2009)
Challenge Winners
How to Apply
Rules and Guidelines
Key Dates
FAQ
Project Gallery
Judging Criteria
Microsoft is pleased to announce the Microsoft Mobile Challenge for Development.
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.
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!
Microsoft Mobile Challenge Winners
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)
How it Works
Microsoft is sponsoring a Challenge to encourage 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, 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.
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How to Apply
Four Easy Steps to Participate:
- Register and/or Login
- Click on Username
- Click on "Submit a Project to the Project Gallery" under My Project Idea
- Select "Microsoft" from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form
Rules and Guidelines
Be sure to carefully review the Rules and Guidelines
Key Dates
- Submission Form opens: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:00am PDT
- Submission Form closes: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:00pm PDT
- Microsoft Judging: May 20, 2009 - May 25, 2009
- Winners Announced: May 27, 2009 at N2Y4 Conference
Project Gallery
To View Participants please check the Microsoft Project Gallery
FAQ
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Judging Criteria
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