UPDATE: Congratulations to the top three finalists in the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge, who are, in alphabetical order:

• Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Response  (Winner - $10,000)
• ClickDiagnostics: A Micro-Entrepreneurship Based Model to Transform Healthcare Delivery through Mobile Telemedicine  (Runner-Up - $5,000)
  
• Ushahidi v2 - Mobile.Crisis.Reporting  (Runner-Up - $5,000)
  

The top three finalists will be honored at the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge Awards Ceremony on January 8, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

All Top Fifteen Projects listed in alphabetical order:

• Agrotext in Kenya
• Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Response
• ClickDiagnostics: A Micro-Entrepreneurship Based Model to Transform Healthcare Delivery through Mobile Telemedicine
• FloodSMS – Early Detection and Warning of Catastrophic Flooding via SMS
• Freecycle.org Global Smartphone/SMS Gift Economy
• Frogtek: mobile business solutions for micro-entrepreneurs
• HarassMap - Reporting & Mapping Sexual Harassment on the Streets via SMS
• Job creation, income generation, and affordable lighting through "micro-solar" products
• MIDA - Medical In-field Diagnostic Assistant
• Mobilizing Medical Records in Resource Poor Settings
• Out-of-Poverty Coordination Games
• QuestionBox - Democratizing Information and News for the Illiterate, Poor and Unconnected
• RESDIDA: Mobile Content Distribution Platform to Scale Organizations' Reach to Poor Communities
• Solar powered, evaporative refrigerators for remote storage of biologics
• Ushahidi v2 - Mobile.Crisis.Reporting