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Posted by KatrinVerclas on Feb 02, 2009
The Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley is announcing the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. The deadline for submission of applications is March 13, 2009. Winners will receive cash awards of $15,000 (first place), $10,000 (second place), and $5,000 (third place) to implement their ideas.
While there have been few implementations of mobile technoogy so far in human rights work, recent innovations have the potential to be used to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights, and disseminate this information in real time throughout the world. Mobile phones, combined with GPS, cameras, video, audio, and SMS are transforming the way the world understands and responds to emerging crises. Handheld data collection devices, such as PDAs, provide researchers with new ways of documenting mass violence and attitudes toward peace, justice, and social reconstruction in conflict zones.
Posted by webb on Oct 15, 2008
As Katrin Verclas posted last week, the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 has launched. The challenge is seeking innovative mobile technology projects.
Hosted on the NetSquared community site, you are invited to submitt your project idea to a community process:
- You will have an opportunity to submit your idea and receive feedback from NetSquared's 13,000 members.
- When the submission period ends, registered NetSquared users can partiicpate in an on-line vote to select 15 featured projects.
- Senior USAID staff will select a first place and two runners up. The first place winner will receive a grant of $10,000, with runners up receiving grants of $5,000 each. All three will have an opportunity to present their ideas to senior officials and the public.
To find out more about the challenge and, we hope, enter your idea, please visit: 2008 USAID Development 2.0 has launched. We look forward to seeing what you are working on.
Posted by webb on Mar 05, 2008
Over at Netsquared we're running a Mashup Challenge. In a nutshell, we're asking folks to contribute their ideas and then working, heads down crazy, to get them resources -- brains and $ -- to help move those ideas forward. And we want more mobile mashups represented.
There are three parts to the Challenge:
1. Applications: Individuals working to create change will share with the NetSquared Community what change they are trying to make, as well as the information/data sources they believe can be married to help create that change. Applications will be available online February 1 and accepted until March 14, 2008.
2. Recruiting and specification-building: The Net2Team will reach out to web-savvy collaborators to help translate your idea into a Mashup Project.
3. Mashup Development Teams will start building the mashups.
