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The mWomen team  has announced the launch of the mWomen BOP App Challenge sponsored by Vodafone, at the official launch of the mWomen programme at the US State Department hosted by Secretary Hillary Clinton on 7th October 2010.
 
This exciting challenge, supported by Frog Design and Carmel Ventures aims to build on the momentum currently in the marketplace for innovative app design and to provide fresh, original app solutions for women in developing countries living on under $2 a day. It also aims to catalyse an increase in the adoption and use of services provided through mobile technology, enhancing and empowering women’s decision making process.
 
This challenge is in line with the mWomen programme objectives of bringing access and innovative products and services to currently unconnected women in developing countries. It is a two tier competition: Tier 1 will be an App for a low end device and Tier 2 will be an App for Smart Phones.

 

All the mWomen Challenge entries must present a fully developed and built App solution with a proven business model and full technical spec with illustrations and/or a demo provided.   In short the-end to-end business case must be shown and proven.  There will be two winners, one for each tier, and each will own the intellectual property (IP) for their App.
 
Tier 1 - Apps to be functional for low-end devices that support the following as a minimum:
-  SMS
-  IVR
-  WAP 2.0 web browser (xHTML)
-  GPRS class 10
-  EGPRS class 10
-  Java: MIDP 2.0
-  USSD
 
Tier 2 – Apps to be functional for smartphones devices on one of the following platforms:
-  Symbian
-  iPhone (iOS)
-  Andoid
-  Java ME
-  Blackberry
-  Flash Lite
-  Windows Phone
 
The winners will be announced at Mobile World Congress, the largest ICT event in the world, hosted in Barcelona, (www.gsmworld.com ) at the official awards ceremony on Tuesday 15th February 2011.
 
The winner will receive full support for their app to not only help change the lives of millions of women living on less than $2/day, but to also become a global leader in app design with distribution, design and business support.
 
The prize:
- $10,000.00 to the winner of each tier sponsored by Vodafone
- Entrance to Mobile World Congress 2011 for one team member of each winning tier
- Flight and accommodation to attend MWC 2011 for one team member of each winning tier
- Opportunity to showcase your winning app at the mWomen Seminar at MWC
- Opportunity to showcase your winning app at the next mWomen Working Group (post MWC 2011)
- Exclusive access to a leading venture capitalist to assist in the development of your app
- Exclusive access to a leading innovation and design company
 
 
To enter please go to www.mwomen.org/appschallenge
 
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