[afren] FW: [PERI-CCs] Apps for development competition

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This competition may be of interest to people on this network and within national level networks. Apologies for any cross posting.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anne Powell 
> Sent: 21 October 2010 11:01
> To: PERii country coordinators' discussion list
> Cc: jdebuerba at worldbank.org; dlevy at worldbank.org; mkhek at worldbank.org
> Subject: [PERI-CCs] Apps for development competition
> 
> Hello, CCs
>  
> The World Bank are running a competition called "Apps for 
> Development" which opened on 7 October and will be running to 
> 10 January 2011, giving time for application developers to 
> develop applications around the open (free) World Bank 
> resources at http://data.worldbank.org 
> <http://data.worldbank.org>  and submit their entries.  Would 
> you be able to circulate information about this to any 
> colleagues who could be interested?  Full information is 
> available at http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/ 
> <http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/>  but I have 
> copied some of it below to give you an idea of what is 
> intended.  It would be really great if we had some entries!  
> If any participants would be interesting in knowing more 
> about World Bank events in their region, they can contact can 
> contact Richard Murby at rmurby at worldbank.org  with a copy of 
> their entry.
>  
> There is a press release about this competition at 
> http://go.worldbank.org/5CFGRGXSS0 
> <http://go.worldbank.org/5CFGRGXSS0> 
> 
> 
> The Competition challenges participants to develop software 
> applications related to one or more of the Millennium 
> Development Goals (MDGs). Submissions may be any kind of 
> software application, be it for the web, a personal computer, 
> a mobile handheld device, console, SMS, or any software 
> platform broadly available to the public. The only other 
> requirement is that the proposed application use one or more 
> datasets from the World Bank Data Catalog available at 
> data.worldbank.org.
> 
> The Apps for Development Competition aims to bring together 
> the best ideas from both the software developer and the 
> development practitioner communities to create innovative 
> apps using World Bank data.
> 
> The World Bank launched its Open Data Initiative in April, 
> 2010. This initiative made an array of data sets, including 
> the World Development Indicators, Africa Development 
> Indicators, and Millennium Development Goal Indicators - free for all.
> 
> Applications submitted to the Competition should address at 
> least one of the following objectives:
> 
> 1.	Raise awareness of at least one of the Millennium 
> Development Goals (MDGs), or 
> 2.	Contribute to progress toward meeting one of the MDGs by 2015.
> 
> Applications which best satisfy the competition criteria will 
> receive cash prizes and the opportunity to have their apps 
> featured on the World Bank Open Data website. Competition 
> participants are encouraged to also use other relevant 
> indicators and datasets, and to be creative in exploring 
> approaches for realizing the goals.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Anne
> 
> Anne Powell
> Programme Officer, Information Delivery
> International Network for the Availability of Scientific 
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