[kictanet] The Global Development Commons launches the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

[carthy]

Subject: Global Development
Commons launches the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge 

Greetings from the Global Development Commons,  
You are invited to participate in the 2008 USAID
Development 2.0 Challenge!  It's an open call for innovative mobile
technology applications for developing countries, and the USAID’s first
ever open source challenge.  The winning project ideas will receive grants
of up to $10,000 and present before USAID, development community, and industry
officials in Washington . 
The Challenge can be accessed through our website at www.usaid.gov/commons .  There are two ways to participate: 

a) If you have a great mobile technology application for developing
countries, y ou can enter the
contest by submitting your ideas  .  

b) At the same site, ANYONE can register to comment and then vote to select the best
submitted  ideas.   

We need your help to promote innovation!  Please share
the challenge website for the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge
with friends, colleagues, and other innovators you know. Attached is a PDF of
the flier, which we'd greatly appreciate you strategically placing at
your office or school, or featuring on your Facebook page, blog, or
website.   

Of course, you can always get the latest about the Commons
at our website, www.usaid.gov/commons . 

Let's Collaborate,  

The Global Development Commons Team  

Please forward this message to gather excitement for
the Global Development Commons, and encourage friends to sign up for this
listserv by visiting www.usaid.gov/commons 
and filling in the box in the upper right corner.  





      
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20081029/35a63655/attachment.htm>