[kictanet] Call for entries to WSA Mobile 2012

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Dear Listers,

Find below the WSA Mobile 2012 call for entries.

Regards
Andrew


*Media Release [Nairobi, June 5].*
App-etite! Kenya goes mobile again in 2012

UN based World Summit Award Mobile calls for entries – Deadline July 22,
2012

Grace is no longer isolated. Her mother invented an i-Phone App for Autists
that helps Grace communicate with others. The Grace App for Autism is one
of 40 World Summit Award Mobile (WSA-mobile) winners 2010. It shows how
mobile solutions can efficiently include others and have value add for
users. In 2012 the second WSA-mobile edition will again select and promote
the world’s best mobile content and applications.

The global WSA-mobile database will be open to nominations from Kenya until
July 22, 2012. *To take part in the global contest, please get in touch
with Louisa Gikonyo, louisa.gikonyo at gmail.com.*

In an ocean of Apps it is hard to select between mediocrity and quality.
Local mobile solutions that operate in native languages and a specific
culture area have a hard time to compete with mainstream solutions. Hence,
WSA-mobile looks for the peculiar that can have great impact.

Applicants are invited to submit their projects to
louisa.gikonyo at gmail.comuntil July 22, 2012 in these eight categories:

*1. m-Business & Commerce 5. m-Tourism & Culture*
*2. m-Government & Participation 6. m-Media & News*
*3. m-Learning & Education 7. m-Environment & Health*
*4. m-Entertainment & Lifestyle 8. m-Inclusion & Empowerment*

“WSA-mobile is the only global award that takes place in the framework of
the United Nations and its World Summit on the Information Society. It is
unique in its focus on content richness. Hence the WSA-mobile categories
reflect all parts of social and cultural life”, WSA-mobile Chairman Peter
A. Bruck says.

An international jury of eminent experts will select the best submissions
in a multiday-session on the basis of content depth and creativity in Abu
Dhabi from September 9 to 13. The best m-Content producers will receive the
World Summit Award-Mobile in January 2013 in Abu Dhabi. They will have the
chance to network and present their projects to highly profiled mobile
experts, government and business leaders from all over the world.


*About World Summit Award-Mobile*

Organised by the International Center for New Media (ICNM) in Salzburg, the
World Summit Award Mobile is a global initiative within the framework of,
and in cooperation with, the United Nations World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS), in collaboration with UNESCO, UNIDO and UN GAID. The
WSA-mobile is the only ICT event worldwide, that reaches the mobile
community in over 160 countries. Abu Dhabi, as the city of the award’s key
partner ADSIC (Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre), is host for all
WSA-mobile Awards.

Visit us on www.wsa-mobile.org, facebook.com/WorldSummitAward and
twitter.com/WSAoffice

*Contact:*

Louisa Gikonyo
louisa.gikonyo at gmail.com
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