Dear Listers,<div><br></div><div>Find below the WSA Mobile 2012 call for entries.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b><u>Media Release [Nairobi, June 5].</u></b></div>
<div>App-etite! Kenya goes mobile again in 2012</div><div><br></div><div>UN based World Summit Award Mobile calls for entries – Deadline July 22, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The global WSA-mobile database will be open to nominations from Kenya until July 22, 2012. <b>To take part in the global contest, please get in touch with Louisa Gikonyo, <a href="mailto:louisa.gikonyo@gmail.com">louisa.gikonyo@gmail.com</a>.</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Applicants are invited to submit their projects to <a href="mailto:louisa.gikonyo@gmail.com">louisa.gikonyo@gmail.com</a> until July 22, 2012 in these eight categories:</div><div><br></div><div><b>1. m-Business & Commerce<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. m-Tourism & Culture</b></div>
<div><b>2. m-Government & Participation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6. m-Media & News</b></div><div><b>3. m-Learning & Education<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7. m-Environment & Health</b></div>
<div><b>4. m-Entertainment & Lifestyle<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>8. m-Inclusion & Empowerment</b></div><div><br></div><div>“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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>About World Summit Award-Mobile</b></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Visit us on <a href="http://www.wsa-mobile.org">www.wsa-mobile.org</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/WorldSummitAward">facebook.com/WorldSummitAward</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/WSAoffice">twitter.com/WSAoffice</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Contact:</b></div><div><br></div><div>Louisa Gikonyo</div><div><a href="mailto:louisa.gikonyo@gmail.com">louisa.gikonyo@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>
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