world bank running competion apps 4 Development

Great competition (read below) if your a developer and your truly suggest they run a parallel competion for young people go on world bank how about ?

We're challenging the public to create innovative software applications that move us a step closer toward solving some of the world's most pressing problems.


Get the key info at http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/




Involving mobile and open data around the millenium development goals
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.

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.