Caribbean Innovators Challenge: Mobile Applications!

It wasn't too long ago that I was waxing poetic about innovation. Even my last post about the need for an emergency SMS system for nations is a good lead in to the Caribbean Innovators Challenge:

The Caribbean ICT Research Programme of The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, is inviting proposals for “The Caribbean Innovators Challenge: Mobile Applications for Development.” This competition initiative, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is designed to contribute to the e-economy and e-education pillars of the Connectivity and Equity in the Americas (CEA) programme. Competitors will be required to:

• Propose a needs-based, mobile application for an identified community of low income earners in the Caribbean
• Indicate how the activities and / or outputs of the competition will be used in the teaching and/ or research programme at the competitor’s TLI.

All interested competitors must register and submit their proposals online at the Competition website: www.edu.tt/cirp/cic. Registered competitors will gain access to competition resources, feeds and updates during the length of the competition. Registration and participation in this competition is free of charge.

So get the young geeks warmed up and get them innovating. I have my own ideas, but I can't compete. Last I heard, I might be one of the judges.

You can - and probably should - download the call for proposals.