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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 Tertiary Level Institutions  

All interested competitors must register and submit their proposals online at the Competition website: http://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.

Deadline for the submission of proposals for phase 1 is June 15th 2010.

Further information at: http://www.edu.tt/cirp/cic/

2010-03-04

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