WorldBank Apps for Development: $15,000 USD

The Apps for Development Competition http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/ aims to bring together the best ideas from both the software developer and the development practitioner communities to create innovative apps using World Bank data.

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 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.

Read more about the Development Competition here http://www.flukkytom.com/?p=1009

Best of Luck!!!