Nokia takes global good to heart.
Jaymi Heimbuch
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Nokia has launched its third annual Calling All Innovators which aims to put the brightest minds to the task of developing technology that benefits developing countries. The company is investing $1 million in the winning ideas and inventors of the best hardware, software or service that improves the well being of citizens in impoverished nations.
Nokia and The Lonely Planet have worked together to create The Progress Project, a series of videos showing how mobile phones can help people in India. Indeed, mobile devices are a major source of helpful technology for daily life as well as activism for people in developing nations, and worldwide.
EETimes reports, "Nokia has sponsored research in cultural anthropology to discover how cellphones are being used in third-world countries where even electricity can be hard to find. It has helped write mobile applications to assist the poor in areas such as education, farming and banking and developed handsets that sell for as little as $32 in countries such as India and Africa."
And with the help of inventors and industrious minds, it hopes to find another smart technology through the Calling All Innovators Challenge. It isn't all about the phone itself - it's the software and apps that allow the user to accomplish tasks that are just as important, and that's where developers come into play.
Submissions for the 2010 Calling All Innovators contest will be accepted starting on Monday, 1 February 2010. The categories include Eco/Being Green, Entertainment, Productivity, and Life Improvement.
So, if you're a mobile and web application developer, put on your thinking cap and rope in all the other creative minds you know, read up on the contest, and help make the world a better place.
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