Win a trip to the M4D Conference in New Delhi, India!

Share your idea for a Future application for Development and win a trip to the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication on Development in New Delhi 28-29 February 2012!

The future Apps4D challenge focus on the development of mobile phone applications that in one way or another address the immense challenges our globe is facing concerning climate change, democracy, health, poverty reduction and increased livelihood in emerging growth economies.

The rise of mobile communication has been remarkable. By November 2010, over 5.3 billion had access to mobile telephony reaching up to 90 per cent of the world population. The proliferation of mobile telephony in the emerging growth economies open up a range of possibilities and new avenues for using the mobile telephone as a communication platform for change.

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Social Innovation, Social Enterprise, Social Change, Civil Society, State and Markets in the New Paradigm - Call For Papers

International Conference
Europe 16th – 17th July 2012

Around the globe, we are all searching for ways to empower citizens and communities, build new forms of enterprise and association, and develop new models of public governance.

Papers and presentations are invited which examine these issues, either on a global or regional basis, or with a single country focus. Presentations may be papers, addresses, workshops, interactive forums, or displays.

Expressions of interest in making a presentation should be forwarded, in no more than 300 words by 31st March 2012.

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