May be of interest to some.

Melody Clark

Communications Specialist

Technology & Social Change (TASCHA)

tascha.uw.edu

From: Zürcher, Robin [mailto:robin.zurcher@itu.int]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:57 AM
To: tascha@uw.edu
Subject: Young Innovators Competition Challenge 4

Dear Sir or Madam

The ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition launched the 4th and last challenge of this year. Given your work with the Technology & Social Change Group at the University of Washington Information School many young people in your network might be interested to apply. We kindly ask you to support us in promoting this challenge in order to encourage as many bright minds as possible to participate. Please feel free to distribute the flyer which you can find in the attachment.

This challenge is in partnership with the IEEE IoT Initiative and we are looking for the best ideas for new businesses and innovations on how the Internet of Things can be used for social good. Since this is a co-creation challenge, we are looking for any useful thoughts or information which might help us, as a community to develop the concept for a new startup. We will be accepting ideas until November 03, 2014.

The competition is open to 18-30 year-old young people from across ITU’s 193 member states. The winners are invited to the upcoming ITU Telecom World 2014 in Doha in December this year where they can showcase their innovative ideas and will enjoy mentoring and workshops on entrepreneurial skills. Prize money of up to USD 5,000 in the form of seed funding will be awarded to implement and bring to scale winning start-ups. Participants should go to https://ideas.itu.int to get more information and apply.

Please find more information in the Press Release. It is available in the six official UN languages, English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese.

You can also learn more about the competition at http://telecomworld.itu.int/take-part/innovate/. For any further material or assistance, please email us at young.innovators@itu.int.

Best regards,

Robin Zuercher

Young Innovators Competition Team