The first global competition for software

applications—help us reduce global poverty!

See your app on the World Bank’s website
Reach global audiences
Compete for exciting prizes

The Apps for Development Competition aims

to bring together software developers and About the Millennium
development practitioners to use World Bank data in Development Goals (MDGs)
the creation of innovative software applications. The MDGs represent a collective
The Competition challenges participants to develop ambition for our world. Simply
software apps related to one or more of the put, they express a vision of a
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The apps world where extreme poverty and
could serve to raise awareness, measure progress,
hunger have been eliminated, and
the economic and human welfare
or help achieve the MDGs. The app should also use
of poor people worldwide has been
one or more datasets from the World Bank Data
tangibly improved. The MDGs
Catalog, found at http://data.worldbank.org.
lay out specific targets related to
Who can enter? Entries may be made by any poverty – such as hunger, universal
individuals or teams, including researchers, education, and child health—to
academics, policy makers, non-profit or civil be reached by 2015.
society organizations, private sector companies,
statisticians, software developers, social entrepreneurs, etc.
What kind of “apps” or applications are eligible, and how will they be assessed?
Any software application—whether web-based, mobile, SMS, smart phone, desktop, or
tablet—that includes World Bank data will be qualified, as long as it meets the eligibility
requirements set forth on the official Competition website.
When are the deadlines? The Competition opens on October 7, 2010 and the deadline
for submissions is January 10, 2011.

For more information, rules, and submission guidelines, go to

www.worldbank.org/appsfordevelopment

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The first global competition for software applications—help us reduce global poverty!

The Apps for Development Competition aims to bring together software

developers and development practitioners to use World Bank data in the
creation of innovative software applications.

Here’s your chance to…

See your app on the Reach global Compete for
World Bank’s website audiences exciting prizes

For more information, go to www.worldbank.org/appsfordevelopment

We challenge participants to develop
software applications related to one or
more of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). The applications could serve to raise
awareness, measure progress toward, or help
achieve the MDGs. For more information on
the MDGs, go to the Competition website at
www.worldbank.org/appsfordevelopment
The proposed application should also
use one or more datasets from the
World Bank Data Catalog found at
http://data.worldbank.org.
Learn more @ www.worldbank.org/appsfordevelopment
We invite you to participate in this
competition—help to create apps which
leverage the data curated by the World Bank.
The deadline for submissions to the
Apps for Development competition is
January 10, 2010.
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