Develop Mobile App for Health win 50K with mHealth Alliance Award

New mHealth Alliance Award to Spur Innovation in Wireless Solutions to Global Health Challenges

Mobile phone are useful communication tools, you can use your phone to call you wife to let her know you will not get home in time so that your dinner will not end up in the dog. Your wife on the other hand could call you on your mobile to remind you that little Charlie has run out of nappies. For the show-offs, you can bore other traveller in the quiet train carriage about that skiing holiday in Switzerland you just got back from.

Contrast some of the uses we put mobile phone to in the UK with what people in the developing world use it for; farmers in remote rural location in Africa use it to receive vital weather updates, peasants in far flung corners of the world use it for banking and trading. All over the developing world, mobile phones are used for crucial things, some of them literally a matter of life and death.

The technology and infrastructure for mobile communication and mobile phone handset itself is now widespread in the developing countries, application that run on the mobile phone to help developing communities do even more important things are few and far between, that is why a consortium of organisations lead by Vodafone Americas Foundation and the mHealth Alliance come together to create and award called mHealth Alliance Award.
The award encourages mobile phone application developers to come up with solutions to help solve some of the healthcare issues in developing countries or to quote the organisers of the award “ The award will be granted to the developer of an innovative wireless technology with the most potential to address critical health challenges, especially in developing regions.

David Aylward, Executive Director of the mHealth Alliance, pointing out the wide reach of mobile in developing world he said ”
“In places where roads remain unpaved, and where basic infrastructure such as clean water and electricity are scant, mobile phones already have become an empowering force for millions,” David Aylward then trows the challenge to application developers “The mHealth Alliance Award challenges innovators and social entrepreneurs to use mobile technology to advance health delivery in even the most remote environments, such as through improved diagnosis, treatment or access to information.”

If you are a mobile application developer, this is you chance to develop an application that could save lives. If you application is original and really useful, not only could you win $50,000 but you could win an awful lot more, here is the full detail of what the person or organisation that create the winning application could expect:

The winner of the mHealth Alliance Award will receive a cash prize and benefits totalling $50,000, including participation in Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society’s Global Social Benefit Incubator Program (GSBI™). In addition, the winner will receive strategic and networking assistance from the mHealth Alliance, an umbrella group founded by the Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation that supports cross-sector collaboration in delivering health care to the furthest reaches of wireless communications.

If I was a mobile application developer, I will put away the half finished iPod game I am working on for this worth wile mobile application competition.

You can find more information about this project at Project Vodafone.

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Google incorporates real-time data into SERPs

Google real-time web goes live

Real-time search also called real-time-web results Google has been trying for some time is now being incorporated into their SERPs. This mean in addition to the indexed pages it usually displays on its search result pages, it will also display information from news organisations, blogs, forums, Twitter and other trusted sites as soon as such information is published. The real-time web feature will also index status updates from Facebook, public information from MySpace and tweets.

Google claimed that it is the first search engine to integrate real-time web into its result pages, the feature will also be available in PDA such as iPhone and Android powered PDAs.

The real-time data will be displayed in a constantly updating stream within the regular Google search engine result pages.

Busiest online shopping day ever; today 9th of December

Cyber Monday, busiest Online Shopping Day in the UK

According to ecommerce and Internet analysts, the busiest day in the history of online shopping will be about lunchtime today, Monday the 9th of December 2009 when millions of online shoppers are expected to log on to their computers, surf to their favourite online retailers to buy items for their loved ones Christmas stockings. It is estimated that collectively, online shoppers in the UK will spend about £4,000 per second.

The organisation behind the statistics, IMRG, which is a consortium of online retailers said today is significant in Christmas shopping because the first Monday in December is when most employers have paid their staff, the staff in turn have money to spend and some people try to get their Christmas shopping out of the way in time and also place orders on time to give online retailers to get products delivered before Christmas. Approximately £340 Million will be spend on shopping for gift tomorrow, if the forecast is accurate, this means an increase of 10% over 2008. A great chunk of the spending is expected to be made on consumer electronic, DVDs and Music CDS. Some of the items that tops shoppers Christmas shopping list this year includes iPhones, Susan Boyles Album and Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince DVD.

Most of the orders are expected to be placed between 9-10AM and at lunchtime when office workers spend their lunch break ordering presents online. Leading companies such as M&S are expecting significant traffic to their website and call centres, Marks and Spencer are expecting about 3.5 million hits, John Lewis is expecting to take £4.5 million on Monday the 9th of December which is expected to be the busiest online shopping day in 2009. The high street on the other hand is expected to remain busy right until the last shopping day before Christmas.

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