Calling all East and Southern African mobile phone app developers.
Chembe Ventures, a company I founded, is sponsoring a competition on Vodafone’s Betavine Social Exchange. The competition is designed to encourage innovative mobile solutions to assist low-income residents in urban communities address a specific or general security problem. One prize of US $ 5,000 will be awarded to the winning entry.
* Entrants must be registered as a developer in the Betavine community
* Entries need to be written in English
* Entries must be designed for deployment in one of the following countries: Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa or Tanzania.
Entries must provide solutions under one or more of the following headings:
* early warning notifications of criminal activity, violence or other security threats
* assistance for families, communities at risk of crime
* reducing crime, preventing the spread of violence
* location, identification and assistance of victims of violence or crime
For more information on how to enter the competition and to read the full brief please visit the Betavine Social Exchange.
