Deadline: 15 June 2014
World Summit Youth Award is inviting applications from young developers and digital entrepreneurs to showcase their projects/products/applications developed using internet and mobile to put the United Nations Millennium Development Goals into Action.
Categories –
- Fight Poverty, Hunger and Disease
- Education for All
- Power 2 Women
- Create your Culture
- Go Green
- Pursue Truth
Eligibility Criteria –
- The online or mobile project to be entered in to the contest must be initiated and executed by young people under the age of 30 (born on or after January 1, 1984) from any of the UN member states.
- The product, project, or application may be in any language.
- The projects, products, or applications must be fully functional and operational at the time of submission and must be accessible via the internet whether it is designed for fixed line, broadband or mobile use.
- The submitted product or application must be completed after January 1st, 2012. For a project or product completed earlier the submitter have to document that significant alterations and/or improvements and/or additions have been made in the period thereafter.
- Products/projects or applications which have been submitted in the WSYA in previous years cannot be submitted again. For a project which has been already submitted before, the submitter have to document significant alterations and/or improvements and/or additions.
- Winning project cannot be submitted twice.
- The submitted product or application must be free of offensive or plagiarized content and may not violate human rights as laid out in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and its application by international human rights courts or panels recognized by the United Nations Organization.
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