2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge submissions

ECONOMIC GROWTH & TRADE (1-12)

 
1) Armenian Monuments Awareness Project: Preservation Through Audio Tours Using Mobile

2) Assured Labor

3) BizWiz - The Business Helper

2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge submissions

AGRICULTURE

1) Agrotext In Kenya

Mobile innovations from the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

The three winners of the first USAID Development 2.0 Challenge show that in developing countries, cell phones—and in particular the text messages (SMS) they can send so cheaply and quickly—offer huge potential for development efforts.

Mobile payment systems are turning out to be a truly disruptive technology in Kenya. The great success of M-Pesa, the now prototypical example of mobile payments, has the banks frightened, at least according to an article in the Nairobi Star.

We are pleased to introduce you to the three winning projects from the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge. We are elated with the caliber of the winners. They are (in alphabetical order):

We are pleased to introduce you to the three winning projects from the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge. We are elated with the caliber of the winners. They are (in alphabetical order):

The greatest challenge Kenyan farmers face concerning information is that they do not have access to technical details of farming (Agriculural Research & Extension Network 2000).

Check out the top finalists for mobile innovations for developing countries in the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge! More than 6,000 votes were cast from people around the world in USAID's first-ever open source challenge.

With International Human Rights day on the minds of many, the GDC would like to draw attention to the voices of content producers around the world. The following post describes "crowdsourcing", a term that encapsulates the sourcing of user-generated content across borders, geographic and otherwise.