{"id":12453,"date":"2012-10-11T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2012-10-11T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:15:44","slug":"call-now-open-gsma-mwomen-design-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2012\/10\/11\/call-now-open-gsma-mwomen-design-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"[CALL] Now Open &#8211; GSMA mWomen Design Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing to invite you to take a look at the recently launched\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/designchallenge.mwomen.org\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mWomenDC&amp;utm_source=direct_b\" target=\"_blank\">GSMA mWomen Design Challenge<\/a>.\u00a0It\u2019s a competition seeking creative solutions for making the smartphone user experience more intuitive for technically illiterate users, particularly women, in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>There is already a mobile phone gender gap in the developing world, where feature phones with basic voice and SMS capabilities are currently the norm. Smartphones are forecast to proliferate in these markets over the next few years.\u00a0 The aim of this challenge is to address some of the usage barriers for women now, to prevent them falling further behind in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider joining in the challenge and letting your colleagues, friends and networks know about this exciting opportunity.\u00a0 Entries can be submitted until 14 December, 2012.\u00a0 Winners, who will be announced in February in Barcelona at GSMA\u2019s Mobile World Congress, will receive prizes up to US$20,000, and will have the opportunity to speak with potential investors interested in commercializing strong innovations.\u00a0 We encourage you to check it out at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/designchallenge.mwomen.org\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mWomenDC&amp;utm_source=direct_b\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/designchallenge.mwomen.<wbr>org<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks if you can support!<\/p>\n<p>Sarah<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qtel.qa\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Qtel Group<\/a>,\u00a0in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">USAID<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausaid.gov.au\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">AusAID<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing to invite you to take a look at the recently launched\u00a0GSMA mWomen Design Challenge.\u00a0It\u2019s a competition seeking creative solutions for making the smartphone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}