Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Reliance Rural Mobile Application Contest

Reliance Developer Programme of Reliance Communications has launched the Rural Mobile Application Contest,2007 - 08. This is the 3rd such contest held under the aegis of Reliance Developer Programme (RDP) to encourage mobile application development in the country. The contest is an initiative to tap and unlock the talent of the developer community across India by giving them a platform to test and hone their skills in developing useful and innovative wireless applications.

The Contest is open to all Software professionals, Software Developers, Companies, Students, self employed professionals and Content vendors/ Aggregators.

This year the focus will be on rural applications for transportation, m-commerce, health care services, governance, education, information and location based services that cater to the needs of rural population.

Also, for the first time mobile applications will be developed for both GSM and CDMA technology. Applications can be submitted for WAP, Java, Reliance Java, Brew, Brew Lite, VoxML and Symbian environments.

The participants can look forward to attractive cash prizes and an opportunity to monetize their applications in perpetuity!

For more details on the contest and to register for the contest log on to www.dadp.com.

Source: mail from Chanda Mahajan, Reliance Developer Programme Team