You are invited to the 2011 Apps4Africa: Climate Challenge Brainstorming Session taking place at
the Hive Colab in Kampla on the 25th of November, 2011.  To register see link below.

The 2011 Apps4Africa: Climate Challenge builds on the success of the 2010 Apps4Africa: Civic
Challenge in which civil society challenged program developers to find innovative technological solutions
to everyday problems on issues ranging from transparency and governance to health and education.
The 2011 competition begins in Western and Central Africa in October, with Eastern and Southern
Africa to follow shortly thereafter. Winners will receive prizes, including cash awards totaling $25,000
USD, gadgets and travel. Private partners, including TED and Indigo Trust, may contribute technical
assistance, prizes, and follow-on support for the new partnerships created by this platform.
The Apps4Africa Challenge began in late 2009 when several individuals, organizations, and private
companies joined together to propose a competition that would reward local innovators for their ideas and
projects.

The 2010 challenge winners received prize money, media attention, and a special congratulatory
message from the US Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton.

With coordination with software developer Appfrica International, Apps4Africa will bring civil
society, academia and private sector organizations together with African technology innovators to
develop applications that address local climate change adaptation challenges. In doing so, we seek
to raise African public awareness of climate change adaptation in Africa on these issues; support the
development of civil society and private-sector networks; and highlight African solutions to local climate
change challenges.

The Climate Challenge centers around several strategic themes that coincide with policy decisions that
will be debated and decided upon by world leaders at the 17th United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (COP17) conference in Durban, South Africa. The benefit of this is that it increases
the chance that competition participants will find very willing decision makers eager to try, recommend,
and otherwise support the applications and projects developed for the competition.
The Apps4Africa brainstorming sessions are workshops where software developers, students, policy
makers, decision makers and others come together to discuss challenges, propose solutions and submit
their apps to the Apps4Africa Climate Challenge.

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CONTEST DATES & INFO
Eastern Africa (Begins October 20th - December 20th)
Categories for Entry - Agriculture (Distribution), Early Warning and/or Disaster Preparedness, Resource
Management, Forestry/Deforestation, Transportation/Traffic/Emmissions, Food Security, Livestock,
Health & Sanitation

Application Types - Mobile (Feature phone), Mobile (Smart Phone), Web, Desktop
Countries hosting Eastern Africa Regional Brainstorming Sessions - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania,
Rwanda, Ethiopia.

Contact: Darlyne Komukama (Shakai Media) - darlkom@gmail.com
Barbara Birungi (Hive Colab) - birungibarbs@appfrica.org

Register for the Kampala event here. http://apps4africakampala.eventbrite.com/ The event is free but
space is limited.

For more information, visit the Apps4Africa website at www.apps4africa.org