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GSMA launches innovation drive
Tim Green Jul 2 2007, 12:15pm
The GSMA has launched the ‘Mobile Innovation Programme’ to encourage creative developers.
The aim is to encourage the development of innovative mobile products and services and bring them to end-users.
Senior execs from operators and venture capitalists will review submissions from innovators and identify the top 50 small companies targeting the mobile sector. This will take place ahead of a new Mobile Innovation Summit at the GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress in Macau in November.
The 50 will have the opportunity to meet operators and investors at the Summit and be recognised at an awards ceremony. Execs from KTF, SingTel, Smart, Softbank and Telenor will be among the judges for the awards.
The process will be repeated for another Innovation Summit at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona in February 2008 and again for standalone summits to be held in other regions of the world later in that year.
The deadline for submissions is September 14th and the categories are:
Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service
Most Innovative Wireless Device-Centric Technology
Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or Platform
Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market
