Smart Accessibility Awards will promote apps that improve the lives of senior citizens and people with disabilities.
The competition will award the best smartphone app across four different categories:
1. Social participation: Helping users to participate actively in society and benefit from the facilities that the new technologies can offer, whatever their age, disability and/or capacity.
2. Independent living: Apps that help people be more autonomous and to perform daily tasks independently.
3. Mobility: For more independence and better use of transport. It can also refer to the use of mobile devices to be guided in unknown environments.
4. Wellbeing: Heathcare related.
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The total prize fund of the €200k will be split equally between the four winners.
The competition is open from 14 June 2011 to 15 October 2011 and all entries should be submitted to http://developer.vodafone.com/smartaccess2011.
All qualifying entries will be evaluated in November by a jury, and 12 finalists will be selected and requested to present their app before the final jury in Brussels in early December at a live final, where the four overall winners will be chosen.
The programme is supported by AGE Platform Europe (a network of around 160 organisations for people aged 50+) and the European Disability Forum.
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