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There is still time to join the Apps For African City Life competition. You have until January 25^st.

All you have to do is submit:

1. A fully functioning application
2. A video which demonstrates your application (*)

More details about each local competition can be found below:
- African Competition
- Concours africain

Are you up for the challenge? This is your chance to win Android tablets and an opportunity to gain exposure within the telecom world, so don't delay!

Remember: Participants in the African competition are, of course, welcome to join the main competition as well with the possibility to win Euro 25 000.

Good luck!
The EAA Team

*For those of you who want to see an example of the kind of video we are looking for, watch this video from EAA 2011 competitors.

The first interface has been built. :) work is still in progress guyz

By now you’ve probably started the process of, at the very least, doing some research about the depth and breadth of the challenges and issues found in urban areas.

We thought we’d give you a hand in that area by pointing you to the newly released Networked Society City Index report, produced by Ericsson in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics and Improvement Labs. In part 3 of this series, we continue to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their social, economic and environmental development (known as the triple bottom line).

Browse around this page for informative videos, neat infographics and don’t forget to the check out this cool interactive city index that compares and contrasts cities based on their ICT infrastructure, readiness, and usage.

We hope this inspires you to create some really interesting apps for city life.

Added Value Application : Test Blog Entry

Rohith Nair

Today we are announcing the launch of a regional competition for application developers, startups and visionaries living in sub-Saharan Africa.

We are calling this regional competition ‘Apps for African City Life’ and it’s part the global 2013 Ericsson Application Awards (EAA 2013).

This competition runs until January 25th, 2013 and just like the main competition, we will accept entries in two categories: one for students and the other for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Teams are required to develop an application based on the Android platform that addresses the theme, ‘Apps for African City Life’ which is designed to promote the development of innovative ideas and mobile applications to address situations specific to urban centers across the region.

Now on to the important stuff … the prizes!

Winners of the African regional competition will win Android tablets.

1st prize: 64GB Android tablet
2nd prize: 32GB Android tablet
3rd prize: 16GB Android tablet

Entrants who participate in the African competition are also automatically entered into the global competition with a chance to win up to €25,000!

For more details about how to enter this competition, please click here for English et ici pour la version française.

When you’re hard at work, what’s better than a little inspiration? So we put together some updates and words of encouragement from some of last year’s winners.

Team MedAfrica
Winners of EAA 2012
(company category)

From Team MedAfrica, Winners of EAA 2012 (company category) with their app "MedAfrica" that aims at increasing access to health care among consumers in Africa:

“MedAfrica team is doing well. We are developing version two [of our application] which we will be launching very soon. The number of downloads is increasing by the day and we have gotten more partnerships. So things are looking up for us.”

Click here for video message from Ericsson CMO Arun Bhikshesvaran inviting you to join this year's Ericsson Application Awards.

The theme for 2013 is "Apps For City Life" and we welcome both small enterprise teams and student teams.

Don't forget that the deadline for submission is February 28, 2013, so don't delay!

Remember these two? It’s Phil Woodward and Jos Shepherd from Team HipSnip who won the 2011 edition of the EAA. We touched base with them last week to see what they’ve been up to since the competition. Sounds like they’ve been busy!

Here are a few words from Phil:

Phil Woodward & Jos Shepherd, winners of EAA 2011

HipSnip has had a good year in 2012.

Following winning the EAA in June 2011 HipSnip raised an initial seed round of funding to further develop their shopping Q&A app. As the product and business developed, what became clear was that there were a number of potential commercial models that could be followed, beyond focusing purely on a consumer mobile app (which can be difficult and expensive to build).

We invite student developers and those working in SMEs to participate in the competition. As always, the competition involves submitting an original Android application that has not been published elsewhere.

This year, we have made some changes to the competition to make it even better!

What’s new?
* Well, first of all, there is more prize money to be had, which is always a good thing!
* The theme for this year is “Apps for City Life” to drive innovation for the Networked Society
* The competition will be more open, so keep an eye on the campaign site for details

Before you get started, please take a look at the rules and regulations
Keep an eye out for instructions on the first stage of the competition as they will be posted soon.

Good luck!

Say you have a great idea for an application and have limited experience with Android development. Where should you start? We would like to share a link to a page that describes how to install the Android SDK and set up your development environment for the first time.

Setup of Android SDK and development environment

Also, check out the tutorial Hello World