Organizer: Ek Soch                 
                  Digital Empowerment Foundation

Venue:

Description:
Ek Soch in association with Digital Empowerment Foundation launches mPower Forum Competition. Every fresh idea or active project on mobile based applications, interested in incubation and acceleration process of mPower Forum is invited. Business Plan/ model to be shared should focus on Mobile phone usage [application development /service delivery], Scalability/ Marketability and Long term Commercial Viability in 10 categories.

• Health
• Agriculture
• Financial inclusion
• Employment generation & livelihood
• Education & Learning
• Entertainment
• Commerce
• News & Journalism
• Women
• Citizen Centric

The interested nominees are invited to share their business plans supporting their ideas and give their expression of interest before the last date of accepting applications.

mPower Forum envisions to encourage social entrepreneurship in the use of mobile phone as ICT tool for development by helping innovative ideas to grow in terms of social relevance & commercial sustenance; to create an ecosystem of entrepreneurship development in mobile for masses, started from incubation and nurturing to growth and acceleration.

As we are in the midst of selecting best mobile innovations and ideas for our mPower Forum - Incubation & Acceleration center. If you are interested and also find your self eligible according to the application criteria. Kindly send us your expression of interest and have a chance to get financial support from Ek Soch and mentorship support by the experts from the Industry.

Objectives:

• To create a group of innovators inspiring mobile innovations to address the basic and specific issues of the society;
• To ensure Learning based on the shared methods of solving the problem;
•  Transformation of ideas into surface level – user tested applications;
• Nurturing by the different pathways adopted in the concept of mPower Forum;
• Acceleration through end – to – end support to all incubatees for two years’ period of Incubation.
• To ensure the short term/ long term impact upon the beneficiaries using the application
• To ensure marketability and sustainability of the idea

Last date to apply: February 28, 2012.

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Contact details:
mPower Forum
House 44, III Floor, Kalu Sarai
New Delhi – 110016
Tel: 011-26532786 / 26532787
Email: eksochmpower@gmail.com / chitra@defindia.net.
Website: http://mpowerforum.eksoch.in/