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Apps for Climate Change: Call for Applications

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Are you a software developer and interested in climate change? Join this competition for the best apps for climate change.

The World Bank has released new data and tools on climate change as the latest additions to its Open Data Initiative. The Apps for Climate Competition aims to bring together the best ideas from scientists, application developers, civil society organizations, and development practitioners to create innovative apps using World Bank data.

The applications should help raise awareness, measure progress, or help in some other way to address the development challenges of climate change. Submissions may be any kind of software application, be it for the web, a personal computer, a mobile handheld device, console, SMS, or any software platform broadly available to the public.

The only other requirement is that the proposed application use one or more datasets from the World Bank Data Catalog available at data.worldbank.org or the Climate Change Knowledge Portal.

Deadline for submissions is March 16, 2012.

Please see more information and application guidelines.