Blog - Competition

The GSMA Smarter App Challenge, launched at Mobile World Congress 2012, encourages developers to create mobile applications that are more user and network friendly. The Smarter App Challenge as a vehicle to drive readership and acceptance of the new GSMA Developer Guidelines aimed at optimizing battery life and reducing judicious use of mobile network resources. Backed by mobile operators including Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, KT Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Rogers Communications, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, Verizon Wireless and VimpelCom, this initiative is open to all GSMA members to support.

The Challenge Grand Prize is $10,000 and the overall winner will be ...

Last night we were delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards at a ceremony attended by the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Vodafone Group Chief Executive Vittorio Colao.

See the winners video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59FziRk0bU

The competition opened in June and after a number of judging rounds the final four winners were decided by a panel consisting of representatives from Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone Group Services Limited, Guardian Media Group plc the European Disability Forum and AGE Platform Europe.

The mobile internet is central to the daily ...

Are you looking to enter the Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards? Then don’t delay, entry closes on the 15th October. This leaves you just 3 days to finalise and submit your app!

PLEASE NOTE: We have noticed a bug which is resulting in uploads timing out after 2 minutes. If you are not able to complete your upload within that time, please reply to this mail, attaching your .apk file in zipped format along with the name of your app as well as company name, and we will confirm with you once your entry has been finalised. Apologies for ...

The Vodafone Foundation in association with the Digital Empowerment Foundation introduce the Women & Innovation for Mobile (WIN) Award. The aim of the 'WIN Awards' is to celebrate and recognise innovative mobile applications and solutions that enable empowered information and communication services delivery to women in India.

The “WIN” Awards seeks to identify innovative mobile solutions which meet the diverse needs of women under the following categories:

• Education
• Healthcare & Family
• Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship

The three winning solutions will each qualify for a funding grant of 44,00,000 INR to further develop and scale their mobile innovation to serve a larger ...

Earlier this week Vodafone hosted Smart Accessibility workshops in Belfast and Madrid. At both workshops there was a great turn out, and even better ideas and insights shared. Attendees from both the developer and accessibility communities joined together to share valuable info and there were even some great demos too.

For the Belfast workshop there were some fantastic presentations that looked at ‘an introduction to accessibility’ and advice from the industry on how to develop for this market. There was some pretty impressive technology on show that included voice recognition – and in fact how this can help in everyday life ...

At Vodafone developer we recently launched the Smart Accessibility Awards, where you have the chance to win a share of €200,000! In the lead up to the competition we’ve teamed up with Mobile Monday (http://www.mobilemonday.org.uk/) and ICT (www.ictktn.org.uk) to host four half-day  accessibility workshops, which kick off in Edinburgh on Friday 16^th September. Other locations include Manchester, London and Belfast, with some exciting European locations too including Madrid (September 28^th), the Netherlands and Germany. Further details will follow and we’ll let you know as soon as they’re ...

With just five weeks of the competition remaining, the race is on for you to submit your entry for the entry Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards and be in with a chance of winning a share of the €200,000 prize fund.

The programme is supported and co-organised by AGE Platform Europe, the European network of around 160 organisations of and for people aged 50+, and the European Disability Forum (EDF), the NGO that represents the interests of 80 million Europeans with disabilities.

Entries from across Europe will go head to head to win a share of the total prize ...

Many thanks to everyone who completed our recent developer survey. This information is invaluable in helping us deliver the best possible developer experience.

I’d also like to congratulate our winners, Lee Stone and Jason Kenny who were randomly selected to win a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes signed shirt, and Hemal Shah who was our third selection and wins a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes signed cap. Well done to you all!

Please remember to regularly check our developer website for all the latest resources and tools.

Earlier today (Wednesday 16 Feb 2010) Vodafone congratulated the winners of the Vodafone-sponsored GSMA mWomen Base of the Pyramid Apps Challenge at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011. The competition is a key component of the GSMA mWomen Programme and has drawn high quality entries from developers across the world, seeking to provide original mobile solutions targeted at the specific needs of women in developing countries.

Vodafone's work with the GSMA mWomen Programme will help bring the socio-economic benefits of mobile to women in developing markets worldwide. The programme is a sizable public-private partnership between the global mobile industry ...

We've just done this week's draw for the Vodafone Android app upload contest and the lucky winner is Alex Paraschiv from Advanced Mobile Applications (AMA) with their IQ Booster app. Congrats to Alex, your HTC Legend will be on its way to you shortly!

With this draw our Android apps competition now comes to a close. We'd like to congratulate again all our winners from the seven weekly draws, all of whom earned themselves an HTC Legend (winners gallery here). And many thanks also to everyone who has uploaded their native Android apps over the last few ...