Is your app a winner? Enter the Ericsson Application Awards 2013!

• Developers, startups and anyone who has an idea for a great app, here is your opportunity
• This year there will be a global competition and several regional competitions
• First prize is EUR 25,000, second prize is EUR 10,000 and third prize is EUR 5,000

The Ericsson Application Awards give you and your team the opportunity to gain a foothold in the app industry while also earning recognition and making contacts within the telecom industry.

"We hope to see some of our local talents send in their entries for the Ericsson Application Awards 2013," said Steven Tai, Vice President of Marketing, Ericsson Malaysia & Sri Lanka. "Not only are the prizes substantially rewarding, but the exposure it garners would really help local developers and programming students penetrate beyond Malaysian shores into the international arena as well. It would be an excellent opportunity to showcase what our Malaysian app developers can do and to expand their expertise globally.
We are proud to have a Malaysian team that made it into the semi-finals in the company category last year, alongside entries from Sweden, Israel and the UK, and we believe we can do even better this year!"
This year there will be two categories; one for students and one for small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 100 employees. The theme for this year’s competition is “Apps for City Life”, in support of Ericsson’s vision for a Networked Society in which – through a combination of mobility, broadband, the cloud, applications and services – anything and everything is connected.

Teams need to develop an application based on the Android platform that addresses the theme. Last year’s winner in the company category was a mobile health-care app developed in Kenya. First prize in the student category, meanwhile, was awarded to a painting and chatting app developed in China. Finally, a medico-social platform that provides access to medical information developed in Egypt won the Technology for Good prize. In all, 143 teams from more than 50 countries took part and a total of 242 ideas, videos and apps were submitted – twice as many as in the previous year.

This year, several prizes will be awarded in each category:
• First place: EUR 25,000
• Second place: EUR 10,000
• Third place: EUR 5000
• Fourth and fifth place: certificates

For more information visit the Ericsson Application Awards 2013 website. www.ericssonapplicationawards.com