The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge, the agency's first open source challenge to spur innovation from new actors, on Monday. The Development 2.0 Challenge signals that USAID is responding to a shifting business and technology culture that goes by many names, including Web 2.0, inventive economics, wikinomics, or crowdsourcing. Just as online communities have changed the way business is done, USAID's open call for technology solutions seeks to improve the way international development is done.
Through the Development 2.0 Challenge, USAID is opening up to inventive ideas. The Challenge seeks to tap non-traditional sources, such as students, budding entrepreneurs, and other innovators to explore the potential of mobile technology applications. USAID challenges innovators everywhere to apply an innovative mobile technology solution for maximum development reach and impact in areas such as health, banking, education, agricultural trade, or other pressing development issues.
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