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$100,000 Grant for Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Solutions for Childhood Vaccinations

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Maybe you can apply for this grant.

 

Gates Foundation is currently accepting proposals for Round 7 of Grand Challenges Explorations until May 19, 2011 on the following topics, the first two of which are new:


* Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children
* Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Innovative Ways to Accelerate, Sustain, and Monitor Eradication
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Solutions for Improved Uptake and Coverage of Childhood Vaccinations

 

Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects  showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.

 

Full descriptions of the topics and application instructions are available at: www.grandchallenges.org/gce.


To view a video featuring past grant winners and their projects, click here

 

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, apply. If you know someone else who may have a great idea, please forward this message.

 

Thank you for your commitment to solving the world’s greatest health challenges.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people – especially those with the fewest resources – have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

Android Market and Apple App Store Respectively 134,342 and 121,845 free applications – Distimo Report

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Distimo monthly publication is out and “The Google Android Market eclipsed the Apple App Store for iPhone in terms of free applications and now has 134,342 free applications, while the Apple App Store iPhone has 121,845 free applications”.  The publication covers the Apple App Store for iPad, Apple App Store for iPhone, Apple Mac App Store, BlackBerry App World (worldwide store), GetJar, Google Android Market,  Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in the United States.

 

Other major findings are:

 

•  If all application stores maintain their current growth pace, approximately five months from now Google Android Market will be the largest store in terms of number of applications followed by the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad, Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, BlackBerry App World and Nokia Ovi Store. The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace will also be larger than the Nokia Ovi Store and BlackBerry App World prior to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace being available for even a full year.
• One year after launching the iPad, Apple will be confronted with its first serious competition as both BlackBerry and Google enter the emerging tablet market. Apple has already seized momentum and grown the App Store for iPad in the first year to 75,755 applications developed by 21,975 publishers. Daily downloads in the Top  100 Overall paid and free applications for iPad combined exceed 500,000, while the daily revenue in the Top 100 paid is approximately $400,000 excluding in-app purchases.

 

• Many of the top publishers on the iPad already publish cross-platform. Fifty-eight percent of the 50 most popular publishers have already developed applications for non-Apple platforms.

Banks Should Fund Software Development Startup Funds – A Mandate From Government Needed

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At the Main Auditorium, University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka, Lagos, the National President, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Prof. Charles Onuwa Uwadia delivered an inaugural lecture as a professor of computer sciences of UNILAG. He spoke on the usefulness of software to economic revival.

 

The title of his talk was  ‘Software Systems: The Driving Force Behind the e-Revolution’ and he made a case that software could be fundamental in designing the nation.

 

Prof. Uwadia used the chance to call, for instance, on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and commercial banks in the country to set aside a special fund to assist start-up businesses, mostly in the area of software development.

 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announces 88 Grants Awards for Global Health

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 88 grants to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health. The grants of  US$100,000 each will be made to researchers from 25 countries. This marks the sixth round of funding from Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help lower the barriers for testing innovative ideas in global health.


Projects selected for funding focused on polio eradication and vaccines, cell-phone applications for global health, new approaches to cure HIV, sanitation technologies, and new ideas to improve the health of mothers and newborns.

 

Winners were selected from more than 2,500 proposals and approximately 100 countries. They represent a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, including health researchers, computer and electronic engineers, and entrepreneurs.

 

“One bold idea is all it takes to catalyze new approaches to global health and development,” said Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  “Despite the progress in global health and development, we vitally need creative ideas to discover and deliver life-saving vaccines, eradicate the next disease or slow the spread of preventable diseases.”

 

Glo Infinito Tarriff Plan – What You Need To Know!

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?The new Glo Infinito  tarriff plan offers call rates of 25 kobo per second to all networks starting from the very first second. SMS to any network in Nigeria at a flat rate of N8 each

 

•    It is available in two options:

 

1.   Select a special number (Glo) that you will be calling at a rate of 2 kobo per second OR
2.   Select 5 special numbers (Glo) that you will be calling at the rate of 18 kobo per second.
Both are with no Monthly, Weekly or Daily Rentals unlike the likes of Etisalat, MTN and Zain that charge daily access fees from N10 upwards.

 

HOW TO MIGRATE TO THE NEW GLO INFINITO PLAN
1.   1 Special number PLAN
•   Dial *100*9*1#
2.   5 Special numbers PLAN
•   Dial *100*9*2#
HOW TO REGISTER A SPECIAL NUMBER
Dial *101*1*Mobile Number#
HOW TO MODIFY A REGISTERED SPECIAL NUMBER
Pls. note! (When you change, N100 will be charged)
Dial *101*2*Old Special Number*New Special Number#
HOW TO DELETE REGISTERED SPECIAL NUMBERS
Dial *101*3*Mobile Number#

 

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