Mobile Developers Aim to Change the World
Netbooks, iPhones, Android mobile devices. Personal computing around the world is converging into the hand held device and the combination of price point, sophistication and network effect could help deliver more of what many early supporters of the internet were aiming for - democratization of media and technology.
What's it going to look like when mobile devices really change the world? A new effort to provide funding to mobile projects aimed at public good could give us a good look at the future. The nonprofit N2Y4 Mobile Challenge from Netsquared is accepting project submissions from mobile developers through this month and will provide seed funding to a handful of lucky winners. The submissions so far are quite interesting.
Here's a sample of what projects have been submitted so far.
Think about the billions of people around the world whose lives could be touched by apps like this. There are 4 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. There are only 175 million active Facebook users. The iPhone has a fraction of the users that mobile in general has or that Facebook has, but it's got all kinds of apps. What kind? Apple approved 14 iPhone fart apps in one day recently and I know, mobile world, that aint the best you've got.
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