Topics: mLearning, mHealth or mBanking

Rules

Competition is open for everybody. You take part with a group or as an individual. You will choose one topic and produce a “solution” from cases described below. Only case solutions that are submitted in time and that fulfil the requirements will be evaluated. One group can take part with one case solution. MKFC Stockholm College and Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences reserve all rights of the case solutions.

All participants are welcomed to take part in the MMMLife Workshop & Festival, where they will have the possibility to present their case in workshop.

Registration to case competition is open 24th of May – 30th of June at http://tinyurl.com/MMMLifeCASE

Competition Time: 24th of May – 23rd of July

mLearning. Come up with a plan how to provide education for app. 100 people living in remote location with mobile technology. There is one landline Internet connection at the location. Nearly everyone at the location has a simple mobile phone and there are good mobile connections at the location. You have 2000 euro at your disposal to provide a lasting solution to provide for people at the location. You can alternatively choose a real remote location and come up with similar plan (2000 euro limit) to provide education with the help of mobile devices.

mHealth. Come up with a plan how to provide health services for people living in remote locations with mobile devices or with the help of mobile devices. You should also consider ways how to raise awareness of health issues such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, diarrheal, warnings about dangerous areas, spreading of diseases etc. can be shared with mobile devices. Also consider, what sort of health services might be needed in remote locations and can these needs be met with mHealth. You can take a real life, existing example of mHealth from a location of your choice, analyze it and build your suggestion upon it.

mBanking. Choose a remote location/s where mBanking is used. Find out reasons why mBanking is used, what needs the people have for mBanking and are they met and what services are currently being provided. You can take a real life and existing example of mBanking some where from the world, analyze it and build your suggestion upon it or you can choose more locations and compare them. Come up with proposal where you benchmark solutions, analyze the current needs at location/s you’ve chosen, provide a solution how these needs could be better met and provide rationale why your solution is transferable to other locations.

Alternatively you can suggest as case of your own. Send your suggestion, to ville@mkfc.se. The suggestion must include a relevant problem within the use of mobile devices, and a hands-on case that the solutions produced will address. Your suggestion for case will be evaluated by the organizers, and if itʼs accepted as a case, it will be published at the event website, so that others can also provide solutions for the case.

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Alternatively you can suggest as case of your own. Send your suggestion, to ville(@)mkfc.se. The suggestion must include a relevant problem within the use of mobile devices, and a hands-on case that the solutions produced will address. Your suggestion for case will be evaluated by the organizers, and if itʼs accepted as a case, it will be published at the event website, so that others can also provide solutions for the case.

The case solution must include:

- Paper (max 10 pp.) and presentation or video or website
- Case must be presented also in NING, in the group with same topic
- The groups must also participate weekly in the NING-group of their topic, for example by posting some insights of their case solution, interesting developments within the case topic or some other contribution to
- “Hands on” approach with suggestions that are usable in real life
- Creative approach in all the materials produced

The case solutions can include:

- Analysis of existing practices
- Group’s own experiences form their local region
- Development / Combination of existing practice

In all cases the following aspects should be taken into consideration:

- What devices and technologies are most appropriate
- Applications that will be used
- Which Service providers will be used
- Transferability of the solutions to different locations
- Energy consumption
- Different age groups

Submission of case solutions.

By email to ville(at)mkfc.se (videos: preferably a link to Youtube or equivalent. )

Evaluation

After the competition has ended a case competition committee will evaluate the solutions, the materials used to present the solution and groups’ contribution in MMMLife-NING. The winning group will be contacted latest 5th of August and information about the winner and winning solution will be published at http://mymobilemylife.org/?page_id=125

Prize

- One 1000 EUR voucher/ gift card to mobile devices supplier of winners choice
- MMMLife Workshop – Festival & dinner party free of charge
- The winning group will get to present their solution in the summer event as one of the main speakers.

- If no one of the winning group is able to take part in the MMMLife Event, it’s alternatively possible to make a video that will be presented at the event. Take this into consideration while preparing the case solution materials

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MKFC Stockholm College and Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences call for everyone interested in developing new mobile solutions to join in online collaboration to innovate and develop new approaches and solution to the use of mobile technology in MLearning, MHealth and MBanking.

The Nordic countries as knowledge nations have the responsibility to enhance democracy and human rights. Today this is made possible with the extended use of information technology and especially citizens using social media. This creates the main pillars for a sustainable society, promoting growth, welfare and peace. New social media extends the capacity of lonely humans to communicate.

Social media is extended to the global communities all around the world with rapidly growing rate of mobile phones. Mobile phones provide people in remote locations and in developing countries the possibility to gain access to greatest equalizing tool ever invented: the Internet. Through online communities we can explore, share, create awareness and participate to realize our dreams and common causes. The social media can make communication and the flow of information transparent and include all kind of actors working for the same causes.

Read more at our mobile for development sites
http://mymobilemylife.org Website/
http://mmmlife.ning.com Community/

Read the report on how to use mobile learning and other services in developing countries

Post a comment or e-mail alamdar(at)mkfc.se if you are interested in develop new mobile solutions.