Train for Emerging Mkts Challenge
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Train to imagine the possibilities in the Emerging Markets Challenge, one of the categories in the Calling All Innovators competition. Get involved in defining and creating services for the Next Billion mobile users.
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First, think big.
What can you create that will improve the lives of millions? Maybe something as simple as an application that allows them to connect with their community radio station, in their local language, even if there are hundreds of local languages to implement.
Next, think impact
It does not require the smartest of smartphones to make a big impact. In fact, your application or service will reach more people if it requires less capability from the device and the network.
Here is a code snippet that shows how to use SMS as a data bearer when the user has no data connection available.
And only then think technology
If you are just getting started, teach yourself Java here (or another development framework here), and find resources including webinars, developer libraries and code camps in your area here.
26 Sep
2009
This article id targeted for those developers who wants to make innovative application for Emerging Markets. The Step by Step explanation is enough to understand what is emerging markets and what kind of applications developers can make. Explanations such as connecting people speaking different languages,living in different cultures.
Prime source of such Radio Application is given in this article to provide clear ideas on this subject and this is the most important part of this article. Source code given is up to the mark and contains no errors and code lines.