Activity File
Mobile in South Asia
Regional Activities
Summary
As part of the Creating Sustainable Businesses in the Knowledge Economy program and to encourage innovation and competitiveness among SMEs, Finland, Nokia, and infoDev have placed a special importance on developing mobile activities.
Background
Mobile Applications and mLabs
mLab South Asia
The PSEB consortium is collaborating to host the mLab South Asia. The consortium partners include Pakistan Software Export Board, Indus Valley Schools of Arts and Architecture, National College of Arts, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, and MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan.
Physical location: Pakistan: Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad
Mobile Social Networking
infoDev has awarded one grant for Mobile Social Networking in South Asia. The award will be for US $35,000 and will be awarded as follows:
Nepal: Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd. will support preexisting or establish new social networking hubs and complementary online communication channels to foster collaboration among developers, entrepreneurs, mentors, partners, investors and other technologists working in the mobile field. In addition, the mobile social networking hub will provide vital support for the creation of content for a mobile applications community of practice, along with other mentoring and concept incubation activities.
For more information, please see the original announcement: infoDev Awards Six Mobile Social Networking Grants in Africa and Asia.