Dear Friends, We are sharing this information so that you could circulate to your networks for the benefit of our youth. We would also appreciate receiving contacts that you think would find this of benefit to them so that we could reach out to them. Thank you, Alice Begin forwarded message: From: Zürcher, Robin <robin.zurcher@itu.int> Date: October 1, 2014 at 10:07:04 AM GMT-4 To: "sg@atu-uat.org" <sg@atu-uat.org> Cc: "absoumaila@yahoo.fr" <absoumaila@yahoo.fr> Subject: Young Innovators Competition Challenge 4 To the attention of Mr Abdoulkarim SOUMAILA As part of the ITU, the UN agency responsible for ICT-related issues, ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition launched the 4th and last challenge of this year. Given your work with the ATU - African Telecommunications Union we kindly ask for your support in promoting the competition in your network in order to give the opportunity to participate to as many young people as possible. Please kindly pass the information to the relevant national administrations in order to spread the word among university students and other young bright minds in your country who might be interested in applying. This challenge is in partnership with the IEEE IoT Initiative and we are looking for the best ideas for new businesses and innovations on how the Internet of Things can be used for social good. We will be accepting ideas until November 03, 2014. The competition is open to 18-30 year-old young people from across ITU’s 193 member states. The winners are invited to the ITU Telecom World 2014 in Doha in December this year where they can showcase their innovative ideas and will enjoy mentoring and workshops on entrepreneurial skills. Prize money of up to USD 5,000 in the form of seed funding will be awarded to implement and bring to scale winning start-ups. Participants should go to https://ideas.itu.int to get more information and apply. Please feel free to distribute the flyer which you can find in the attachment. Please find more information in the Press Release in the six official UN languages, English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese. You can also learn more about the competition at http://telecomworld.itu.int/take-part/innovate/. For any further material or assistance, please email us at young.innovators@itu.int. Best regards, Robin Zuercher Young Innovators Competition Team --Forwarded Message Attachment--