The Apps4Africa: Climate Challenge ran from August 2011 to March 31st 2012 and is now closed. Stay tuned for our next competition!

MENTORING CHALLENGERS

To register as a mentor simply fill out this form but we highly recommend reading all of the following, first.

The 2011 climate challenge will center around several strategic themes that coincide with policy devisions that will be debated and decided upon by world leaders at the COP17 conference in Durban, South Africa. The benefit of doing this is that it increases the chance that competition participants will find very eager decision makers eager to try, recommend, and otherwise support their applications. The goal is to ensure that African innovators can contribute their ideas to the discussion that their own and other leaders will partake in at COP17.

Perhaps more importantly than that, however, the Apps4Africa contest is being organized to reward the African innovators (young and old) who see their daily challenges as an opportunity to create.

WHAT IS A MENTOR?

Mentors are people who do not live in Africa but who wish to get involved by lending their expertise to applicants. You might be an engineer at a big software company, a program officer at an NGO, a PHD student or anyone who feels they would like to support the applicants. The only rule is that you lend a generous amount of your expertise to a team what might have a need for your skills. Mentors and the teams they select will determine what level of help is needed and both the mentor or the team reserve the right to part ways at any time, for any reason.

We do not expect mentors to do the work *for* the applicant(s), but rather guide, support and offer answers where needed. Upon registering as a mentor, we will contact you with information on how to select a team.

CONTEST DATES

West/Central Africa (Begins Oct 1, 2011 - Ends Nov 30, 2011)
Eastern Africa (Begins Oct 20, 2011 - Ends Dec 20, 2011)
Southern Africa (Begins Feb 1, 2012 - Ends Mar 30, 2012)

CATEGORIES FOR ENTRANTS

Entry Categories
Agriculture (Distribution)
Early Warning and/or Disaster Preparedness
Resource Management
Forestry/Deforestation
Transportation/Traffic/Emissions
Food Security
Livestock
Health and Sanitation

Application Types
Mobile
Mobile (smart phones)
Web
Desktop

Data
Open Data Source
Crowdsourcing/Public Participation
News Aggregation
Proprietary
Other