It’s the last day to vote in the NetSquared’s N2Y4 Mobile Challenge! Please consider voting for NiJeL’s two projects, HarassMap and FloodSMS!

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NetSquared recently announced their 2009 N2Y4 Mobile Challenge – an opportunity to develop and collaborate on Projects using mobile technology for social change, which solicited innovative project proposals using mobile technologies to impact people in the developing world. At NiJeL, we decided to submit not one, but TWO project proposals, and now we’re asking for your help.

The Challenge received 112 project proposals and now it’s your turn to vote on them. Voting is only open for a week beginning Monday, April 6 at 9:00am Pacific Time (U.S.) through Friday, April 10 at 3:00pm Pacific Time, and the top 14 vote-getting projects will be invited to participate in the N2Y4 Conference. You must vote for at least three projects, but no more than five.

We’re asking you today to log on to the 2009 N2Y4 Mobile Challenge project gallery and vote for both of NiJeL’s projects and also a project from our friends at FrontlineSMS:Medic.

The two NiJeL projects are:

• HarassMap – Reporting and Mapping Sexual Harassment on the Streets via SMS
  This project will implement a system for women in Egypt to report sexual harassment via SMS. This tool will act as an advocacy, prevention, and response tool, highlighting the severity and pervasiveness of the problem and alerting police to hotspots.
• FloodSMS – Early Detection and Warning of Catastrophic Flooding via SMS
  This project, a joint effort with ekgaon technologies, will create a flood early warning application, which will push SMS messages to people downstream of a flood event giving them up to 24 hours advanced warning. We intend to pilot this project in the Terai region of Nepal-India.

Our friends at FrontlineSMS:Medic also have a project worthy of your vote:

• FrontlineSMS:Medic – SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics
  FrontlineSMS:Medic is a team committed to empowering community health workers in the developing world using appropriate mobile technology. After almost a year of working with FrontlineSMS in Malawi, we are launching FrontlineSMS:Medic to extend the capabilities of this software and bring it to health centers across several continents.

There are a few simple rules to voting:

• If you don’t have a NetSquared account yet, register for one at: https://www.netsquared.org/user/register (please check your junk mail folder if you do not see a registration email confirmation)
• You can only vote for each project once
• Each registered user has one (1) ballot
• You must vote for at least three (3) projects and no more than five (5)
• All votes are weighted equally (in other words, your first choice and fifth choice have equal value)

Thank you so much for voting for our projects!