Ericsson has announced the winners of the 2012 Ericsson Application Awards. This is the third consecutive year that the awards have been held. This year’s theme, in cooperation with Sony Mobile, was the Networked Society. Students and small- and medium-sized enterprises were invited to submit Android applications that had been built using at least one Ericsson Labs API.
Four finalist teams from China, Egypt and Kenya showcased their apps before an expert jury that later declared a winner in each of the two categories: students and companies. Each winning team received EUR 15,000 and the runners up EUR 10,000.
Jan Färjh, Head, Ericsson Research and host of the awards, said, "Med Africa and Clio Super Painter are two excellent examples of applications in the Networked Society. We are very proud of highlighting the team’s achievements. We want to encourage open innovation and attract developers, and get in contact with them. We want their feedback on our APIs and what is needed to get developers to use the functionality in our systems. And to get this going, we decided to start an application competition."
At the awards ceremony, Ericsson also announced that team Nabda Care from Egypt had won the special Technology for Good prize for their Health Book application.
