This year, we are dividing the Competition into a series of challenges to be launched between now and December. The first challenge, sponsored by Ooredoo, focuses on ‘Local Digital Content’.

Open to 18-30 year-old start-up founders from across ITU’s 193 member states, the competition is looking for the most promising tech start-ups that are inspiring the creation, aggregation or digitization of dynamic local content, particularly in non-Latin scripts. Entries can be submitted by start-ups that are involved in script content, resolving the technical challenges of digitizing non-Latin scripts through innovative technologies, or pinpointing fresh uses for older technologies, such as optical character recognition, voice recognition or translation software.

Two start-ups will be selected as winners of this challenge by a Selection Committee of experts and invited to attend ITU Telecom World 2014.

The deadline for initial submissions to the first challenge is 30 May 2014, 24:00 GMT +2.

You can find the full press release here, and we are attaching a flyer for the event. Potential participants should go to https://ideas.itu.int to get more information and apply.

Young Innovators Competition Team
Young.innovators@itu.int