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You’re invited to join us as we announce the winners of the 2012 Ericsson Application Awards. The prize ceremony will be broadcast online on Tuesday, May 22nd from 11:00am until 1:00pm CET at Ericsson Studio in Stockholm, Sweden.
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To watch the webcast, click here.
This is one event you don’t want to miss!
After a month of rigorous evaluation by our network of end-users from Africa, China and Europe, we have narrowed the competition to 4 finalist teams.
Congratulations go out to the following finalist teams:
[click the links to watch the submission videos]
In the student category:
In the company category:
These four finalist teams will now be invited to the Awards Ceremony at Ericsson Headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden on May 22nd.
The third place prize goes to:
The third place teams will receive their prize in the coming weeks.
Again, we’d like to thank all of you who participated in this year’s competition. It’s been a fantastic journey seeing so many exciting new ideas turned into innovative applications.
So what’s next? We will be broadcasting the awards ceremony on May 22nd at 11am CET when the 2012 Ericsson Application Awards winners will be announced live from Ericsson Studio in Stockholm, Sweden, so be on the look out for more details about that.
While we are awaiting the announcement of the finalists, we thought we’d share with you some details about where the submissions came from.
The semi-finalist apps that we announced last week have been forwarded to our global network of around 600 end-users from Africa, China and Europe. From their feedback, three top teams from each category (company/student) will be determined. We expect to announce those teams on April 25th.
We have been very impressed with the contributions we have received. It’s fantastic to see so many innovative ideas turned into great applications.
It has been a difficult task to identify a set of semi-finalists, but here they are (in no particular order):
The first phase of the evaluation process is almost done! But with so many new and interesting contributions, the jury have asked for more time to complete the process.
The winners for the Apps for Africa competition have been decided. It was a tough competition, but the jury came to a final decision.
The jury has been hard at work evaluating the apps we’ve received for the Vasaloppet Challenge. The evaluation criteria were based upon the following criteria:
The main competition is now closed for submission. After many hours of hard work, you can now breathe a sigh of relief!
Now the first phase of the evaluation process will begin. In this phase, the jury will select the top 10 semi-finalist which will be announced on March 16th.
Keep an eye out for more details.