GP, Mozilla and MCC launch app competition

Syed Talat Kamal, head of public relations at Grameenphone, and Zaki Haider, deputy director of MCC, attend the launch of the Firefox app challenge, a competition on application development, at a press meet in Dhaka yesterday. Photo: GP

Grameenphone and Mozilla along in association with Multimedia Content and Communications (MCC) have launched an application-building competition.

Dubbed the Firefox App Challenge, the contest is open until December 4 to all Firefox operating system based applications, Grameenphone said in a statement yesterday.

Participants can submit applications under five categories: public or social services; entertainment; games; news and media; and tools and utility.

A total of $27,500 will be handed out as prize money to the winners, Mozilla said on its website. Two prizes will be given under each category, with $3,000 for the first prize winners and $1,500 for the runners-up, it said.

The best app developer of the competition will get to visit Mozilla headquarters in the US. Additionally, there will be five prizes of $1,000 for developers who show outstanding innovation or value, regardless of category, it said.

Information on participation procedure is available on Mozilla's webpage for the competition, www.firefoxappchallenge.com.