MMMLife Case Competition

Registration to Case Competition is now over. The winner will be announced on this page. Good luck to all participants!

MMMLife Case Competition is part of mobile solutions development project MyMobileMyLife, which culminates August 26th – 27th 2010 when the first MMMlLife Summer Workshop-Festival is organized. The theme of this years event is MOBILE SOLUTIONS: WELLBEING and WELLFARE for ALL.

Competition is open for everybody. All participants are welcomed to take part in the MMMLife Workshop & Festival, where they will have the possibility to present their case in workshop.

Topics: mLearning, mHealth, mBanking or m?

Rules. You can take part with a group or as an individual. You will choose one topic and produce a “solution” from cases described below. Only case solutions that are submitted in time and that fulfil the requirements will be evaluated.  One group can take part with one case solution. MKFC Stockholm College and Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences reserve all rights of the case solutions.

Registration to case competition is open 24^th of May – 30^th of June. Registration form can be found at the end of this page.

NOTE: Time Extended. Competition time:  24^th of May – 6^th of August

mLearning. Come up with a plan how to provide education for app. 100 people living in remote location with mobile technology. There is one landline Internet connection at the location. Nearly everyone at the location has a simple mobile phone and there are good mobile connections at the location. You have 2000 euro at your disposal to provide a lasting solution to provide for people at the location. You can alternatively choose a real remote location and come up with similar plan (2000 euro limit) to provide education with the help of mobile devices.

mHealth. Come up with a plan how to provide health services for people living in remote locations with mobile devices or with the help of mobile devices. You should also consider ways how to raise awareness of health issues such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, diarrheal, warnings about dangerous areas, spreading of diseases etc. can be shared with mobile devices. Also consider, what sort of health services might be needed in remote locations and can these needs be met with mHealth. You can take a real life, existing example of mHealth from a location of your choice, analyze it and build your suggestion upon it.

mBanking. Choose a remote location/s where mBanking is used. Find out reasons why mBanking is used, what needs the people have for mBanking and are they met and what services are currently being provided. You can take a real life and existing example of mBanking some where from the world, analyze it and build your suggestion upon it or you can choose more locations and compare them. Come up with proposal where you benchmark solutions, analyze the current needs at location/s you’ve chosen, provide a solution how these needs could be better met and provide rationale why your solution is transferable to other locations.

m? Alternatively you can suggest as case of your own. Send your suggestion, to ville[at]mkf.se. The suggestion must include a relevant problem within the use of mobile devices, and a hands-on case that the solutions produced will address.  Your suggestion for case will be evaluated by the organizers, and if it’s accepted as a case, it will be published at the event website, so that others can also provide solutions for the case.

The case solution must include:

• Paper (max 10 pp.) and presentation  or video or website
• Case must be presented also in NING, in the group with same topic
• The groups must also participate weekly in the NING-group of their topic
• ”Hands on” approach with suggestions that are usable in real life
• Creative approach in all the materials produced

The case solutions can include:

• Analysis of existing practices
• Group’s own experiences form their local region
• Development / Combination of existing practices

In all cases the following aspects should be taken into consideration:

• What devices and technologies are most appropriate
• Applications and service providers that will be used
• Transferability of the solutions to different locations
• Energy consumption
• Different age groups

Submission of case solutions.

By email to ville[at]mkfc.se (videos: preferably a link to Youtube or equivalent)

Evaluation

After the competition has ended a case competition committee will evaluate  the solutions, the materials used to present the solution and groups’ contribution in MMMLife-NING. The winning group will be contacted latest 11^th of August and information about the winner and winning solution will be published at this site.

Prize

1. One 1000 EUR voucher/ gift card to mobile devices supplier of winners choice
2. MMMLife Workshop – Festival & dinner party free of charge
3. The winning group will get to present their solution in the summer event as one of the main speakers.

If no one of the winning group is able to take part in the MMMLife Event, it’s alternatively possible to make a video that will be presented at the event. Take this into consideration while preparing the case solution material.