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SHIFT TECH TO AWARD $25K TO DEVELOP MOBILE APP IN ARMENIA
Virtual Strategy
Oct 16 2013
PR.com Wednesday, October 16th 2013.
Yerevan, Armenia, October 16, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Non-profit organization
ONEArmenia is shifting the landscape of Armenia once again. SHIFT:
Culture, launched in the spring, invited the global community at large
to pitch their wildest idea for reinventing an aspect of the Armenian
arts. On their 1-year anniversary they've launched SHIFT::Tech, a
call for people around the world to submit their mobile app ideas --
and compete to get $25,000 in support to develop them.
Armenia has become one of the leading information technology nations
among CIS and Middle Eastern countries. A number of high-tech
companies from Europe, Russia, and the U.S. are also operating large
development and R&D centers in Armenia. With a booming IT sector,
which takes up a corruption-free 20% of the country's annual GDP,
start-ups are popping up all over the country. The world's premier,
full-featured mobile photo editor, Picsart, Inc., for example, was
founded there and has over 77 million users.
The top five submissions will be invited to pitch their idea to
a world-class jury that includes Alexis Ohanian, Matthew Brimer,
Raffi Krikorian, Rameet Chawla, and others.
The winner will be connected with Social Objects, a mobile app
development company in Yerevan, to turn the idea into a living,
breathing software masterpiece. In addition to having a world-class
development team build their app, part of the $25,000 in-kind
grant will go to marketing and taking the app to market. Portions
of potential profits from the winning app will go toward funding
ONEArmenia community projects.
"SHIFT::Tech offers enough support for a start-up team to focus
fully and realise their app idea and build a functioning, viable
product for a big global marketplace," said Nigel Sharp, founder
of LionSharp Solutions--a creative technology start-up. "Awareness
of the technology possibilities will improve and hopefully inspire
more people to look towards the engineering and mobile development
capabilities in Armenia."
Learn more and apply at onearmenia.org/shift
ONEArmenia is a non-profit that boosts environmental, humanitarian and
cultural projects in Armenia. We use crowd-funding and crowd-sourcing
to involve anyone with an Internet connection in boosting projects that
are geared toward making tangible changes in Armenia. The ONEArmenia
network makes it possible to not only raise money for a project based
in Armenia as a worldwide community, but to also track the progress
of said project with complete access to financial information.
Contact Information: ONEArmenia David Bequette +37498471362 Contact
via Email www.onearmenia.org
Click here to read the full story:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/521677
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2013/10/16/shifttech-award-25k-develop-mobile-app-armenia
From: A. Papazian
Virtual Strategy
Oct 16 2013
PR.com Wednesday, October 16th 2013.
Yerevan, Armenia, October 16, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Non-profit organization
ONEArmenia is shifting the landscape of Armenia once again. SHIFT:
Culture, launched in the spring, invited the global community at large
to pitch their wildest idea for reinventing an aspect of the Armenian
arts. On their 1-year anniversary they've launched SHIFT::Tech, a
call for people around the world to submit their mobile app ideas --
and compete to get $25,000 in support to develop them.
Armenia has become one of the leading information technology nations
among CIS and Middle Eastern countries. A number of high-tech
companies from Europe, Russia, and the U.S. are also operating large
development and R&D centers in Armenia. With a booming IT sector,
which takes up a corruption-free 20% of the country's annual GDP,
start-ups are popping up all over the country. The world's premier,
full-featured mobile photo editor, Picsart, Inc., for example, was
founded there and has over 77 million users.
The top five submissions will be invited to pitch their idea to
a world-class jury that includes Alexis Ohanian, Matthew Brimer,
Raffi Krikorian, Rameet Chawla, and others.
The winner will be connected with Social Objects, a mobile app
development company in Yerevan, to turn the idea into a living,
breathing software masterpiece. In addition to having a world-class
development team build their app, part of the $25,000 in-kind
grant will go to marketing and taking the app to market. Portions
of potential profits from the winning app will go toward funding
ONEArmenia community projects.
"SHIFT::Tech offers enough support for a start-up team to focus
fully and realise their app idea and build a functioning, viable
product for a big global marketplace," said Nigel Sharp, founder
of LionSharp Solutions--a creative technology start-up. "Awareness
of the technology possibilities will improve and hopefully inspire
more people to look towards the engineering and mobile development
capabilities in Armenia."
Learn more and apply at onearmenia.org/shift
ONEArmenia is a non-profit that boosts environmental, humanitarian and
cultural projects in Armenia. We use crowd-funding and crowd-sourcing
to involve anyone with an Internet connection in boosting projects that
are geared toward making tangible changes in Armenia. The ONEArmenia
network makes it possible to not only raise money for a project based
in Armenia as a worldwide community, but to also track the progress
of said project with complete access to financial information.
Contact Information: ONEArmenia David Bequette +37498471362 Contact
via Email www.onearmenia.org
Click here to read the full story:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/521677
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2013/10/16/shifttech-award-25k-develop-mobile-app-armenia
From: A. Papazian