INCA (Innovative and Creative Applications) is back for a second edition!

INCA (Innovative and Creative Applications) is back for a second edition!

A new edition. All over Europe. A bigger challenge…

Are you a creative mind ready for a challenge?
The INCA (Innovative and Creative Applications) Award is a European competition for developers, encouraging them to build applications that are cool and useful to society. The scope is unlimited: widgets, web services, APIs mashups, mobile or stand-alone apps.

The contest is open to anyone and there’s 25 000 euro of total prize money and a place in the spotlight for the best submissions.

Get ready!
Get your team ready and keep watching www.inca-award.eu or submit your e-mail address for early bird info!
Full guidelines to the INCA competition will be published on www.inca-award.eu on October 1^st, 2010. Get ready, but don’t start developing yet, because the INCA10 edition will have a whole new set of rules.

How to participate?

You can start developing on October 1^st, 2010 when the guidelines will be revealed. There will only be a limited time to send in your submission.
An external European jury will select the top 10 projects. The winner will receive the INCA Award at the iMinds conference (December16th, 2010 in Ghent , Belgium - www.iminds.be).

Spread the message!

We look forward to your participation in INCA and hope you help us spread the message!

Our website: http://www.inca-award.eu

Follow us on twitter : http://twitter.com/IncaAward (hashtag #INCA10)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Innovative-and-Creative-Applications/104994706224792

Contact us: inca@ibbt.be

INCA10 is a joint initiative of IBBT, Réseau LIEU (Belgium), MFG Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Digiteo (France), i2BC (Spain) and Uusi Tehdas/New Factory (Finland) and is sponsored by Vacature.

Why INCA?

Our collective, social and environmental problems of today need innovative and creative answers, which are unlikely to come from the government only. Now is the time to invest in innovation and human talent.

Following the example of Apps for democracy, INCA is looking for both local and international talent eager to take on the challenge of demonstrating that new forms of innovation are possible and do result in successes when put into practice. Let’s prove that we can take on this challenge!

About INCA09

The first edition of the INCA Award was held in Spring 2009 in Belgium. We received more than 40 applications. The winner of the INCA Award 2009 was Twoddler, a Fisher-Price activity board turned into a wireless hardware device enabling toddlers to tweet messages and parents to communicate with their children via internet. Twoddler received a lot of media coverage the internet (Wired, Mashable, Engagdet, …) and was featured on Fox news in the US.