Knight News Challenge Round 3

Knight News Challenge

The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas. The first round of 2013, which opens in February, will invite innovators from all disciplines to focus on tools for open government. In 2012, three challenge rounds, each focused on an emerging trend, drew more than 2,500 entries.

Challenge 1 - on NETWORKS: Winners were announced June 18.

Challenge 2 - on DATA: Winners were announced Sept. 20.

Challenge 3 – on MOBILE: Winners were announced Jan. 17.

Anyone, anywhere can apply for the challenge - whether for-profit start-ups or non-profit ventures. For more information on a variety of topics - from guidelines for for-profits, on intellectual property licensing, open source software and more - visit our FAQ.

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1. What is your project? [1 sentence]

A free App for citizens, to improve transparency in mobile service availability: a real-time App to get individual easy-to-read stats about real mobile service availability, now and through time.

2. How will your project use mobile tools and approaches? [2 sentences]

We will use to build an application Android mobile (version 2.2 or later), so that the majority of users to download, and to make it non-intrusively. Then add data visualization, and will model to make them easier to read on mobile.

3. Who will use it and why? [1 sentence]

Any citizen with a smartphone. Mobile networks are saturated, people can’t complain, service providers speaks in technical terms. Easy-to-read info is needed for people can compare and asks for their rights.

4. Please list three ways they would learn about your project.

We’ll have a website to inform and download (standard and mobile version), put the app in Android App Market, and will do a public launching through social media (Twitter Facebook), to get users and expand the word of mouth.

5. What connections have you made, or will you make, with others [communities, organizations or networks] about your project? [2 sentences]

We had connections with the Computer Department of Universidad de Chile and The Telecommunications Department of the Chilean Government.

6. What part of the project have you already built? [1-2 sentences, feel free to include links]

We have an Alpha prototype: a basic app for Android, to start getting stats from the users. The Beta version has to be developed after we have some data, and the Test version should have visualization for this data.

7. What does success for your project look like? [1-2 sentences]

We’ll success when mobile service providers have to unify QoS criteria giving more transparency in “availability service” terms for the users.

8. What resources do you need to succeed? [1-2 sentences]

App Developer, Web Developer, Data Engineer, Web Designer, Information Architect, and Mobile phones to test.

Additional details:
Please list who is on your team: Gabriel Hourton, Gabriel del Canto, Gonzalo Muñoz, Carlos Meneses, Carolina Sandoval.

Expected number of months to complete project: 6 months

Estimated Project Cost:USD53,000.-

Name:Gabriel Hourton

Twitter:@GabrielHourtonB

Email address: gabriel@niclabs.cl

Organization [if applicable]: NicLabs

City: Santiago

Country: Chile

How did you learn about the contest? Through Poderopedia Leader (Knight foundation 2011 winner) Miguel Paz.