The First International Open Ubiquitous City Challenge – Call for Proposals

The 1st International Open Ubiquitous City Challenge (“UBI Challenge”) challenges the global R&D community to design, implement, deploy end evaluate novel applications and services in real-world setting in the City of Oulu, Finland.

Finalists get financial support up to 10000 € and MUM 2011 paper (subject to standard peer review).

The goal of the UBI Challenge is to:

The 1st International Open Ubiquitous City Challenge (“UBI Challenge”) challenges the global R&D community to design, implement, deploy end evaluate novel applications and services in real-world setting in the City of Oulu, Finland.

Finalists get financial support up to 10000 € and MUM 2011 paper (subject to standard peer review).

The goal of the UBI Challenge is to:

• Stimulate global research collaboration on urban informatics in a very concrete manner.
• Provide the international R&D community with an opportunity to transfer ideas from labs into real-world urban environment.
• Make the open urban computing testbed in Oulu available to the international R&D community.
• Support developing metrics for evaluating urban computing infrastructure and applications in real-world setting.

UBI Challenge TIMELINE and STAGES:

1. Submission of written proposal (Nov 30, 2010, 23:59:59 UTC)

2. Selection of finalists (Dec 2010)

3. Finalists deploy their applications in Oulu (June 2011)

4. Collection of empirical evidence (Jul-Aug 2011)

5. Reporting (Sep 2011)

6. Jury nominates award recipients (Oct 2011)

7. Presentation of finalists and awards at MUM 2011 (Nov-Dec 2011)

Ubi Challenge Call for Proposals closes 30^th of November 2010.

More information on UBI Challenge-website.