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Design Challenge 2008

THE BACKGROUND

After the Mobile networks was introduced to Kerala (India) in 1997, the fisherman soon began investing in mobile phones which allowed them to call local markets while they were still at sea and determine where they would receive the best price for their catch. The improvements in information flow facilitated by mobile phones helped to raise the fisherman's profits by 8%, lower consumer prices by 4% and reduce the average 'catch wastage' from around 6.5% to almost zero.

The spread of mobile phones in India is growing rapidly and the number of subscribers had reached 261 million* at the end of March 2008. By 2010 India will have 250 million** people having mobiles with Internet capabilities & built-in cameras. 100 million** people can watch video on their phones. 200 million^ can listen to music and 200 million^ can have radio capability in their Mobile phones.

In the same time the challenge of food shortage is being faced across the globe. Considering this, the role of productive and planned agriculture will play a critical role in bringing food to our tables. Since India’s economy is driven by agriculture, the focus should be on empowering rural agricultural community – that is struggling to effectively grow, and sell financially viable produce despite the incessant demand.

Simply meeting the communication and entertainment needs will not mean much unless we answer the vital question, Is there a social responsibility while extending mobile connectivity throughout the world? We need to focus on how mobile phone can help the overall socio-economic development. There is also a need to focus on the kind of mobile user experience that must be delivered for these new consumers?

How can you harness the power of mobile telephony to enhance the livelihood and quality of life of the farming community of India?

Source:
* TRAI Press Release April 2008
** Economic Times
^ Economic Times

THEME

Design a Mobile Application to Empower the Farming Community of India!

Design an easy to use mobile application (Concept & the UI) that can help in the agriculture productivity and socio economic development of the rural population.

Design should take into consideration NOKIA S 40 series phone such as N6300.

PRIZES

Prizes as per the following will be awarded to the best three entries:

1st Prize: Rs. 40,000/-*
2nd Prize: Rs. 25,000/-*
3rd Prize: Rs. 15,000/-*

*Gadgets/Products of approx. value

The prizes will be awarded during the closing event of the USID 2008 which is planned from 4-6 September 2008. The details and schedule will be notified to all the winning teams through email/post. The Individual team can decide to collect the prizes themselves by attending the closing event of USID 2008 on their own expenses or can inform USID Foundation about their incapability to attend the closing event. In this case, USID Foundation will make some alternative arrangement of forwarding the prizes to the winning teams. By participating in the design challenge, you agree to be bound by the Official Rules, and the decisions of USID Foundation, which shall be final in all respects. All the entries shall receive participation certificates from the USID Foundation.

ELIGIBILITY

Students and Professionals from India

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration: July 31st, 2008

Submission Closed

For registration send email to usid_designchallenge@usidfoundation.org with your name and institution/organization.

ENTRY SUBMISSION PROVISION

The teams must submit all three deliverables in specifies formats. Incomplete entries will not be taken into consideration

DELIVERABLES

Design should take into consideration NOKIA S 40 Series Phone such as N6300

1. Design Concept Poster ( PDF A3 ), including the following

	Theme Title, Teams details, Institution / organization details
	The problem statement you have taken
	A concise description of the proposed solution
	Clear illustrations of key aspects of your proposed solution
	Compelling, effective visual design
	Acknowledgement of any assistance drawn from outside the student team (advisors, faculty, domain experts, existing solutions, users, etc.)

2. Design Solution Storyboard (PDF, PPS)

3. Interactive Prototype showing the concept ( Flash / HTML/JAVA ME Application)

The development environment being Java with a key focus on Nokia's Series 40 phones that constitutes of large portion of India 's rural handset market. For details about the Series 40 phone please click here.

For discussion, help, tips on user Interface/usability and other expert advice kindly use the Forum Nokia Technical Discussion Board, formed specifically to assist developers through leveraging the technical expertise available at Nokia.

HOW TO SUBMIT ONLINE

All three documents should be submitted as a single Zip file by 17 August, (6:00 PM GMT ) to email ID: usid_designchallenge@usidfoundation.org. The file must be not larger than 5Mb in size.

TEAM SIZE

Individual or upto 4 members in each team.

JURY AND SELECTION CRITERIA

The entries will be judged by a jury composed of members from NOKIA and eminent designers from industry & academia. The Jury will choose three winners who will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd ranks. Each entry will be judged based on the Creativity, Ingenuity, Innovation, Usability & User Experience and Feasibility of implementation.

Disclaimer: This competition shall not constitute a commitment or create a joint venture, partnership, agency or other media or business relationship between the participants and the organizers or judging companies of this competition. This competition shall not either be understood to grant to any participant whether expressly or by implication any ownership, rights or license to any intellectual property rights of any of the organizers, judging companies and vice versa. None of the Information which may be disclosed or exchanged by the parties shall constitute any representation, warranty, assurance, guarantee or other inducement by any party to any other of any kind, and, in particular, with respect to the infringement of any trade marks, patents, copyrights or any other intellectual property rights, or other rights of either party.

REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS

Regn. No.	Reg. Date	Name	Company
UIDC-P-0001	16th July	Shama Rasal	SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
UIDC-P-0002	17th July	Devendra Kumar Rane	Freelancer Designer
UIDC-P-0003	17th July	Sandeep Dev, Sayalee Sharangpani	Freelance Designer
UIDC-P-0004	17th July	Nitin Mehta	Mcafee Software, India
UIDC-S-0005	17th July	S.R Santhosh	Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore
UIDC-P-0006	17th July	Neha Srivastava Abhishek Upadhyay	Times Business Solutions
UIDC-P-0007	17th July	Ravindra Suthar	Nimoble
UIDC-P-0008	18th July	Susheel Kiran Javadi	Ziva Software, Bangalore
UIDC-S-0009	18th July	Pawan Kumar Mundhra	SMK Fomra Institute Of Technology, Anna University
UIDC-P-00010	18th July	Senthil Kumaar Manokar, Senthil Kumar Alagunambi, Daisy Gnana Deepa Ravindran, Arun Jyothis	HCL Technologies Ltd
UIDC-P-00011	18th July	Arvind Sagar.G	Capgemini
UIDC-P-00012	18th July	Dhayan Kumar, Suneel Posimreddy, Pranavdatta Natekar	Oracle Corporation
UIDC-P-00013	18th July	Dipu Chandran	Verizon Data Services India
UIDC-P-00014	18th July	Srinivasa Kumar Karri	Freelancer
UIDC-P-00015	18th July	Pravin S. Padale	D sign Design
UIDC-S-00016	19th July	Vrushali Chandrashekhar	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00017	19th July	Mahvash Afzal	Zakir Hussain College of Engg. & Tech., Aligarh Muslim University
UIDC-S-00018	20th July	Pratik Zaveri	Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology
UIDC-P-00019	20th July	Siddharth Gaikwad	Sasken Communication Technologies
UIDC-P-00020	20th July	M Srinivasa Rao	August Technologies
UIDC-P-00021	20th July	Mohd Anwar Jamal Faiz	Tata Consultancy services, New Delhi
UIDC-S-00022	21st July	Sameer Singhal, Ankit Kumar	Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
UIDC-P-00023	21st July	M.Mohamed Ameen	AOL India
UIDC-S-00024	21st July	Pankaj Nathani	Government Engineering College, Bhavnagar
UIDC-S-00025	21st July	Ankur Uttam, Arvind Sharma	IIM Bangalore
UIDC-P-00026	21st July	Kamaraj S, Kavitha Mailsamy	IBM India
UIDC-P-00027	22nd July	Srinivasan Kumarasamy	Oracle India
UIDC-S-00028	22nd July	Ankit Govil, Vishrut Shukla, Abhay B. Murarka	BITS-PILANI, GOA
UIDC-P-00029	22nd July	Santosh Ostwal	Ossian Agro Automation
UIDC-P-00030	22nd July	Sudeep Nayak, Shailender Misra	Allgo Embedded Systems
UIDC-P-00031	22nd July	Somya Bhatnagar, Rashmi Panwar	Infosys
UIDC-P-00032	22nd July	Vivek Beniwal	Pramati Technologies
UIDC-S-00033	22nd July	Shipra Roy, Yathindra L	NIFT, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00034	22nd July	Sarang Ganoo, Gaurav Kulkarni, Vrushali Kulkarni, Nikhil Autade	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00035	22nd July	Sumona Chakravarty, Avneesh Singh Narang	Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-P-00036	22nd July	Prathesh M, Sathis Kumar M.	Infosys, Bangalore
UIDC-P-00037	22nd July	Anshu N Jain	IBM India Research Lab
UIDC-S-00038	23rd July	Sathish M, Subash R, Anith Prakash	IIM, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00039	23rd July	Kunal Gupta, Nitin Chowdhary, Ragini Hariharan, Shayak Sen	IIM Bangalore
UIDC-P-00040	23rd July	Furzana PM, Kannan R, Vennila D, Meena S	HCL Technologies, Chennai
UIDC-P-00041	23rd July	Amar Khubani, Sarit Ghosh	Impetus Infotech
UIDC-S-00042	23rd July	R. Uday Kiran, Abhishek Pandey	IIIT Hyderabad
UIDC-P-00043	24th July	Janani Mani, Narmadha S	HCL Technologies, Chennai
UIDC-P-00044	24th July	Ankur Sardana, Nilesh Akode, Niteesh Elias, Parag Trivedi	Honeywell, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00045	24th July	Arunkumar Francis	IISc Bangalore
UIDC-P-00046	24th July	Neha Modgil	Techved Design
UIDC-P-00047	24th July	Deepa Masilamani, Janani Mani, Narmadha Sivakumar	HCL Technologies, Chennai
UIDC-P-00048	24th July	Chirag Solanki, Sagar Thackar, Kunal Asodaria	Igloo360
UIDC-S-00049	24th July	Kumari Sandhya	NID Bangalore
UIDC-P-00050	24th July	Dhayan Kumar, Suneel Posimreddy, Pranavdatta Natekar	Oracle Corporation
UIDC-S-00051	24th July	Vidhya Appu, Mrinalini Sardar, Smriti Mehrotra, Varshapriya Radhakrishnan	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-P-00052	24th July	Mayank Kumar	Adobe Systems, Noida
UIDC-S-00053	25th July	Smriti kataria, Anunag Jayanti, Nikhil Bhatia, Ankit Taparia	Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
UIDC-P-00054	25th July	Rajender Pasricha	Sasken Communication
UIDC-P-00055	25th July	Taufik Md. A Sayyed	Sasken Communication
UIDC-P-00056	25th July	Sathishkumar Kingsley, Santhosh.RB, R.Vijayarajan, P.Saravanamoorthy	Satyam Computers
UIDC-P-00057	25th July	Baranikumar.S, Avvinaash Mohan, Senthilnathan Duarivelu, Thualsiraman Sampath	Sasken Communication
UIDC-P-00058	25th July	Kumar Vishal	Sasken Communication
UIDC-S-00059	25th July	Eshita Priyadarshini	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00060	25th July	Shubham Sinha	Sasken Communication
UIDC-S-00061	26th July	Srividya Nandam, Akhilesh Soni	International Institute of Information Technology, Pune
UIDC-S-00062	26th July	Bikash Agarwal, Sunil V N, K K Kishore, Sripradish K	S P Jain Institute of Management & Research , Mumbai
UIDC-S-00063	26th July	Abhijeet Narvenkar	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00064	26th July	Subhash Nair Pattena	Sasken Communications, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00065	26th July	Priyadarshinee Mohapatra, Shuchi Gangwal, Prasurjya Phukan Parita Katke	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00066	26th July	Akshay Khandalkar	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00067	26th July	Saurabh Garg	Creativeland Asia
UIDC-S-00068	26th July	Prasanna A. Gadkari, Praveenraj T. Uchil	IISc Bangalore
UIDC-S-00069	26th July	Veeni Patel	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00070	27th July	Karan Puri, Sorabh Jain, Samir Sawe, Prashant Dadu	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00071	27th July	Vivek Arjanlal Wadhwa, Dhiraj Kukreja, Arvind Kumar Pandey, Nripendra Rana	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00072	27th July	Prakhar Mathur, Vipul Goyal, Ankit Biyani	Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
UIDC-S-00073	27th July	Anshul Gupta	IIM Bangalore
UIDC-S-00074	27th July	Kaustubh Sonawale, Yugant Sonawale	Sardar Patel College of Engineering
UIDC-S-00075	27th July	Sarang Powar	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00076	27th July	Bindu Rama Rao	Vaudiofone Corp.
UIDC-S-00077	28th July	Rahul Deshpande	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00078	28th July	Arun B	Wipro GE Healthcare
UIDC-S-00079	28th July	Abeer Garg, Alok Chitre, Bulbul Negi, Protik Basu	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00080	28th July	Samrat Guha Niyogi, Shameek Ghosh	Samsung India Software, Bangalore Wipro Technologies, Bangalore
UIDC-P-00081	28th July	Krishna Kishore K. R, Rahul Singh	Sasken Communications, Bangalore
UIDC-P-00082	28th July	Susheel Kiran Javadi	Freelancer
UIDC-P-00083	28th July	Srikanth Nutigattu	Satyam Computer Services
UIDC-P-00084	28th July	Sunil Kumar Vuppala, Adi Mallikarjuna Reddy	Infosys Technologies
UIDC-S-00085	28th July	K Kartik Chandra, Anshuman Pachauri, Anuroop Katheriya, Manoj Veeramani	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00086	28th July	Vaibhav Khanna	Infosys Technologies, Pune
UIDC-S-00087	28th July	Radhika Ramadoss, Ekta Sachdev, Ganesh V	Symbiosis Institute of Design
UIDC-S-00089	28th July	Jahnavee Chitte	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00090	28th July	Amrapali Satpudke	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00091	28th July	Neha Yadav, Anoma Shah	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00092	28th July	Bhuvanesh Kumar.E, Shankar.P, Udhya Moorthy.G, Sampath Kumar.P	Sri Krishna College Of Engineering And Technology, Coimbatore
UIDC-P-00093	28th July	Raman Khanna, Saikat Dutta	Design For Use, Delhi Infoedge, Noida
UIDC-S-00094	28th July	Abhishek Kumar Agarwal, Shikhar Ranjan, Aastha Chandra, Aabhar Dadhich	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00095	28th July	Amaresh Gautam	MDI, Gurgaon
UIDC-S-00096	28th July	Asmita Misra, Aditi Bidkar, Sanket Sharma	Symbiosis Institiute of Design, Pune AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune
UIDC-S-00097	28th July	Pranab Shrestha, Ravi Jain, Tushar Pradhan	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00098	28th July	Saurabh Nath, Aamir Shaikh, Sohan Upadhye, Shreyas Puri	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00099	28th July	K.Jayakumar, S.Senthil Kumar, A.S.Suresh, G.Shiva	Freelancer
UIDC-P-00100	29th July	S udheesh .K.K	Sasken Communation
UIDC-P-00101	29th July	Bhaskar Thube	Sasken Communation
UIDC-S-00102	29th July	Deepak Singh	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00103	29th July	Sachin Gupta	Freelancer
UIDC-P-00104	29th July	Anshuman Kumar, Nilesh Pradeep Baraskar	Yahoo
UIDC-S-00105	29th July	Mitushi Jain, Prachi Nagpal, Pranali Khachane	NID Bangalore
UIDC-P-00106	29th July	Kalinga Bhusan Ray	Sasken Communation
UIDC-P-00107	29th July	Eswaran Narasimhan, Deepesh P C, Radha Rajgopal Tupil	NIIT Technologies, Bangalore
UIDC-P-00108	29th July	Amit Bharti, Anu Alurkar, Rajat Bhardwaj, Rahul Wagaskar	Zensar Technologies
UIDC-S-00109	29th July	Neha Jain, Reshma Desai, Aparna Iyer, Mona Jalan	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00110	29th July	Naren Jamatia	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00111	29th July	Aunindra Kumar Sinha, Shilpa Sood, Denver J Mel	Infosys, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00112	29th July	Vikramtej Kovelakonda	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00113	29th July	Susheela Beniwal, Chandra Pratap Singh	Sasken Coomunication Winfoware Technologies
UIDC-P-00114	29th July	Sandeep Peddi	CA, Hyderabad
UIDC-P-00115	29th July	Aditya Hari, Anindita De	Yahoo, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00116	29th July	Kirti Verma, Prayes Jambusaria, Sachin More	MIT ID, Pune
UIDC-S-00117	29th July	Devina Cooutinho, Manasi Agarwal, Mihir Joshi, Shruti Mehrotra	Symbiosis Institiute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00118	30th July	Abhishek Deshpande, Prateek Khurana, Amitoj Singh, Abhishaik Sharma	S P Jain Institute of Management and Research , Mumbai
UIDC-S-00119	30th July	Sumit Sharan, Indranil Chatterjee, Pankaj Kumar, Pravat Kumar Behera	IIM Bangalore
UIDC-P-00120	30th July	Rahul Tirpude, Thiyagarajan K	Freelancer
UIDC-P-00121	30th July	Kuldeep Singh, Kshitija Thakar, Manjunath Govindaraju, Sateeshu Kandikuppa	Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore
UIDC-P-00122	30th July	Srikanth Nutigattu, Nishi Gupta, Ravinder Mantrala	Satyam Computer Services
UIDC-P-00123	30th July	Gourav Marwah, Tushar Samir Gupte, Ankur Gupta	Oracle India
UIDC-P-00124	30th July	Atul Paranjpe, Vineeth Nair, Girish Gandhi, Shantanu Kulkarni	Satyam Computer Services
UIDC-P-00125	30th July	Arjun Shivanna, Karthik Ramanan, Rudresh H.B., Vishal Jain	Freelancer
UIDC-S-00126	30th July	Saurabh Srivastava, Aditi K.	IDC, IIT Bombay
UIDC-P-00127	30th July	Garima Chawla, M Subhan Ali, Rahul Alex Varghese	Infosys, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00128	30th July	Anubha Jain, Anshumai Daimari, Madhumita Sarkar, Swati Mimani	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00129	30th July	Biswanath Dalai, Gaurav Prasad	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00130	30th July	E.Sandeep Sathyanarayana	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00131	30th July	Rahul Bansal	Welingkar Institiute Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00132	30th July	Animesh Mishra, Tarun Aggarwal, Rahul Ingle, Vijay Dhoke	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00133	30th July	Sathish Kumar V, Ravikiran R	Infinera Corporation Schneider Electric
UIDC-S-00134	30th July	Anshul Gupta	IIM BAngalroe
UIDC-S-00135	30th July	Payal Chowdhury, Prantik Banerjee	IIT Kanpur
UIDC-S-00135	30th July	Prince Praveen, Ritesh Prasad, Sanmesh Thakur	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00136	30th July	Srinivasan Kumarasamy, Nanthakumar Muthusamy, Jayaseelapandian Chellaiah, Sivasubramanian Kalidas	Oracle India Zylog Systems Accenture
UIDC-S-00137	30th July	Neha Chauhan, Subodh Garg, Supriya Sehgal, Viju Nambiar	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00138	30th July	Zinal Patel	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00139	30th July	Shweta Garg, Richa Batra, Komal Minawala, Hersh Singh	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00140	30th July	Shreya Khandelwal, Reenu Raina, Sakshi Pingley	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00141	31st July	Alpi Chaudhari, Devesh Saboo, Divya Prakash Dubey, Sae Hee Ghim	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00142	31st July	Subhashish Chatterjee	Freelancer
UIDC-P-00143	31st July	Deepak Srinivasan, Anand Agrawal	WebVaasi
UIDC-P-00144	31st July	Aditi Biswas, Abir Biswas, Sandeep Singh	Freelancer
UIDC-S-00145	31st July	Hussain Arsiwalla, Siddhartha Garg, Dipti Brahmane, Naphirisa Sawian	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00146	31st July	Ravi Pandey, Prachi Nirgudkar	Welingkar Institute of Management & Development Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00147	31st July	B.L.Naveen	IDC, IIT-Bombay
UIDC-S-00148	31st July	Salil Bhargava, Gavin Remedios, Xavier Dayanand	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-P-00149	31st July	Vishal John, Manu R Nair, Jithu Gopal	Infineon Technologies, Bangalore Logica, Bangalore Delphi, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00150	31st July	Asad Hashmi, Navackotti, Nachiappan Ramanathan	Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.
UIDC-S-00151	31st July	Ramviyas N P	IIT Delhi
UIDC-S-00152	31st July	Akshaya Krishnan	Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology
UIDC-P-00153	31st July	Amrit Kumar, Nikhilesh Kumar, Renji Kuruvilla Thomas, Mahesh C	Infosys, Bangalore
UIDC-P-00154	31st July	Amit Kankani, Pramod Murthy, Bhanuchandar K	Eterno Infotech
UIDC-S-00155	31st July	Neelesh Chaurasia, Renuka Rampal	Welingkar Institiute Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00156	31st July	Abhimanyu Saxena	IIIT Hyderabad
UIDC-P-00157	31st July	Rajeev Chomacham Kandy	Sasken Communication
UIDC-S-00158	31st July	Shrikant Vishwanathan	MDI Gurgaon
UIDC-S-00159	31st July	Riyaj Isamiya Shaikh, Kirti Kanitkar, Viraj Sapre	IDC, IIT Bombay
UIDC-P-00160	31st July	Divyang Garg	Coral Soff'wares, Kolkata
UIDC-S-00161	31st July	Sarita Behera	IIT Delhi
UIDC-S-00162	31st July	Koushik Sil, Parag Mehta, Piyush Arora, Prasshant H	S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Reserach, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00163	31st July	Anirudh Roy Popli, Preeti Choudhary, Rohit Bohra	IIM Bangalore
UIDC-S-00164	31st July	Pavan Kumar D	IIIT Hyderabad
UIDC-P-00165	31st July	Rajdeep D Dalwadi	Sasken Communication
UIDC-P-00166	31st July	Prathe Shetty, Venkat Mandapati, Prachi Gupta	Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore Aricent, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00167	31st July	Sumit Dagar, Mauli Nath, Justin George	NID Bangalore
UIDC-P-00168	31st July	Bhupender Singh	Mobisy Technologies, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00169	31st July	Farhat Ali Siddiqui	Zakir Hussain College of Engg. & Tech., Aligarh.
UIDC-P-00170	31st July	Praneet Koppula, Aurobindo Nayak, Saravanan N, Kunal Kapoor	Human Factors International
UIDC-S-00171	31st July	Rohit Ashok Khot, Romanch Agrawal	IIIT Hyderabad
UIDC-S-00172	31st July	T V P Chowdry	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00173	31st July	Saurabh Srivastava	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00174	31st July	Abhishek Upadhyay, Abhilash Yesodharan, Sonu Ghosh, Akshat Bapna	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00175	31st July	Puneet Girdhar, Jairaj Bhattacharya	IIIT Hyderabad
UIDC-S-00176	31st July	Akanksha Singh, Butool Abbas	IIT Kanpur
UIDC-S-00177	31st July	Ratan . J . Sebastian	IIT Kharagpur
UIDC-S-00178	31st July	Aditya Chopra, Ankur Dimri	Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00179	31st July	Shweta Srivastava	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00180	31st July	Karan Satav, Prasad Zapke, Supriya Bendre, Prashant Raghatwan	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00181	31st July	Huda Jaffer, Priyanka Kodikal, Honey Bajaj	Srishti School of Art, Design And Technology
UIDC-P-00182	31st July	Shalini Krishnan	Honeywell Technology, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00183	31st July	Nikita Garg, Yasha Ingole	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00184	31st July	Divya Subramanian, Panindra Srinivasamurthy, Anil Adireddi	Sasken Communication
UIDC-S-00185	31st July	Payal Khuttan, Shanti Prakash Baldewa	IIT Kharagpur S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
UIDC-S-00186	31st July	Archana Nana Mane	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00187	31st July	Usha Singh, Yogesh Kumar, Shivendra Singh, Ayush Srivastava	NID Bangalore
UIDC-S-00188	31st July	Neha Saini	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00189	31st July	Sachin Rathi, Samir Bellare, Prabuddha Vyas	NID Bangalore
UIDC-P-00190	31st July	PR Seshagiri Rao	Agriculture Professional
UIDC-S-00191	31st July	Ashok Komireddy	Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad
UIDC-S-00192	31st July	Arvind P	Mallareddy College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad
UIDC-S-00193	31st July	Surabhi Singh	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-P-00194	31st July	Abhishek Shrivastava, Binoj John, Shweta Grampurohit	Freelancer
UIDC-P-00195	31st July	Swati Gupta	Infosys
UIDC-S-00196	31st July	Biswadeep Ghosh, Amit Rana, Bhupesh Garg, Konica Sharma	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
UIDC-S-00197	31st July	Anshul Bahukhandi, Rajat Khanna	College Of Engineering Roorkee Bhagwan Parshuram Institue Of Technology
UIDC-S-00198	31st July	Nitin Gupta	IIIT Hyderabad
UIDC-P-00199	31st July	Sriram A	CA Hyderabad
UIDC-S-00200	31st July	Tanmay Prakash Gupta, Amit Patil, Gaurav Narkar, Kumar Abhinav	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00201	31st July	Praveen Krishnan, Kanagavel Kannan, G. Srinu	SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00202	31st July	Akhilesh S.V	NID Ahmedabad
UIDC-S-00203	31st July	Pallavi Patil, Priyanka Ratnaparkhi, Preetesh Dixit, Ritesh Raushan	Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
UIDC-P-00204	31st July	Swati Trehan, Nitin Chawla	Globallogic, Noida MDI, Gurgaon
UIDC-P-00205	31st July	Dinesh T B	Janastu
UIDC-S-00206	31st July	Abhinav, Nishant Khurana, Priyanka Singh, V.L.Subrahmanyam	IIM BAngalroe
UIDC-P-00207	31st July	Vikram Jayaraman, Karthik Ganesan, Girish Variyath	Cisco Systems
UIDC-S-00208	31st July	Premal Gandhi, Mohsin Khan, Bikash Kumar Singh, Vishal Jain	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00209	31st July	Sandeep Banerjee, Vineet Pala, Ramya Lakshmi, Sumit Samant	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00210	31st July	Gaurav Kulkarni, Sujeet Sanzgiri, Punam Shukla, Kanchan Pande	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00211	31st July	RVV Prasad Rao D Balakrishna M Sujeeth Nanada	IIIT Hyderabad
UIDC-S-00212	31st July	Payal Khuttan, Shanti Prakash Baldewa	IIT Kharagpur S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
UIDC-S-00213	31st July	Namrata Agrawal, Nalineesh Chand, Priti Jeswani	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00214	31st July	Sayam Nagesh, Abhishek Agarawal, Pankaj Kulkarni, Gaurav Babar	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00215	31st July	Meetali Mukherjee, Dev Kuavala, Kshitij Mehta, Trupti Patankar	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00216	31st July	Amit Behal, Kavita Chauhan, Mayuri Chalke, Chriag Dedhia	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00217	31st July	Apurva Agarwal, Parakram Khandpur, Shalekh Banka, Shamiroh Tikoo	IIM Bangalore
UIDC-S-00218	31st July	Ankur Jhaveri, Mayuri Chalke, Swapnil Lal, Swagata Karmalkar	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00219	31st July	Shweta Gupta, Rahul Telgote	Freelancer
UIDC-S-00220	31st July	Nitin Gaopande, Manas Dandekar, Bhargavi Lakshminarayan N, Khusboo Kansara	Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore
UIDC-S-00221	31st July	Saurabh Rai	IIM Bangalore
UIDC-S-00222	31st July	Ritika Karnani, Rikta Krishnaswamy, Kaushik Eshwar, Siddarth Nair	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00223	31st July	Devina Cooutinho, Manasi Agarwal, Mihir Joshi, Shruti Mehrotra	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00224	31st July	Akshay Roongta, Akshay Pundir	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00225	31st July	Shavak Tanwar, Shreesh Misra, Denesh Sinha, Bishav Rajbhandari	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00226	31st July	Anjali Shah, Shamla Nakhate, Sanjukta Das, Siddharth Sarvagyam	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00227	31st July	Apporva Gupta, Sanket Sali, Tejeshwar Singh, Kunal Bansal	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00228	31st July	Kadambari Raw, Unnatee Umale, Smrita Ahuja, Sumalya Foswami	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00229	31st July	Sarjon Chatterjee Jayendra Mundada Prachi Ranavat Sakshi Deval	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-S-00230	31st July	Akshay Roongta, Akshay Pundir, Kshitiz Sharma	Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
UIDC-P-00231	31st July	Mrinal Sharma	AOL.com
UIDC-S-00232	31st July	Jaideep Pal	Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00233	31st July	Saorabh Shivhare	Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00234	31st July	Hemesh, Shashank Patil, Ameya, Kirti	Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00235	31st July	Namrata, Preeti, Nalineesh	Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00236	31st July	Shashank Shetty, Chirag Dedhia, Punit, Shahzad	Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-S-00237	31st July	Ankur, Swagata, Swapnil, Mayuri	Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research, Mumbai
UIDC-P-00238	31st July	P.V.S.S. NagaRaja, K.Pradeep, N. Ashwin	Freelancer

DESIGN CHALLENGE JURY

Jan Blom

Head, Nokia Research Center(NRC), Bangalore, India

Jan Blom is heading a multidisciplinary research group at Nokia Research Center (NRC), Bangalore. The team comprises social scientists, designers and computer scientists and its aim is to explore the rich and varied consumer landscape of today's India so as to identify novel business opportunities for Nokia in India and emerging markets in general. After pursuing his PhD around the topic of 'Psychological Implications of Personalised UIs', Jan joined NRC, Helsinki, in 2003, where he worked as Principal Scientist conducting user research in the area of social media. Later he moved to India to set up a satellite studio for Nokia Design and finally to establish the NRC research group.

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Natesh

Head, Emerging Markets Services, Nokia India

Natesh heads emerging markets services initiatives at Nokia. He is based in Bangalore, India. Natesh, has been associated with Nokia since 2002 and has held various positions under the functional areas of sales & product marketing both in India and APAC. Prior to Nokia, Natesh served in several capacities at HCL-HP, Wipro and Manipal Education. Natesh has served as a featured speaker at a number of industry business and technical events in Asia. Natesh has a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Engineering from RVCE, Bangalore. A Masters degree in Computer Aided Design from Mysore University, and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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Raman Saxena

Director User Experience, India Technology Centre, CA & Co-founder USID Foundation

Raman Saxena has 18+ years professional experience in the Technology and User Centric Design domain. Before joining CA in December 2004, he had worked as Design Engineer, Sr. Usability Specialist and Sr. Designer in various organizations including CMC, SIEMENS, NOKIA, Human Factors International Inc. & Network Program in INDIA, US, EUROPE & CHINA. He is an Electronics & Communication Engineer with Post Graduate education in Industrial Design from India’s Premier design Institute, National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmadabad. He has been part of EEU/German Govt. scholarship for advance studies with focus on Usability, Human Factors, Design & Environment in Germany and attended courses in various universities/institutes in Europe as guest student. He also successfully attended a 3 Weeks "International Management" training course in Cologne Germany. Raman is also a member of the Programme Advisory Committee of NID’s R&D Campus, Bangalore. He is also associated with various design and technology institution as guest faculty and jury member.

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PUBLICATION OF WINNERS

After the contest concludes, the winning entries will be published on the USID Foundation web site. USID Foundation will also notify the winning teams through email or phone. The profile of each of the team members of winning entries will also be published on the USID Foundation. The winners will be informed at one week before the USID2008 event that is planned from 4-6 th September 2008 in Bangalore .

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Design Challenge Jury

Jan Blom, Head Nokia Research, India

Natesh, Head, Emerging Markets Services, Nokia India

Raman Saxena, Director User Experience, India Technology Centre, CA & Co-founder USID Foundation