What Would You Do with 1 Gigabit per Second?

June 15, 2012 By IdeaConnection
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Well, here’s something of a humongous challenge to get your teeth into – help design the Internet of the future. Mozilla and the National Science Foundation have announced an open innovation competition for designers, developers and anyone with an interest, to create apps for the ‘faster, smarter Internet of the future’.

The goal is to design and build apps that will benefit the public and be able to take advantage of the next generation of broadband networks that will move things around at speeds of up to 250 times faster than today. A total of $500,000 of prize money is up for grabs.

The open innovation challenge is called Mozilla Ignite and it’s part of the US Ignite Initiative which is exploring what’s possible with ultra-fast networks.

“Mozilla believes in the power of the open Internet and the power of distributed, community-based innovation,” said Mozilla’s Executive Director, Mark Surman. “This is an invitation to designers, developers and civic thinkers to create software that shapes the future and helps their communities.”

The first stage of the contest is the Brainstorming Round where everyone can submit ideas. At this stage all the organizers want are great ideas.

The best ones will be given funding and support to help them become a reality, and later stages will explore application design and development.

Ideas for an Internet without Limits

Participants will have access to technologies developed through the National Science Foundation’s Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) program. The advanced network has dizzying speeds of up to one gigabit per second.

Everyone is invited to take part in the Brainstorming Round and the deadline for ideas is August 23, 2012. So if have any thoughts of what you could do with super-fast broadband network speeds click here.

 


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