The ITU Telecom World 2016 – Young Innovators Competition aims to foster innovative ideas amongst the next generation of social entrepreneurs working to change the world through technology.
It is open to any young person from Members States of the ITU, between the ages of 18 and 30, entrepreneurs with innovative ideas on how ICTs can mitigate the various problems faced by refugees. This could include helping to provide critical services such as education and healthcare to refugees, working to prevent the situations that create refugees, connecting families and tracking movements, helping to make refugees feel at home in their host country, or safely returning refugees to their home countries.​

Participants will have to submit entries for concepts or start-ups here.
The best participants will be invited by the German Government to attend CeBIT 2016 from March 14-18, and work together to strengthen their concepts, building better and potentially entirely new startups as a community. The two best ideas coming out of CeBIT will be extended further benefits, such as~visibility, networking and capacity building opportunities.

Deadline for applications: 20 January 2016.

Find out more: https://ideas.itu.int/category/5090