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Microsoft UK's IT design competition to benefit charities
Howard Lake | 25 January 2007 | News
Microsoft UK has launched DesignIT 2007, a competition for IT professionals to design innovative IT systems for UK charities. The winner will receive funding to implement the system for their chosen charity.
Microsoft UK is asking IT professionals to submit a system design that will improve the IT infrastructure of a charity of their choice. For those professionals without a particular charity in mind, they can apply themselves to some of the problems that competition partners NSPCC, Leonard Cheshire and Global Action Plan have provided.
Entrants have to work to a budget of £15,000, including all software and hardware. Entries can be in the form of a Visio diagram, a sketch from a whiteboard, or another appropriate presentation. The design need not involve Microsoft technology.
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The top five entries selected by the judges will then be put to the public vote to choose the overall winner.
The winning entry will be passed to a team of Microsoft technical specialists who will work with the winner to implement the system.
Four runners-up will each receive £1,000 worth of Microsoft consultancy and £1,000 worth of Microsoft software for the charity named on their winning entry.
All five finalists will win a free ticket to IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona.
The competition closes on 23 March 2007.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.