Ito, tamang-tama sa mga (at naging) ECOMERS students:
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Objective:
To encourage the development and adoption of e-commerce in the Philippines and to provide incentives and support to would-be online entrepreneurs.

Contest Rules:

  1. Contestant(s) must be a duly-enrolled college or post-college student for school year 2006-07 in a reputable school
  2. Contest entries may be any project which involves an online payment or transaction component. The project proposal need not be 100% online (ie. actual delivery of goods may be physical). Several examples of commercial e-commerce sites can be found at  https://www.payeasy.ph/news.html.
  3. Ideas may be implemented using any commercial or open source development tool and platform. Contestant(s) may opt to use and customize off-the-shelf Mozcom NetPresence e-commerce solutions to implement the idea. Mozcom can extend technical assistance for projects that use its turnkey solutions including PayEasy payments.

Mechanics:

  1. Interested parties should fill-up the online contest entry form together with the product/service write-up to Mozcom Inc. on or before Nov 15, 2006.
  2. Applicant may be an individual or a team composed of not more than 5 students.
  3. There is no limit to the number of entries a single applicant may submit.
  4. Pre-screening will be conducted from Nov 16 to 20 to determine finalists.
  5. Project will be implemented from Nov 27, 2006 to Mar 18, 2007.
  6. Finalists are required to present their entries to the Board of Judges for the initial presentation on Mar 19 to 22, 2007.
  7. A grand prize and a runner-up will be awarded.
  8. Awarding will be held on Mar 30, 2007 at Merks Bar Bistro at Greenbelt 3.

Criteria for Judging:

  1. Originality (20%)
  2. Innovativeness (20%)
  3. Usefulness (20%)
  4. Market Potential (20%)
  5. Implementation (20%)

Prizes:

  1. Cash prize of P50,000 and Trophy for Grand Prize; P20,000 and Plaque for the Runner-up; and Plaques for the finalists
  2. Contract for continued commercialization of winning entry, which will include hosting, payment processing, backend support, marketing and advertising
  3. Winners will be featured in Mozcom and PayEasy websites
  4. For more information or clarifications, email us at [email protected].


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert “Bob” Reyes is a technologist, an ICT Consultant and Tech Speaker, a certified Google IT Support Specialist, and an Open Source advocate representing the global non-profit Mozilla (makers of Firefox) in the Philippines. Bob is a Technology Columnist for the Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation and an aviation subject matter expert contributor for Spot.PH.

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