Reliance Developer Programme of Reliance Communications has launched the Rural Mobile Application Contest, 2007 - 08 to encourage mobile application development in the country.

This year the focus will be on rural applications for transportation, m-commerce, health care services, governance, education, information and location based services that cater to the needs of rural population.

Applications can be submitted for WAP, Java, Reliance Java, Brew, Brew Lite, VoxML and Symbian environments on both GSM and CDMA technology.

The Contest is open to all Software professionals, Software Developers, Companies, Students, self employed professionals and Content vendors/ Aggregators.

The participants can look forward to cash prizes and an opportunity to monetize their applications.

For more details on the contest and to resgister for the contest log on to www.dadp.com.