CZ.NIC Opens a Competition for Young Programmers

Participants can enter the competition until September 30.

September 4, Prague – The CZ.NIC association, administrator of the .CZ domain, launches today a competition for young talents in the ICT area. The VIP (Volunteer and develop, Innovate, Program) Programme can be entered with projects aiming at development of open-source software or innovation of software used in the field of Internet technologies, services or infrastructure. A successful project can be awarded up to 50.000 CZK. Participants can enter the competition until September 30.
The competition consists of several stages. First, the participants hand in their project designs. From these an expert committee chooses those that meet stipulated criteria. Then, the execution of the projects themselves begins. It is followed by evaluation and prize presentation.
"The VIP – Volunteer and develop, Innovate, Program – competition is another of CZ.NIC projects which, together with the Czech version of the film Warriors on the Net, aims at providing public education about the Internet. Its objective is to support talented programmers in their efforts and help them see tangible results. Apart from receiving financial prize, they will get a real possibility of using their project in practice,” says Ondřej Filip, the CEO of CZ.NIC.
Detailed schedule with information about how to enter the competition, the possibilities of implementing the project, the expert commission etc. is available at http://www.nic.cz/vip/. The media partners of the competition are the information portals Root.cz, ABC Linuxu, IT Systems and the magazine Connect.