Фонд , engaged in financing projects aimed at solving the main problems facing humanity, award winners , the prize fund of which was $15 million. The award was established in 2014 and aims to develop open educational platforms that would allow children to independently learn reading, writing and arithmetic in 15 months, using only a tablet PC in self-organized groups without teachers.
The first six months were spent registering participants, followed by 18 months for development and 15 months for test implementations. The competition involved identifying five finalists, who would each receive a million dollars, as well as a grand prize winner, who would be paid an additional $10 million. Portability of projects to different hardware platforms (Google Pixel C tablets were used during testing) and localization into various languages were also mentioned as criteria.
A total of 198 applications were received for the competition, from which 5 finalists were selected. At the time of summing up the results, it was decided to divide the main prize between two open projects - и , the creators of which will receive $6 million. Million Dollar Awards projects , и . All projects are developed for the Android platform. In accordance with the terms of the competition, code is licensed under an Apache 2.0 license and associated content is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license.
Source: opennet.ru