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India will host the 2006 Imagine Cup, an annual global competition held by Software Giant Microsoft that gives students an opportunity to showcase innovative concepts using technology to tackle emerging social issues.
Announcing the winners of the Imagine Cup 2005, held in Japan, S. `Soma` Somasegar, Microsoft`s Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, said the next high profile competition would be held in India.
Next year`s competition would invite students to imagine a world where technology enables us to live healthier lives, said Somasegar, who also oversees Microsoft`s India Development Centre in Hyderabad.
Winners of the prestigious award this year were the team from Russia that demonstrated how music could bring people together.
At the finals in Yokohama, Japan, over 10,000 students from more than 90 countries competed in nine different categories.
And while the winners walked away with some serious cash, Somasegar said, all teams will walk away with great experiences, new friendships and quite possibly new opportunities to shape the world we live in through software.
The theme for this year`s competition, which is into its third year, was Breaking Down Boundaries. Students were encouraged to conceptualise technology solutions to help address emerging social issues.
Earlier, on his Web-blog, Somasegar said the Indian team was among his favourites. However, the team did not win any award this year.
(Among my favourites was) the team from my home country of India, which has developed a medical application that provides a one-stop resource for doctors to understand their patients` histories and communicate with other doctors in real time - among other things.
Doctors who have better data and peer access make better decisions faster; one day their application may literally be measured by the number of lives it saves, he said.
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