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IMAGINE CUP 2012
AZURE CHALLENGE
ROUND 1 APPLICATION SUMMARY TEMPLATE

Azure Challenge Application Summary Template for Team: Nimbus

Instructions
This is the Azure Challenge Round 1 Application Summary Template. This is part of your Team’s Round 1 Entry Requirement. It is designed to guide you to include the required components of your Team’s project. Please use the questions in each section to align your submission with the judging requirements. Steps: • Insert your team name above • Answer the questions below. Please be thorough. • This Application Summary must not exceed 15,000 characters including spaces. • The character count starts below the line identified here*. • This document must be submitted in the English Language. • This document must be named as follows: Azure_Challenge_Round_1_Project_Plan_[Team Name].DOC, .DOCX or .PDF, .RTF or .TXT. • Submit your Team’s Round 1 entry by utilizing the submission form on the entry panel of the Azure Challenge page at imaginecup.com no later than then closing date of Round 1 (13 March, 2012, 11:59 GMT).

Questions
1. What problem are you solving as it relates to the Imagine Cup Theme? Describe the real world problem you are working to solve (not the application itself – that information goes below). Describe why you think solving this problem would be meaningful or helpful to some number of people? Who will benefit from having this problem solved?

2. Name and Description of your Application:
What is the name of your Application? Please describe it in detail.

3. Windows Azure Platform Functionality:
Describe how you will leverage the power of the cloud to provide a solution which could not be solved without the underlying Windows Azure platform features. How does your application innovate by leveraging the Windows Azure platform features and services to create a unique and more powerful solution?

4. Pre-existing



References: [1] Mercurio, Resolving the Public Health Crisis in the Developing World: Problems and Barriers of Access to Essential Medicines, http://www.law.northwestern.edu/jihr/v5/n1/1/. [2] Medicinal Drugs in the Third World, http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/brazil/medicinal-drugs-third-world.

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