The Technology Strategy Board has a new SBRI competition, which opened 20 April 2009. It is being run by the Design Council on behalf of the Home Office and is looking at how technology can be applied to the area of mobile phone security.

The Mobile Phone Security Challenge is offering a total of £400,000 to designers and technology experts to come up with new ways of securing handsets, the data they contain, and their future use as electronic ‘wallets’ when m-commerce technology is introduced in the UK.

The Challenge is part of Design out Crime, an initiative from the Home Office Design & Technology Alliance Against Crime and the Design Council. The Mobile Phone Security Challenge is supported by the Technology Strategy Board.

More information and details of the competition are on the Design Council website.