I’ve been looking to write something again on current trends in media and politics, and while I haven’t quite come to any solid conclusions…at least not enough to write about at length…I did stumble on an event of interest, The Annual Blackberry Green Application Challenge, that looks to be both exciting, and fun to boot.

Apparently, as listed on zerofootprint.net, the contest opened March 1, 2010 and is running through April 14, 2010 and is a competition put together by Research in Motion, the cell phone manufacturer, to create a wireless phone application for the Blackberry that solves a common environmental or sustainability issue within a company.

It fun to see something like this just because, while cell phone applications haven’t been around for very long, they have become such an integral part of our culture. This has opened a number of doors for programmers, businesses, and the community alike to take risks on small ideas to illicit a big consumer wide response. This is obviously the case for such consumer friendly applications as video games and office software, but we don’t often consider the application of cell phone phone apps for purposes such as environmental and political campaigning…or for that matter, even direct action initiatives. There’s a whole world of opportunity here that companies and non-profit political groups have just barely scratched the surface of, and it’s good to see a company such a RIM attempting to develop that.