Architecture for Humanity, led by Cameron Sinclair, is running their first design competition in three years. The Challenge is not only broad in reach but the communities they are working with are simply amazing. For the first time ever they are running a global design competition with three sites on three continents each with a unique challenge - from creating a fair-trade exchange and chocolate factory in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a youth center with media lab and recording studio in the heart of the informal settlements of Nairobi and a remote tele-medicine center in the foothills of the Himalayas. Entrants can enter one, two or all three sitehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs and yes you can win all three.

It's $25 to enter until December 15th and $30 after. If you are doing the competition as a studio we have special rates for large groups and as with every Architecture for Humanity competition it is free for any entries from developing nations.

Proceeds from the competition entry fees will be awarded to the top entry for each site. One overall winning solution will be built with funding from AMD (up to $250,000) as part of its 50x15 Initiative to connect 50 percent of the world to the Internet by 2015. Centers will be constructed for the other two sites and replicated for additional community partners as funding becomes available.

Learn more at http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/challenge.