Open Innovation Challenge for Atrocity Prevention
In October 2012 USAID (United States Agency for International Development ) and Humanity United launched the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention.
This is an open innovation contest for the development of innovative concepts and new technologies to help prevent such mass atrocities as genocide and ethnic cleansing.
There are five challenges in total. Two of those are now closed and the winners have been announced, but three new challenges have just been opened. They offer up to $10,000 for winning problem solvers.
The three current challenges are ‘model’, ‘communicate’, and ‘alert’.
Model is asking for the creation of a model that will help to identify community-level risk factors that make communities more or less likely to experience acts of violence. Participants can leverage existing public datasets on national and subnational violence for their models.
Communicate seeks an improvement in communications with and between conflict-affected communities or those at imminent risk. During times of crises vulnerable communities are often cut off from key sources of information.
Alert challenges participants to develop affordable, scalable technologies to allow NGOs and human rights activists to gather more information or verify exiting information.
The breakdown of prizes for each category is as follows:
First place – $10,000
Second place – $7,000
Third place – $3,000
The most promising ideas could be developed.
Further Details
The challenges close on the 16th April 2013. For further details and to register your ideas click here.
To read about the wining concepts for the first two challenges click here.
There is also a Google+ hangout that features judges and winners from the earlier round.
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