White House Recognition for Scientists Without Borders
It’s congratulations to Scientists Without Borders for the recognition it received from the White House at a special event on Wednesday.
The web-based collaborative community was acknowledged for its model of generating world-beating innovations to solve long-standing global developmental problems.
The Obama Administration picked out two projects in particular that demonstrate the organisation’s ability to combine crowdsourcing with its partner network to tackle problems.
Those two projects were:
- A partnership with PepsiCo, to create a $10,000 Global Maternal Malnutrition Challenge for solutions to micro-nutrient deficiency among women of childbearing age in the developing world. The challenge generated ideas from 22 countries and reached 300,000 people.
- Scientists without Borders partnered with DSM (a global science-based company) to design and issue a new challenge to find innovative ideas for more sustainable packaging for micro-nutrient powders. This challenge will be issued this spring with a prize of at least $25,000 for the most innovative ideas.
“We are honoured that the Administration has recognized our unique, open, and innovation-driven model for leveraging science and technology to surface and accelerate solutions to the most urgent development challenges, along with the other important efforts announced today” said Shaifali Puri, Executive Director of Scientists Without Borders.
“We believe that these projects demonstrate our capacity to leverage our highly credible and independent network of scientific expertise and combine it with the resources and assets of our world-class partners to identify potentially game-changing solutions, and drive them to implementation and impact.”
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