Re: My Air, My Health Challenge announced at Health Datapalooza today

On 2012-06-06 15:42, Bernadette Hyland wrote:
> Hi,
> Drs. Glenn Paulson (EPA Science Advisor) and Linda Birnbaum (NIEHS, NIH, National Toxicology Program)  announced this multidisciplinary challenge this morning.  A prize of $15k goes to each of the 4 finalists.  Winners will receive $100k.
>
> "A multidisciplinary call to innovators to create a personal, portable, near-real-time, location-specific system to monitor and report air pollutants and potentially related physiological parameters."
>
> See http://challenge.gov/HHS/372-my-air-my-health-challenge
>
> On behalf of the Government Linked Data working group, we'd welcome the opportunity to discuss this at a future HCLS telecon (and vice versa) and see if we can't team some smart scientists with innovative developers who can leverage 5 star Linked Data to meet this challenge.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernadette Hyland, co-chair
> W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
> Charter: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
>
>

Nice incentives and a very cool challenge :)

Just a (minor) note: the eligibility to participate is that, one has to 
be an U.S. citizen/resident or anyone that works for an institute in U.S.

-Sarven

Received on Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:18:56 UTC