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

Very cool!
 I'll put this item for discussion on next week's Life Sciences forum call
(Tuesday 11am EDT).

Best,

m.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com
> 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/
>
>
>


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Michel Dumontier
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