From: Patrick Meier (iRevolution) <[email protected]>
Dear friends and partners,
We are excited to announce today that Humanity United and USAID are launching
the next round of our Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention. Final three
challenges now live at http://www.thetechchallenge.org. Learn more during a
Google+ Hangout on Friday, March 8th.
As many of you know, the Tech Challenge opened last October in search of the
most innovative applications of new and existing technologies to help prevent
mass atrocities. We announced the seven winning innovations of our first round
a few weeks ago.
The second round tackles the vital issues of (1) modeling conflict situations
to determine community-level risk of violence; (2) facilitating on-the-ground
communication among communities affected by conflict; and (3) developing
improved methods of gathering and verifying information from hard-to-access
conflict areas. To access these challenges, please go to the Tech Challenge
website.
We are also diversifying our approach in this next round to use as many
creative processes as possible. Based on the success of the first two
challenges, we will continue to use an “ideation” contest via InnoCentive; a
more collaborative, crowd-sourced process via OpenIDEO; as well as a
multi-phased call for data and algorithm contest via TopCoder.
Participate in our Google+ Hangout on Friday, March 8 @ 2:00 pm EST. The
Hangout features first round winners speaking with leading technologists and
human rights experts about the future of technology in the field of human
rights. We will be taking questions via the hashtag #genprevtech on Twitter and
you can watch the live Hangout here: http://bit.ly/VOSPJR
Spread the word! Please encourage your networks to submit their innovations for
the second round for a chance to win up to $10,000 and, potentially, the
opportunity to develop and scale their ideas with Humanity United and USAID.
Forward this e-mail, forward our video, or tweet (#genprevtech) to help us
spread the word! For more information, please see our press release and our
Frequently Asked Questions.
Tweet this!
2nd round of @HumanityUnited @USAID Tech Challenge now open! Submit innovations
to help prevent atrocities http://bit.ly/RYAjsv #genprevtech
What is the future of #tech in #humanrights? Join @USAID @HumanityUnited Google
Hangout on March 8 @ 2pm EST bit.ly/VOSPJR #genprevtech
Thank you so much for your continued interest in the USAID and Humanity United
Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention.
We’re grateful for your support as we continue with the next round.
Sincerely,
Sarah Mendelson
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA)
USAID
Michael Kleinman
Director, Investments
Humanity United
Our mailing address is:
Humanity United
One Letterman Drive
Building D, Suite D3100
San Francisco, CA 94129
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