Innovative Solutions for Market Opportunity
Innovative solutions to generate employment for disadvantaged populations.
Flu App Challenge
Create an app to raise awareness of influenza and/or educate consumers on ways to prevent and treat the flu.
Family Care Communication Platform
Educational materials, product information/recommendations and established healthcare techniques.
Humanitarian Air Drop
Alternative way to drop large amounts Humanitarian food and water packages from an aircraft into populated areas.
Next Generation Home
High performance homes that address issues of affordability, sustainability, efficiency, and environmental design.
Device to Reduce Water Consumption
Innovative technical devices to reduce water consumption in both domestic and commercial usage.
Shipping Container Building Design
Create aesthetically pleasing, sustainable core and shell designs for a multipurpose structure in Long Beach using shipping containers as building materials.
Mobile Technologies for Maternal Health
Explore how mobile technologies can be used to improve maternal health, particularly in pregnancy and childbirth.
Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge
Deliver a payload with a mass of at least 1 kilogram to Earth orbit.
Visualize Medical Record
Create healthcare studies and powerful apps built around a free medical record dataset.
Sample Return Robot
Locate and retrieve specific sample types from various locations and return those samples.
Quick 3D Landscape Rendering
Ways to quickly render high-fidelity 3D reality simulations from commercial geographic databases.
$300 House
Replace unsafe structures of self-built houses with a mass-produced, standard, affordable, and sustainable solution.
Make Packaging Easier to Recycle
New and improved ways to make this multiple layers packaging easier to recycle.
Underground Positioning
Proposals for the development of a reliable technology that allows for highly accurate 3-dimensional geospacial postioning information in an underground mining environment.
Cloud-Enhanced Accessibility
How can cloud computing can create new opportunities for people with disabilities?
Sustainable Urban Housing
Ashoka’s Changemakers is looking for innovative solutions that engage communities, entrepreneurs, and key institutions in collaborating to integrate and develop affordable, inclusive, and sustainable urban housing that respects the environment, local cultures, and practices.
Cooking with Less Energy
Methods to reduce the energy consumption in industrial food preparation processes.
Design an Ultra-low-footprint Apartment
LifeEdited is a design challenge by Treehugger to radically reduce a 39 square meter apartments' footprint, while living better and saving money.
Apps for Development
Ideas from software developers and the development practitioners to create innovative apps using World Bank data.
Applications for New York City
Develop creative applications for delivering information from the City of New York's NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.
Ideas for International Space Station
Ideas related to the efficient exploitation of an infrastructure for post-ISS infrastructures development.
Federal Building to Zero Environmental Impact
Innovative ideas on how to take a midcentury federal office building and make it a model of environmental efficiency.
Today’s Technology for Environment
How can today’s technology address the environmental challenges we’re all facing? Maybe the tools to solve the big environmental problems threatening our planet already exist. We just need to apply them in a different way.
Recipes for Healthy Kids
Create tasty, healthy, exciting new recipes for inclusion on school lunch menus.
Increase Learning Tools & Services in the Developing World
Increasing the access of low-cost and appropriate learning tools for affordable private schools in India and worldwide.
Raise Kids’ Awareness of the Benefits of Fresh Food
Change the way kids eat by teaching them how to cook and what fresh food can do for them. This is all in the effort to help fight to obesity.
Monitoring the Voice of the Patient Over The Internet
The Seeker is looking for methods of leveraging internet-based information resources to gather information about the performance of medical treatments from patients and their caregivers.
What to Do with All That Wastewater?
The Seeker is looking for methods to reduce the overall costs associated with the management of industrial sulphate wastewater by identifying alternative, sustainable, recycling/re-usage-methods and/or identifying alternative disposal steps for its wastewater.
Improving the First 20 Years of Human Health
Launch seeks innovations that are preventive with a focus on nutrition, exercise, and health care. NASA, USAID, Department of State, and NIKE joined together to host Launch in an effort to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges.
Oil Cleanup X Challenge
Clean up seawater surface oil resulting from spillage from ocean platforms, tankers, and other sources.
Ecomagination Challenge
GE’s Ecomagination Challenge is a $200 million call to action for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students to share their best ideas and come together to take on one of the world’s toughest challenges – building the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21st century.
Apps for Healthy Kids
$60,000 in prizes to create innovative, fun and engaging software tools and games that encourage children directly or through their parents to make more nutritious food choices and be more physically active.
Extremely Fuel Efficient Vehicle
$10 million in prizes will be awarded in September 2010 to the teams that win a rigorous stage competition for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPG energy equivalent (MPGe).
21st Century Cyber Schools
The Economist is seeking insights on the topic of the 21st Cyber Schools. Solvers from any discipline or background are invited to participate.
