Water and Climate Shocks Ideation Challenge

Jul 21, 2015 | Skoll Global Threats Fund & Innocentive
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The Skoll Global Threats Fund is partnering with Innocentive in a challenge to identify early indications of when a water or climatic event in one location, such as a flood, drought, or heatwave, may trigger direct and indirect impacts elsewhere in the world (for example: large scale migration, food insecurity, social unrest, infectious disease). This Challenge asks “what are the ways in which we can identify early indications and/or patterns of complex events that can have triggering effects elsewhere in the world?” This project aims to contribute to an emerging field of big data and forecasting, and the proposed methodology would ideally allow for near-real time monitoring and a method for triggering alerts for when indications are identified.

This is an Ideation Challenge, which has the following unique features:

     1) There is a guaranteed award. The awards will be paid to the best submission(s) as solely determined by the Seeker. The total payout will be $30,000, with at least one award being no smaller than $10,000 and no award being less than $2,000.

     2) Submission forforwarding occurs during the Challenge.  Since submissions will be forwarded to the Seeker throughout the Challenge, please make sure you upload only a finished proposal. You can submit an updated version of your proposal only as a new submission. If you submit an updated version of your proposal, please clearly indicate the new items and/or edits compared to your previous submission. This will allow the Seeker to quickly find the new information and determine how it improves your submission. 

     3) The Solvers are not required to transfer exclusive intellectual property rights to the Seeker.  Rather, by submitting a proposal, the Solvers grants to the Seeker a royalty-free, perpetual, and non-exclusive license to use any information included in this proposal.

Submissions to this Challenge must be received by 11:59 PM (US Eastern Time) on August 17, 2015.  Late submissions will not be considered.