New prize competition seeks innovative ideas to advance open science | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

"The National Institutes of Health has partnered with London-based Wellcome Trust to launch a global science competition for new products or services to advance 'open science,' a movement to make scientific research data broadly accessible to the public. Up to six teams of technology experts and researchers stand to win $80,000 each to develop their ideas into a prototype or to advance an existing early stage prototype. The prototype judged to have the greatest potential to further open science will receive $230,000 ... The first phase of the competition is accepting applications through Feb. 29, 2016. Six teams will be selected based on the advice of a panel of experts ..."

(link is external)to receive the prize money to advance their ideas to prototypes, and will be required to submit their prototypes by Dec. 1, 2016. The overall winner is expected to be selected on Feb. 28, 2017. More information about the Open Science Prize can be found at: http://openscienceprize.org(link is externa ..."