Challenge.gov – Government Challenges, Your Solutions
http://challenge.gov/

Created by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Challenge.gov is an online platform “that empowers the U.S. government and the public to bring the best ideas and top talent to bear on our nation’s most pressing challenges.” The “challenges” included here are created by one party (or a “seeker”) to a third party or parties to “identify a solution to a particular problem or reward contestants for accomplishing a particular goal.” On the site’s homepage, visitors can read over the “Featured Challenges” to get a feel for the activities going on here. Some of the featured challenges include the Department of Labor’s disability employment app challenge and the Department of Health and Human Services’ “My Air, My Health” challenge, designed to help create a “personal, portable, near-real-time, location specific system to monitor and report air pollutants and potentially related physiological parameters”. Visitors can use the Search feature to look for specific items of interest or browse a list of challenges grouped by organization. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2012. http://scout.wisc.edu/