Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention
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Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention: Over the past year, USAID and Humanity United have jointly administered the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention, a prize contest that sought innovative ideas for applying technology to five specific issues related to atrocity prevention. Discrete problems focused on by the Tech Challenge included: how to identify and spotlight intentional or unintentional third party enablers of atrocities; how to better model or forecast the likelihood of atrocity events; how to safely document and transmit evidence of atrocities; how to enable secure communication among and between at-risk communities; and how to better obtain and verify information in hard-to-access areas. The Tech Challenge utilized three different solver platforms (OpenIDEO, InnoCentive and TopCoder) to conduct each of the separate component challenges. Four of the five component challenges were ideation challenges, meaning they solicited ideas rather than prototypes, while one of the challenges sought and tested algorithms. External judges selected the winners for all of the contests. Cash prizes were disbursed to the winners of four of the five challenges via the platforms, usually for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners, while the fifth challenges platform advised against monetary awards for winners. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is launching a Seed Grants Program to provide support for implementation of innovative technology applications for broader atrocity prevention or response efforts.
Federal Grant Title: | Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention |
Federal Agency Name: | Agency for International Development |
Grant Categories: | Humanities |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | RFA-OAA-14-000061 |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 98.001 |
CFDA Descriptions: | USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas |
Current Application Deadline: | Mar 10, 2014 |
Original Application Deadline: | Mar 10, 2014 |
Posted Date: | Feb 4, 2014 |
Creation Date: | Feb 4, 2014 |
Archive Date: | Apr 9, 2014 |
Total Program Funding: | $150,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $50,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 5 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
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- Additional Information on Eligibility
- Pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, the United States Government
(USG), as represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Science and Technology (OST) and the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance invites applications for funding from qualified U.S. and non-U.S., nonprofit or for-profit non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and international organizations (PIO or IO). - Grant Announcement Contact
- Ebony Fultz
Agreement Specialist
Phone 202-567-5034
Ebony Fultz
Agency for International Development 202-567-4664 - Similar Government Grants
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