Federal Government Challenges Related to Safety
Want to create an app for Safety? Join one of the Federal agency competitions and challenges for developing apps with public safety data. Challenges range from brainstorming ideas to creating applications to proposing research.
Open Challenges
US DOT Motorcoach Safety Data Student Challenge
Deadline: Monday, December 31, 2012
Award: Recognition and Announcement at US DOT/Industry Event TBD
Data can improve decision making. This challenge asks you to analyze or visualize Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) motorcoach safety and other relevant data to help improve those decisions. We challenge you to make better information accessible to more people to encourage better decisions. Through better decisions we can drastically improve the safety of our nation’s motor coaches. Do you have what it takes to develop an innovative product that benefits motorcoach travelers? The United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) wants to see what you can do!
National Institute of Justice Body Armor Challenge
Deadline: Friday, December 14, 2012
Award: $50,000 in prizes
The U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and other federal agencies have funded research to develop materials, performance standards, and compliance testing methods to help ensure that body armor meets certain minimum performance requirements to protect the officers who wear it.
Department of Labor Worker Safety and Health App Challenge
Deadline: Friday, November 30, 2012
Award: $30,000 in prizes
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) wants your help in building tools to educate the public about safety in the workplace.
USDA Drought Code Sprint
Deadline: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Award: Highlight on USDA drought web pages
USDA’s first-ever Drought Code Sprint is a call to developers across the country to use publicly available government information to help farmers, ranchers, and others gain quick and reliable “one-click” access to information on drought conditions and Federal drought relief.
MADD - Tie One on for Safety® Infographic Challenge
Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2012
Award: Public Recognition and use in Tie One on for Safety Campaign
Drunk driving is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States, killing 10,228 in 2010 and injuring about 345,000 more. Mothers Against Drunk Driving is working to eliminate this violent crime and works to raise awareness of this issue around the end of the year when drunk driving is, sadly, more common. We do this primarily through our Tie One on for Safety public awareness program.
This year, we want you to provide an interesting, engaging, and compelling look at government drunk driving statistics in support of the program. The winner of this Challenge will be publicly recognized along with their infographic in MADD’s national Tie One on for Safety press release, issued in November 2012.
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Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge
Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) listed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) create a safe environment for health care providers to collect, aggregate, and analyze data without fear of legal discovery. This flow of information is designed to improve the quantity and quality of actionable information available and ultimately improves the safety of health care by identifying and reducing the risks associated with patient care.
The Institute of Medicine, in its 2011 report on Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, recommended voluntary adverse event reporting by health care providers and promoted PSOs using AHRQ’s Common Formats as the “best option” for advancing effective reporting. Because medical errors occur in a complex environment and are caused by multiple factors, adverse event reporting must capture a wide range of data, which may go beyond structured data required by Common Formats. Furthermore, providers may need to send the same or similar data to more than one PSO as well as to other public health or health oversight agencies.
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