The White House wants to identify Grand Challenges in science and technology that will help inspire a new era of innovation. And they're asking for your ideas, right on Twitter. These challenges will inspire innovations that create jobs, improve education, power clean energy, transform health care, and more.
Here's how to help:
- Think big! Imagine an ambitious science or technology challenge (something huge like the moon landing!) which you think can inspire great new ideas and inventions.
- Reply to the @whitehouse tweet with your idea, or a link to ideas you find interesting. Use the hashtag #whgc.
- Encourage your friends and followers to respond, too!
How It Works
How is the White House going to hear your voice? Well, we're a new independent non-profit called Expert Labs, and we've made a system that lets us collect publicly-shared responses to questions like this one from the White House. We'll share those replies with the White House, scientists, and the public at large.
We're part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (not part of the government), so we'll be asking thousands of scientists to participate along with you. Once policy makers see how they can use social networks like Twitter and Facebook to get good ideas from the public, we know they'll keep coming back to do it again.
Find Out More
- Read the White House's Grand Challenges Request for Information, which details the overall initiative, including the eight challenges that the President and his team have already identified.
- If you're a programmer, designer or geek, check out ThinkTank, the free and open platform that Expert Labs has created to let anyone tap into the expertise of their social network connections.
- Follow @expertlabs on Twitter and find out what cool project we'll be up to next!
