You may never be an astronaut and you may never travel through space, but now you can contribute to man's unending journey thanks to the NASA Space Apps Challenge.
Calling on the talents and resources of space enthusiasts, America's world-famous aeronautics department is hoping that the solutions to humanity's pressing problems are within reach. Pick a global issue, any: deforestation, climate change, crumbling world finance, starvation or kleptocratic governments. The NASA Space Apps Challenge is casting their crowd-sourced net across the seven continents and hoping you have the key to any of these worldwide dilemmas.
So whether you want to co-ordinate protests, improve government transparency or simply connect affluent Westerners with impoverished communities, feel free to enter the competition and do your part for humankind.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Crowd-sourcing Solutions
- The NASA Space Apps Challenge is leveraging the power of crowd-sourcing to find innovative solutions to global issues.
- Technology for Social Impact
- The challenge encourages the use of technology to address worldwide dilemmas such as deforestation, climate change, and poverty.
- Collaborative Problem-solving
- Through the challenge, space enthusiasts are collaborating across continents to tackle pressing problems and create positive change.
Where This Applies
- Information Technology
- The IT industry can benefit from the potential disruptive innovation opportunities that arise from the collaboration of space enthusiasts to find tech-based solutions to global issues.
- Environmental Conservation
- The environmental conservation industry has a chance to explore disruptive innovations in areas like deforestation and climate change through the solutions generated by the NASA Space Apps Challenge.
- Social Enterprise
- The social enterprise sector can tap into the collaboration and innovation of the challenge to address challenges related to poverty and government transparency.
