Operation Blue Sky crowdsourcing ideas for aboriginal health care – The Globe and Mail
Mar. 31 2015
A long and dark list materializes when tabulating the health problems plaguing First Nations communities across Canada: HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, nutritional deficits, alcohol and drug dependency, suicide.
Some innovative thinkers say they believe a brilliant solution could cost as little as $25,000.
An accounting firm and new tech outfit have paired to try to inspire problem-solvers from around the world to generate cost-effective ideas that might prove to be the magic elixir for the health-care challenges facing First Nations.
MNP LLP has adopted a strategy that’s also being used by Google as it tries to send a robot to the moon – combining crowdsourcing and cash incentives to find solutions.
