Another exciting apps challenge, brought to you from our friends at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).

Check out the CDC Flu App Challenge.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking for an innovative and creative use of technology to raise awareness of influenza and/or educate consumers on ways to prevent and treat the flu, be it for:

• the web
• a personal computer,
• a mobile handheld device,
• or any platform broadly accessible to the open Internet.

What’s in it for you?

Challenging competition. Potential cash prize. And satisfaction in contributing to a healthier public!

The tools and technology products that best satisfy the competition criteria will receive cash prizes ($35,000 in prizes offered) and the opportunity to have the apps featured on the CDC website.

You pick the technology and design the idea, we’ll provide the data

Applicants are encouraged to mashup CDC data with any other publicly-accessible data feeds from around the web, and to be creative in exploring approaches for realizing the goals.  CDC is asking developers to develop innovative applications with CDC’s flu data. In addition, you can draw on data and resources from any other online public sources, related to flu or otherwise.

Learn More & Enter to Win!

Prizes are as follows:

• First Place: $15,000
• Second Place: $10,000
• Third Place: $5,000
• People’s Choice: $2,500
• Honorable Mention: $2,500 (judges will have the discretion of awarding up to five “honorable mention” prizes at $500 each)

Submissions are due May 27, 2011. Enter to win at http://fluapp.challenge.gov.

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