[nabentre] New Competition Seeks Innovative Ideas for How Video and Computer Games Can Improve Health and Health Care

[Everett Gavel]

Hello all,

Here's an opportunity that might be right up your
alley, for one of you out here.  We got any programmers
here who might be interested in developing an
educational, accessible game?  My first thought was
some kind of video/computer game that teaches one how
to better, or should I say, properly, take care of
their Diabetes.  Please forward this funding
opportunity for game developers and programmers, to
people and lists you think would be interested.

Thanks,
Everett
www.everettgavel.com



New Competition Seeks Innovative Ideas for How Video
and
Computer Games Can Improve Health and Health Care

Deadline: September 25, 2007

A new competition seeks novel ways in which video and
computer
 games can be used to help people manage their health
and improve
 how their care is provided. The online competition,
"Why Games
 Matter: A Prescription for Improving Health and Health
Care,"
 is sponsored by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert
Wood Johnson
 Foundation ( http://www.rwjf.org/ ) and uses a unique,
open
 source competition model developed by Changemakers
 ( http://www.changemakers.net/ ), an initiative of
Ashoka:
 Innovators for the Public ( http://www.ashoka.org/ ),
that
 promotes enterprising solutions to social problems.

"Why Games Matter" is the third in a series of idea
competitions
 co-sponsored by RWJF and Changemakers. The
collaborative competi-
 tion model attracts solutions from social
entrepreneurs from the
 U.S. and around the globe. Innovators submit their
ideas online
 and the Changemakers community provides feedback on
the problem
 and proposed solutions throughout the life of the
competition.

Through this competition, RWJF's Pioneer Portfolio and
Change-
 makers hope to challenge game developers, researchers,
health
 organizations, and others to demonstrate new and
therapeutic
 ways in which games can help improve health and health
care. The
 open source structure of the competition also will
further build
 and energize the community of people who see the
potential of
 connecting games and health.

An expert panel of judges will select approximately
twelve final-
 ists. The Changemakers global online community then
will vote on
 the competition Web site for three winners, each of
whom will
 receive a $5,000 cash prize from Changemakers. All
finalists will
 win the opportunity to attend the "Why Games Matter"
Change Summit
 at the 2008 Games for Health conference, the premier
event for
 game developers, researchers, funders, and other
leaders in this
 growing field.

The online application can be found at the Changemakers
Web site.

RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10008206/changemakers

For additional RFPs in Science/Technology, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_science_technology.jhtml