XPRIZE Blue Button Challenge
On Tuesday 15 March 2016, XPRIZE held an engaging workshop to design a prize to turn big ocean data into valuable products. During the workshop, 'Design a Prize - The Blue Button Challenge', participants worked collaboratively to develop a number of challenges to turn existing ocean data into services for users that engage the ocean.
Through these challenges, software developers and others will create a suite of apps that are market-ready tools that transform our capacity to act based on ocean data, for users and customers as diverse as the shipping industry to school children. Based on the outcomes of this workshop, XPRIZE intends to launch the ‘Blue Button Challenge’—a prize that crowdsources programmers and data scientists to invest their skills in the production of innovative ocean data products and services—later this year.
