NSF Advanced Wireless Communities Open Innovation Challenge

在发生自然灾害时，可靠的无线连接不仅为寻求资源、亲人和可靠信息的受害者带来巨大好处，还可以拯救生命。与Mozilla合作管理的NSF高级无线社区开放创新挑战赛(The Challenges)既促进了科学的进步，也促进了国家健康和福利。挑战赛将寻求创新、低成本的解决方案，以提供关键的互联网服务，如导航、本地化、社交网络、消息服务、目录服务、语音呼叫、访问知识数据库，以解决灾后或在没有救生连接的情况下的救生连接问题。选定的解决方案将很容易扩展，以应对对民间社会的直接潜在影响，并将促进学术界和工业界之间的伙伴关系，从而加速将有希望的研究转化为实践。获奖解决方案将融入Mozilla开放标准实践和价值观，包括：(1)开放平台应用程序流程，以及具有开放许可的代码和内容的解决方案；(2)基于开放标准的可互操作的分散解决方案，允许信息和内容的无缝流动和传输；(3)数字包容和网络素养：获奖解决方案意味着增加对网络的访问和了解。研究人员、软件工程师、企业家和其他人被邀请争夺200万美元的奖金，以获得两个挑战问题的最佳解决方案，每个阶段包括两个阶段。第一阶段涉及对创造力和创新的广泛追求，分配给学生六个月的时间来开发申请、提交评审和奖项。第一阶段的获奖者，或那些具有特殊概念的获奖者，进入第二阶段，再次有六个月的时间来制定和提交获奖申请。竞赛获胜者将于2018年6月在华盛顿特区展示潜在的技术解决方案。挑战1题为“脱离电网的互联网”，重点放在负担得起的实用解决方案上，这些解决方案将在灾难发生后立即恢复网络/通信。挑战2名为‘智能社区互联网’，重点是利用现有市政基础设施的低成本解决方案，没有光纤等无处不在的专用网络接入，通过Wi-Fi实现无处不在的无线接入，支持每个连接用户的高带宽数据传输。

In the event of a natural disaster, reliable wireless connectivity is not only of tremendous benefit for victims in search of resources, loved ones, and reliable information; it can save lives. The NSF Advanced Wireless Communities Open Innovation Challenge (the Challenge), administered in collaboration with Mozilla, advances both the progress of science as well as national health and welfare. The Challenge will seek innovative, low-cost solutions to provide critical Internet services, such as navigation, localization, social networking, messaging services, directory services, voice calling, access to knowledge databases that address life-saving connectivity in the aftermath of disaster or where none is available. Selected solutions will be easily scalable for immediate potential impacts on civil society, and will nurture partnerships between academia and industry that can speed promising research into practice. Winning solutions will incorporate Mozilla open standard practices and values, including: (1) open platform application process, and solutions with openly licensed code and content; (2) decentralized solutions that are inter-operable, based on open standards and allow for seamless flow and transfer of information and content; (3) digital inclusion and web literacy: winning solutions speak to increasing access to and knowledge of the Web.Researchers, software engineers, entrepreneurs and others are invited to compete for $2 million in prize awards for best solutions to two challenge questions, each comprised of two stages. Stage One involves a broad quest for creativity and innovation with an allotted six months to develop applications and submit for judging and prize awards. Stage One winners, or those with exceptional concepts, move to Stage Two and again have six months to develop and submit applications for prize awards. Competition winners will showcase potential technology solutions in Washington, D.C. in June 2018. Challenge 1, titled 'Off-The-Grid Internet', focuses on affordable and practical solutions that will restore networking/communications in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Challenge 2, titled 'Smart Community Internet', focuses on low-cost solutions to utilize existing municipal infrastructure, with no pervasive dedicated network access such as fiber, for ubiquitous wireless access through Wi-Fi, supporting high-bandwidth data transfers for every connected user.