The US Bureau of Reclamation recently awarded $20,000 to four submissions that could help move migrating juvenile fish past tall dams, essential for ensuring the habitat connectivity that many threatened and endangered fish populations need to survive and reproduce. 

The second and final phase of the NIH Follow that Cell Challenge, which was run in partnership with InnoCentive, concluded last month. Over the two phases that ran between 2014 and 2017, nearly $500,000 in prize money was awarded to Solvers for their work in developing new tools and methods for predicting the behavior and function of a single cell in complex tissue over time. 

In this article, we explore some of the key questions to consider when selecting a provider for external crowdsourcing.