Using Public Data for Cancer Prevention and Control: From Innovation to Impact

In order for an entry to be eligible to win this Challenge, it must meet the following requirements:

To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge, an individual or entity shall have complied with all the requirements under this section.

An individual or entity shall not be deemed ineligible because the individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made available to all individuals and entities participating in the competition on an equitable basis.

This Challenge is open to any Contestant, defined as 1) an individual or team of U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States who are 13 years of age and over (with the permission of a parent/guardian if under 18 years of age), or 2) an entity incorporated in and maintaining a primary place of business in the United States. Foreign citizens can participate as employees of an entity that is properly incorporated in the U.S. and maintains a primary place of business in the U.S. Contestants may submit more than one entry, e.g., if they have developed more than one app. Eligibility for Phase II is conditional upon being selected as a Phase I finalist. Eligibility for a prize award is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. NCI will not select as a Finalist or Winner an individual or entity that is currently on the Excluded Parties List (https://www.epls.gov/).

A Federal entity or Federal employee acting within the scope of his or her employment is not eligible to participate. Federal employees seeking to participate in this contest outside the scope of their employment should consult their ethics official prior to developing their submission. Employees of the NCI and the advisors or any other company or individual involved with the design, production, execution, or distribution of the Challenge and their immediate family (spouse, parents and step-parents, siblings and step-siblings, and children and step-children) and household members (people who share the same residence at least three (3) months out of the year) are not eligible to participate.

Regarding Liability and Indemnification, by participating in this competition, Contestants agree to assume any and all risks and waive claims against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or consequential, arising from participation in this prize contest, whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or otherwise. By participating in this competition, Contestants agree to indemnify the Federal Government against third party claims for damages arising from or related to competition activities.

Regarding Insurance, based on the subject matter of the contest, the type of work that it will possibly require, as well as an analysis of the likelihood of any claims for death, bodily injury, or property damage, or loss potentially resulting from contest participation, Contestants are not required to obtain liability insurance or demonstrate financial responsibility in order to participate in this contest.

Regarding Copyright/Intellectual Property - Original Work:  Upon submission, each Contestant warrants that he or she is the sole author and owner of the Submission, that the Submission is wholly original with the Contestant (or is an improved version of an existing app that the Contestant has sufficient rights to use – including the substantial improvement of existing open-source apps) and that it does not infringe any copyright or any other rights of any third party of which Contestant is aware. Each Contestant also warrants that the app is free of malware.  In addition to complying with appropriate policies, procedures, and protections for data that ensures all privacy requirements, intellectual property considerations, and institutional/sponsor restrictions are met, use of publicly-available data obtained from NCI and other Federal partners should not allow the identification of an individual human subject from whom NCI and other Federal partners obtained such data.

Submission Rights: By participating in this contest, each Contestant grants to the NCI an irrevocable, paid-up, royalty-free nonexclusive worldwide license to post, link to, share, and display publicly the app on the Web, for the purpose of the Challenge, during the duration of the Challenge and for a period of one year following announcement of the winners. All Contestants will retain all other intellectual property rights in their Submissions.

Regarding Registration Process for Participants, interested persons should read the Official Rules (also posted on Challenge.gov) and register at the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge portal: http://www.health2challenge.org/. Registration is free and can be completed anytime during the Phase I App Submission Period, July 20 to August 26, 2011.

Compliance with Rules and Contacting Challenge Winners

Finalists and the Challenge Winners must comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements contained herein. The Phase I finalists will be notified by email, telephone, or mail after the date of the evaluation. Awards may be subject to Federal income taxes, and the Department of Health and Human Services will comply with the Internal Revenue Service withholding and reporting requirements, where applicable.

Privacy

If Contestants choose to provide the NCI with personal information by registering or filling out the submission form through the Challenge Web site (http://www.health2challenge.org/), that information is used to respond to Contestants in matters regarding their submission, announcements of entrants, finalists, and winners of the Challenge, related to promotion of the Challenge – unless Contestants choose to receive updates or notifications about other competitions from the NCI on an opt-in basis. Information is not collected for commercial marketing. Winners are permitted to cite that they won this contest.

General Conditions

The NCI reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify the Competition, or any part of it, for any reason, at NCI’s sole discretion.

Participation in this Challenge constitutes a contestant's full and unconditional agreement to abide by the Challenge’s Official Rules found at www.Challenge.gov and http://www.health2challenge.org/.