Open Innovation Resources

Executive Memos and Directives and Other Federal Resources

• American Innovation and Competiveness Act (AICA)
• CDC Health Information Innovation Consortium (CHIIC)
• HHS Open Government Plan
• OMB Open Government
  • Challenges and Prizes
• US Government Accountability Office (US GAO) Report to Congressional Committees – Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

• Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science at the CDC
• White House Memo to report Citizen Science
• CitizenScience.gov
• Other Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science websites
  • Citizen Science Association
  • SciStarter
  • CitSci.org

Human Centered Design Training

• Stanford d.school’s Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking (free video tutorial)
• IDEO.ORG’s Field Guide to Human Centered Design (free download)
• +ACUMEN’s Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design (free online course—check for future dates)
• Entrepreneurial design principles and methods (free online course)
• HHS Idea Lab (HHS Ignite) (for DHHS employees)
• Office of Personnel Management’s Fundamentals of Human-Centered Design

Funding Opportunities

• CDC SBIR
• NIH/CDC/FDA SBIR
• HHS Idea Lab (HHS Innovates) and HHS Ventures (for DHHS employees)
• CDC Innovation Fund (intramural funds for CDC Employees)