U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
recognizes that after disasters occur, people use Facebook to share information
and keep friends and family up to date. The agency is hoping to help enhance
that practice and also give people tools to help them prepare in the first
place. To that end, DHHS is sponsoring a contest to create new Facebook apps
that would help people prepare for and seek help following an emergency.
The contest ends on Nov. 4, 2011, and the winner will
receive $10,000 from DHHS, free admission to the 2012 Health 2.0 conference and
will be invited to a DHHS event. Second place will receive $5,000 and third
place receives $1,000.