FCC App challenge

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The FCC has initiated a challenge to app developers to help them create a new app to protect the open internet. :

The FCC challenges researchers and software developers to engage in research to produce research and create apps that help consumers foster, measure, and protect Internet openness...

...The FCC challenges individuals or teams of researchers, inventors and software developers to produce research and create apps that empower consumers to monitor and protect Internet openness. With this challenge, the FCC seeks to encourage and facilitate the development and use of open Internet software tools, both fixed and mobile, as well as research on relevant open Internet measurement results, methods, techniques and approaches.
(For more information about Internet openness, see www.openinternet.gov)

The winners of the Open Internet Challenge will be invited to FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, to present their work to the Commission and to be honored with an FCC Chairman’s reception. Winning apps and research will be featured on the FCC’s website and social media outlets. Winners will be reimbursed for authorized travel expenses......

...Open Internet Challenge seeks to encourage the development of new, more effective applications that provide users with information about the extent to which their fixed or mobile broadband Internet services are consistent with open Internet principles. These software tools could, for example, detect whether a broadband provider is interfering with DNS responses, application packet headers, or content.
These applications should also collect anonoymized data that can be used for network research and analysis of patterns and trends in Internet openness.
One popular platform for Internet software tools is Measurement Lab (M-Lab), “an open, distributed server platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools.” Those interested in running their software tools on the M-Lab platform should contact the M-Lab steering committee, which coordinates research on the M-Lab platform.


OPEN INTERNET RESEARCH CHALLENGE
This challenge also seeks novel and innovative research papers that analyze relevant Internet openness measurement techniques, approaches, and data. Research on Internet openness can improve policy making and advance Internet transparency, which helps to sustain a healthy Internet. The research must be new or recent and directly involve open Internet principles. For example such research may illuminate how widely fixed and mobile broadband providers observe the FCC’s open Internet principles, or how advanced network services can be provided in a way that adheres to open Internet principles...

Important dates

Submission Period:
Start: Feb 01, 2011 12:00 AM EST End: Jun 01, 2011 11:59 PM EDT
Judging Period:
Start: Jun 15, 2011 12:00 AM EDT End: Jul 15, 2011 11:59 PM EDT
Public Voting Period:
Start: Jun 15, 2011 12:00 AM EDT End: Jul 15, 2011 11:59 PM EDT
Winners announced:
Aug 08, 2011 12:00 AM EDT

Full article:

http://challenge.gov/FCC/114-fcc-open-internet-apps-challenge