Challenge:Future :: Eat that Carrot!

Our bodies and minds are our ultimate connection channels, where happiness is as infectious as dreaded disease. Yet, the recent years of bird flues and swine scares show that it is disease, not happiness that seems to benefit from the deepening global interconnectedness.

As we look into the future, how do we create physical, mental, and emotional well-being, and connect ourselves and our bodies to the health of the planet? How do we mitigate the health risks of global connectivity and prevent global disease transmission?

For the First Round of the competition, the challenge is to propose an original idea that re-invents the Future of Health in a sustainable way. Acceptable ideas include:

    * A new product or service,
    * A new lifestyles,
    * A new way of using an existing product or service,
    * A new policy or procedure, or
    * A new collaborative network, partnership or project.

Imagined as a multi-year open innovation competition, each year Challenge: Future focuses on one specific theme, a universal challenge to be re-imagined and re-invented. We are delighted to announce that the theme of the inaugural 2009-2010 academic year is the Future of Connecting.