XPRIZE FOUNDATION

Building a platform for competitive innovation

We created a custom platform to host the XPRIZE Foundation’s $7 million contest for promoting universal literacy

before

Innovation catalyst the XPRIZE Foundation had begun planning a new competition to promote adult literacy
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Needed tech infrastructure to communicate with competitors, track entry efficacy, and synthesize data for evaluation

after

A mobile app built to facilitate communication, resource transfer, and tracking of contest competitors and their submissions
A flexible analytics-focused SDK designed for easy incorporation into competitors’ prototypes
An analytics setup primed to receive data from the SDK-integrated entries, enabling performance comparisons for judging

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before

Inspiring big breakthroughs

The XPRIZE Foundation designs incentivizes competitions to solve the great challenges of our time, inspiring innovations that are out of this world (sometimes literally!). Since 1994, the organization has spurred world-changing advancements in private space flight, environmental conservation, human health, and more. In 2018, when the foundation began work on a new 7 million dollar Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE, the organizers reached out to us for help creating the technical infrastructure to support it.

solution

Analytics with a side of SDK

By building a comprehensive analytics platform, Twenty Ideas monitors, synthesizes and reports usage across all the semi-finalists applications. Each semifinalist incorporated our custom SDK (software development kit) into their solution, enabling XPRIZE to collect relevant, realtime, and consistent information about its use and efficacy. This information contributed to a fair, efficient, evidence-based evaluation of prize contestants and was critical to ensuring that the prize funds would drive real-world results.