Fighting global depression with collaboration, cooperation, and crowdsourcing
What is the Uplift the Web Challenge?
The challenge’s purpose is to find and evaluate short, scalable ideas to help people who struggle with depression.
Why did teams contribute ideas?
Contributors join a collective effort to address a pressing problem in today’s world. They also have the opportunity to win prizes and be co-authors in published research.
How did people participate?
We designed the submission process for this challenge to be accessible to all – whether or not they had experience with creating online interventions.
Who organized the challenge?
Northwestern’s Lab for Scalable Mental Health, with help from the Polarization and Social Change lab at Stanford University
