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Re:List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary ... by gedrap on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @05:25AM (#9537727)
>>> Create free Android apps to spread reading, writing, and arithmetic skills, and prove their effectiveness over an 18-month period in African pilot communities.

5 prizes of $1M and a grand prize of $10M. That seems quite viable for the HN crowd. However, this is rather subjective compared to other problems. Many other problems are more like true/false.

Still, that's quite interesting and an app, designed for learning, with heavy optimizations on UX seems like a very commercially viable product. Given you have to do the skills of enterprise sales :)

Re:List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary ... by ximeng on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @06:24AM (#9537908)
"Registration closed" on that website