The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.
It attracts bold, visionary, tangible initiatives focused on a well-defined need of critical importance. Winning solutions are regionally specific yet globally applicable and present a truly comprehensive, anticipatory, integrated approach to solving the world’s complex problems.
Benefits for winners and participants of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge:
The Winner (individual or team) will receive a $100,000 cash prize to support the on-going development and implementation of their winning solution
Additional benefits conferred to the winning entry include:
- Round trip airfare for the team leader or representative (accommodations included) to receive the prize at a ceremony to which the press and guests will be invited.
- The OmniOculi sculpture created for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge by artist Tom Shannon.
- Opportunities to present winning work at events organized by the Buckminster Fuller Institute in the United States and abroad, subject to funding.
- Opportunities to present winning work to the international press.
- Exposure of winning work through the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s outreach programs.
- Buckminster Fuller Challenge website, Idea Index and The Buckminster Fuller Institute’s website.
The finalists in the Challenge will receive:
- Opportunities to present winning work at events organized by the Buckminster Fuller Institute in the United States and abroad, subject to funding.
- Opportunities to present winning work to the international press.
- Exposure of winning work through the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s outreach programs.
- Buckminster Fuller Challenge website, Idea Index and The Buckminster Fuller Institute’s website.
The semi-finalists in the Challenge will receive:
- Featured recognition of work through the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s outreach programs.
- Presentation of work in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Idea Index.
The participants who ‘opt-in’ and whose entries meet the criteria will have their work featured in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Idea Index. Entries to the Challenge will not be published in the Idea Index until the selection process has been completed.
The deadline to participate in the competition is 4 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Every year we wait for the monsoon season to come and beat the heat of summer’s spell. The lovely rains that blossoms the trees and lightens up the atmosphere, the wonderful weather where romanticism revolves in the air for 2 months atleast. It’s altogether a lovely feeling throughout July and August.
But all of a sudden, this year’s monsoon actually brought sadness over the faces; it became a wrath of God. Every single province in Pakistan got traumatized due to the rains. As this year’s rain brought in a huge Flood, shattering houses, taking away lots of lives. From the top to the bottom, Pakistan is all under water. Killing Water!
What is happening? Such destruction? So much rain that not even dams can stop them? Did our Meteorological department know about such heavy rain falls and disaster caused by it? Was our irrigation department prepared? Did our ecological department plan about it? Did people have any idea how worse it can be? Did people prepare? Did people get time to think over it and prepare?
Obviously there is no answer.
The rains started, the sewerage system got occupied. People started running towards their home to take their families to a place where it’s not raining heavily. They are on their way to other cities/areas, the bridges collapsed, roads broke into pieces. Even the mountains loosen up, huge rocks started to fell on causing road blocks. One to another, people got caught into problems, where there was No way out.
The people who went on holidays, vacations, honeymoons etc got trapped in the beautiful northern areas of Pakistan. Up on the hills, where there is no food, water, access to any store; they are stuck up in their own realm of problems. Where helicopters and government officials will have to go there to help them but due to heavy rains, they couldn’t go there even. It’s a distressing & painful state.
The flood started from Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, entering Sindh via Baluchistan and parts of Punjab.
As always our Forces are always there to take care of us, to protect us and save our lives. Army along with Air Force and Navy rescued many affected people but still several died and drowned in the water. Still Navy and its Commandos are trying to save lives in flooded areas of Sindh, though it just entered Sindh but created a mess there too.
Prediction is that this situation will calm down by mid August 2010 but will not end until September.
But one must appreciate the spirit of Pakistanis; everybody is there to help their native brothers and sisters. People are collecting & providing clothes, money, medicines, food etc all what they can think of, to the camps created by Armed Forces in different localities, as people cannot return to their homes due to no electricity, gas and major necessities of life.
Electric supply, Gas and all such pipelines were closed to avoid fire and current in water, which could have lead to several deaths. Already a great number of people have already died within a week’s time.
Well, one can take preventive measures always. People should avoid travelling, whether it is through any mode. People should store lots of food & medicines in their home. But then again, can one stop flood coming into their homes? Gosh NO!
Although these Disasters being Natural are not without Human Involvement!
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This is a humanitarian crisis, and one should really not consider the nationality of the families dieing due to such a crisis. It is so unfortunate that people are considering nationalities when giving aid to individuals including little children. I think this is an opportunity for people, regardless of race, religion or color, to unite.
SWO is working in effected areas of Sindh from the first day with its team of Doctors and Caregivers but we need help, we urgently need following items:
1. Mosquito nets.
2. Snake Bite Injections.
3. Food stuff.
4. Tents.
5. Drinking Water.
6. US Dollars 70000
We are looking towards International Community for their support and help. Remember, God loves those who love humanity.
“I will never forget the destruction and suffering I have witnessed today. In the past I have witnessed many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this.” – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Sincerely yours,
Mehtab Qureshi
President
Saharo Welfare Organization (Regd)
I have the answer. it is in the human heart. My proposal will soon be out with the details of dealing with the challenges facing not only humanity but the whole of the universe. Thanks for your patience
Notre Coopérative ECOOKAL dans les territoires de Fizi et d’Uvira (à l’Est de la R. D. Congo, au Sud Kivu) est vivement intéresé par ce genre d’orpportunité pour pouvoir accompagner techniquement et financierement nos membres dans leurs activités de la lutte contre la pauvreté et de la protection de l’environnement dans un pays qui connu beaucoup des perturbations. Nous serions très heureux d’etre aligner dans ce genre de financement.
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Our Cooperative ECOOKAL in the territories of Fizi and Uvira (in eastern DR Congo, South Kivu) is strongly Services interested in this kind of order orpportunité technically and financially assist our members in their fight against poverty and protecting the environment in a country that experienced a lot of disruption. We would be very pleased to be aligned in such financing.
Bonjour,
je prends connaissance de l’annonce et pense que la RDCongo confrontée à multiples problemes humanitaires doit bénéficier de stratrégies appropprriées pour redresser les crises humanitaires.Mon organisation UTMCADE est l’un des acteurs de ce relevement humanitaire.
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I am aware of the ad and think that the DRC faces many problems should benefit from humanitarian stratrégies appropprriées to address crises humanitaires.Mon UTMCADE organization is one of the bearing humanitarian actors.
Thanks for all that you do to provide sources for funding, iam requesting that you provide me with funding orpportunities for Lower Local Governments in which Uganda local Governments can be supported.