Social Venture Hong Kong is seeking innovative social enterprise concepts from general for the Asia Social Innovation Award 2011 aimed at promoting the culture of social innovation and enriching people’s knowledge on social issues, and building a platform to encourage the sharing of ideas and experience among Asian cities, hoping to pathway for a sustainable development of social innovation culture in the region.
This Award is a first innovative social enterprise event in Asia to apply a simple and easy mechanism to engage the general public to participate in the discussion, and to deliver positive and concrete innovative solutions to tackle these problems.
Issues
It is hoped that this simple idea-generating competition calling for level-zero social innovation ideas will be able to attract the general public to take part. The issues on which concepts can be submitted include:
- Ageing Population
- Environment
- Poverty
Eligible Cities and Countries
List of qualified Asian countries/cities, subjected to the addition or removal of countries at the sole discretion of SVhk:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.
Criteria and Submission
Innovative ideas may be submitted using 200-500 words. You may also submit multimedia such as graphics or videos.
Criteria include originality, viability and sustainability of idea. Apart from imaginative and innovative ideas or concept, existing ideas are also welcome.
Award Details
- The winner of each social issue category will be awarded HK$ 2,000 (~US$250) each.
- There will be 3 winners from Asia cities, and 3 winners from Hong Kong.
- Asian winners will be invited to join the Award Presentation Ceremony in Hong Kong in late-November (24-27th November, 2011) with free accommodation and a free round-trip ticket from any Asian country to Hong Kong.
- Also, the “Best Multimedia Award” for the best idea presented in multimedia format among the Hong Kong entries (HK$ 2,000).
- Winning and selected ideas will be published on the Award website.
Last date for submission of entries from other Asian cities is October 16, 2011. Last date for submission of entries from Hong Kong is November 6, 2011
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