We are determined the journey leading to Telecom World ‘11, and the event itself, will lead to real and significant change. To achieve this aim, there are some important and exciting changes. These competitions are part of this change. They are designed to catalyze ideas, seed partnerships, and develop working prototypes to address real world [...]

5th Annual Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition Technology is constantly revolutionizing our world. Bold new ideas speed instantaneously online as portable devices such as smart phones and tablets connect us to people and resources across the globe in real-time. The way we communicate, work, and play in our daily lives has been transformed. But how [...]

MIT’s Climate CoLab “seeks to harness the collective intelligence of contributors from all over the world to address global climate change”. We’ve come across one proposal in particular that we’d like to share: “Fix the system not just the symptom“. Reshaping the whole economy is the kind of action needed to fix the whole system. [...]

World Challenge 2011 is a competition organised by BBC World News and Newsweek, aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grassroots level. We want to hear from our viewers about the social entrepreneurs who are making a difference without costing the earth. It [...]

The Possible Futures Film Contest is a bold new film event challenging storytellers of the world to create a new vision for the future of humanity — one that will become defined by our relationships to human justice, environmental sustainability, peace and individual fulfillment. These stories on film, from citizens of the world, have the [...]

Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, Replace, Return What? A design competition. The theme of this year’s competition is using solid board materials from FSC certified sources and suppliers. For whom? Anybody over the age of 18! Until when? The deadline for participants to submit their final design entry is 20 October 2011. Prizes: Three finalists in each [...]

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, WWF has launched the My True Nature competition! What? A creative multimedia competition for young people For whom? 7 to 16-year-olds living in the UK Until when? Friday, 9 September 2011 at 12h00 Prizes: The winners in each of the five categories will receive an iPod Touch. And 50 artworks [...]

The car, truck and bus makers in Europe have together opened a campaign to invite young adults across Europe to share their ideas and thoughts about the future of transport and mobility. “Our Future Mobility Now” seeks to give today’s young people a voice about how to move people and goods in an increasingly fast-paced, [...]

Deadline: 11 March 2011 Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, YouthActionNet seeks 20 outstanding young social entrepreneurs for its Global Fellowship program. The Fellowship recognizes youth, ages 18 to 29, for starting innovative projects to help their communities. The yearlong Fellowship includes: a seven-day leadership retreat focused on dynamic peer-to-peer learning; recognition at the Annual YouthActionNet® [...]

Endless growth is not sustainable by Dick Smith I am announcing Dick Smith’s Wilberforce Award – $1 million to go to a young person under 30 who can impress me by becoming famous through his or her ability to show leadership in communicating an alternative to our population and consumption growth-obsessed economy. I will be [...]