Enter the Challenge
| Very soon we’ll be announcing our GeoVation Challenges for 2012 and calling for entrepreneurs, developers and community groups to focus their efforts to address two distinct challenges.
You can see who won our previous challenges on the winners page. |
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How does the GeoVation Challenge Programme work?
The GeoVation Challenge process works like this:
1. Think of an idea that may help address the current GeoVation Challenge question. Look at the problem statements to help you address this. Your idea will be specific to the social need framed by the current GeoVation Challenge, and geography will be central to its implementation. It must be innovative in that you are trying to implement something that will make a difference.
2. Post your idea. Register for the Challenge online and you can then submit your idea relating to the challenge theme posted on the website. By registering on the site you can:
- Setup your profile, describing your background, motivation, skills you offer and skills you are looking for
- Post ideas, comment on and rate others ideas
- Connect with people that share the same passions as you?
- Collaborate on with other GeoVators to identify and meet needs
- Create new and exciting solutions and ventures using geography
These questions may help you submit your idea
- What problem are you solving?
- Who are you solving it for?
- How painful is this problem for them?
- How is this problem currently solved? – The Competition (there always is some!)
- What ideas have already been submitted?
3. Ideas will be selected by GeoVation appointed independent judges and stakeholders in terms of their potential to create social and environmental value using geography and most suitable to develop at the next GeoVation Camp. These will be published online. Selection criteria will be based upon the objective of the Challenge, to support innovative and sustainable ventures utilising geography for social or environmental benefit.
4. We need you all to make the ideas a success. Even if you don’t submit an idea, or your idea is not picked we need you to get involved. A whole range of skills is required to make an idea work, from designers to web developers, social entrepreneurs, to community leaders. You can update your profile to let us know what skills you can offer and what interests you. We will post details of how to join the weekend GeoVation Camp.
5. Pitch your idea prototype at GeoVation Camp. The aim at the end of the weekend is that you are part of a team that has developed a selected idea into a prototyped basic working model of a new venture. See feedback from previous GeoVation Camps. During the weekend GeoVation camp you can:
- Clarify and test the need your idea addresses on stakeholders and potential end users
- Identify how to overcome the challenges in implementing your idea
- Explore the enterprise model that will sustain your idea once implemented
- Identify the skills, resources and support needed to implement your idea
- Develop and pitch your idea and brief implementation plan
- Identify other organisations and individuals you could work with to develop the idea further
We will post more about GeoVation Camp here.
At the end of the GeoVation Camp finalists (including for best use of OS OpenData) will be selected and invited to attend a GeoVation Challenge Awards Showcase (date to be announced).
GeoVation aims to provide support, if required; to help you get your venture going in terms of identifying the skills, relationships and contacts you may need.
6. GeoVation Challenge Awards Showcase
The finalists from each of the GeoVation Challenges run throughout 2012 will be invited to attend the GeoVation Challenge Awards Showcase. Here participants will be invited to submit their venture plan and pitch to an independent judging panel at the Showcase, for the chance to win a share of funding to implement their idea. There will be an award for best use of OS OpenData and a “community” award voted for by the attending audience at the GeoVation Showcase. GeoVation Challenge Award winners will be offered support to help implement their plan, where possible.
Other awards may be introduced associated with all, or specific challenges.
| Dates for GeoVation Challenge Programme 2012 | |
| Challenge 1 TBA |
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| Dates to be announced (12:00 noon) | Call for ideas. |
| Ideas selected for GeoVation Camp and notified | |
| Selected ideas posted. Registration for camp | |
| GeoVation Camp | |
| Challenge 2. TBA |
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| Dates to be announced | Call for ideas. |
| Ideas selected for GeoVation Camp and notified | |
| Selected ideas posted. Registration for camp | |
| GeoVation Camp, Southampton | |
| GeoVation Challenge Awards Showcase |
As always if you have any comments, ideas or random thoughts get in touch at champions@geovation.org.uk
Happy GeoVating!
Themocracy
Hello, Will you be tweeting your Geovation challenges, so I can keep up to date? Otherwise, I’ll just check the website from time to time.
Thank you.
KB.
Hi Keren
Thanks for your interest in the GeoVation Challenge. Yes we will be tweeting the challenges and updates on the ideas posted, but keep visiting the site and http://www.geovation.org.uk/challenge/ as well.
The Geovation Team
Great idea. look forward to seeing the solutions that come forward.
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I’ve got a brilliant idea how to improve transport in the UK and save £30,000,000.00 Thirty Billion Pounds.
All you have to do is to cancel HS2 tomorrow. On Wednesday, the day after, you could start to electrify the whole of the rail network and upgrade existing tracks and stations.
And you can add my prize money to the budget to do it! Hoorah!
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Brilliant site thank you – You really got me thinking and I’ll definitely be bookmarking your blog and recommending it to colleagues. Do you have a newsletter that I could subscribe to in order to find out more? Thank you again and keep up the good work!
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoy it. In the New Year we will be launching a new challenge and platform – you will be able to register there if you want to get news from GeoVation.
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