1) Read about BBCWorld Down to Business Competition and answer the questions below:
- What kind of businesses does World Challenge competition target?
- What is a sustainable business?
- What is the mission of the competition?
2) Read about the competition rules - what are the 4 criteria used by Judges to select the Shortlist, based on the information provided in the nomination?
3) Read and watch about three winning projects. Which one do you like best? Write a short 200 word summary about the project and explain why you chose it.
- The Only Way is Up
- Tech Crunch
- Mongolia's Snow Leopard Enterprise
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ReplyDelete- What kind of businesses does World Challenge competition target?
World Challenge competition target sustainable businesses.
- What is a sustainable business?
A sustainable business is any organization that participates in environmentally friendly or green activities to ensure that all processes, products, and manufacturing activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit. It has no negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy
- What is the mission of the competition?
The mission is to provide practical help for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the world, with a special emphasis on turning sustainable ideas from niche businesses into mainstream enterprises.
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ReplyDeleteThe criteria used to select the Shortlist, based on the information provided in the nomination, are :
• Innovative projects or ideas that demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit working for the benefit of the community whilst adopting a responsible approach.
• A project that shows initiative, the innovative use of technology or an invention
• Small business projects that increase investment into the local community.
• Projects that take a responsible approach to the environment in which they are operating
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ReplyDeleteThe project I chose is called “The only way is Up” because I think the problem that is described there is very actual nowadays, even if we live in XXI century.
It is a pity that in such a world, full of computerized systems, technologies and high development, people from over 170 upland villages have known just now what means comfort and an easier access to the water.
The video is about the Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc. (AIDFI). Using the power of a river's flow to literally push water uphill without any other energy input, it's proving to be a boon for poor villagers living in mountainous regions. The ram pump can save both hours of back-breaking work carrying water and cash where expensive water pumps are replaced. Also AIDFI has plans to spread the benefits far and wide among poor communities.
What impressed me is that it didn’t need an expensive hydraulic ram pump, to achieve the thousand citizen’s dream, but just an ingenious idea that deserve to be a winner project, because it helped a lot of villages. A lot of people needed this change and don’t even pay for electricity or fuel because ram pumps uses the power of the water, and they gain a lot.
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ReplyDelete- What kind of businesses does World Challenge competition target?
The World Challenge competition targets the sustainable businesses.
- What is a sustainable business?
A sustainable business is any organization that participates in environmentally friendly or green activities to ensure that all processes, products, and manufacturing activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit.
- What is the mission of the competition?
The mission is to provide practical help for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the world, with a special emphasis on turning sustainable ideas from niche businesses into mainstream enterprises.
2. What are the 4 criteria used by Judges to select the Shortlist, based on the information provided in the nomination?
1. The project should have a big potentially impact on the environment, on communities, on technology and have innovation within.
2. The project intends to help their local community.
3. The project is positive for the environment in all kinds of ways whether it is in food, or related to pollution.
4. Projects which are innovative in the way that people relate to the naturally environment, or innovative piece of technology. Also, they are looking for new ways of thinking and new ways of tackling the challenges ahead.
3. Read and watch about three winning projects. Which one do you like best? Write a short 200 word summary about the project and explain why you chose it.
I choose the project “Tech Crunch”. The technology, nowadays, is changing very quickly and it is a problem what to do with the oldest one. I think the idea of recycling the chemicals and rare metals inside the laptops and phones, which are particularly harmful, is very good and can be implemented in every country and it will reduce the influence of the technology on the environment, which is very important, and, also, it will reduce the waste of precious resources that can be replaced through fresh mining. It is an easy solution for a big problem that saves money of the producers of these technologies. At the same time every of us is throwing away all this stuff instead of giving them into a specialized place, where these are dismantled and separated into recyclable materials and toxic waste that can be disposed of safely, that will increase the investment, the more people will want to buy new things because they will know what to do with the old ones. This project of the innovative use of technology is going to be sustainable after the grant’s period runs out, because every of us understand the importance of recycling and its positive aspect.
1) Read about BBCWorld Down to Business Competition and answer the questions below:
ReplyDelete- What kind of businesses does World Challenge competition target?
World Challenge competition target sustainable businesses.
- What is a sustainable business?
A sustainable business is any organization that participates in environmentally friendly or green activities to ensure that all processes, products, and manufacturing activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit. It has no negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy.
- What is the mission of the competition?
The mission is to provide practical help for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the world, with a special emphasis on turning sustainable ideas from niche businesses into mainstream enterprises.
2) Read about the competition rules - what are the 4 criteria used by Judges to select the Shortlist, based on the information provided in the nomination?
I. Innovative projects or ideas that demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit working for the benefit of the community whilst adopting a responsible approach.
II. A project that shows initiative, the innovative use of technology or an invention
III. Small business projects that increase investment into the local community.
IV. Projects that take a responsible approach to the environment in which they are operating.
3) Read and watch about three winning projects. Which one do you like best? Write a short 200 word summary about the project and explain why you chose it.
- The Only Way is Up
- Tech Crunch
- Mongolia's Snow Leopard Enterprise
From my opinion, a reasonable choice it may be the project “Tech Crunch”. Safely disposing of E-waste from broken computers and other outmoded electronic gadgets is becoming a bigger problem as the world becomes ever more wired. Some chemicals and rare metals inside the electronics are very harmful to the environment and recycling them it will be a good choice, because we save some money and do not harm the environment. Also, the details may be separated into recyclable and dangerous ones in order to use the good details in new technologies. 'Recycla' is the first and only electronic waste recycling social enterprise in Latin America. The company aims to tackle the problem of the eight million mobile phones and one million computers that are discarded in Chile annually. This project may help to increase the economic activity of the country by gaining some money for other important activities.
1.What kind of businesses does World Challenge competition target?
ReplyDeleteWorld Challenge competition target sustainable businesses.
2.What is a sustainable business?
A sustainable business is any organization that participates in environmentally friendly or green activities to ensure that all processes, products, and manufacturing activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit.
3.What is the mission of the competition?
The mission is to provide practical help for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the world, with a special emphasis on turning sustainable ideas from niche businesses into mainstream enterprises.
4.What are the 4 criteria used by Judges to select the Shortlist, based on the information provided in the nomination?
Small business projects that increase investment into the local community.
Projects that take a responsible approach to the environment in which they are operating.
The project is positive for the environment in all kinds of ways whether it is in food, or related to pollution.
A project that shows initiative, the innovative use of technology or an invention.