Category Description
This award recognised the potential of Artificial Intelligence to boost human wellbeing and help meet major societal and environmental challenges – while at the same time not ignoring its potential for harm.
Successful entrants will demonstrate AI’s proven potential for progress in one or more areas, including health, climate and environment, education, development and poverty alleviation, and financial inclusion. The activities will either have been developed, or made significant progress between 2021-23.
Judges will consider efforts to bring AI under public / democratic control, and to avoid any negative impacts associated with its implementation.
We request a total word count of 1500 words +/-10% (excl. supporting docs). Any confidential data will be treated as such and only shared with the judging panel.
Criteria
Judges will be looking for evidence of the following points within the supplied application form (weighting percentages in brackets):
- Evidence of successful application of AI to a specific social / environmental challenge(s), with clear measurable impacts (40%)
- Evidence of clear potential to extend application more widely / to other areas and sectors (30%)
- Evidence of steps taken to ensure widest possible inclusion / involvement of beneficiaries and wider society in shaping its development and application; degree of transparency and accessibility to democratic control (30%)
PLEASE NOTE: The criteria above are different to the questions in the application form. You will need to follow the application questions; cross-referencing these with the criteria to ensure you’ve captured them within your application. The criteria are followed by the judges in order to compare all entries in each category like-for-like, Please ensure you register / login to AwardStage (Opens 1st Feb), select the category and export a PDF copy of the questions. Some category application questions differ. The application questions will be available four weeks before entries open, so if you wish to get them ahead of time please email us.
Are we eligible to enter?
Our awards programme is open to all organisations of any kind… companies large and small, charities, not-for-profits, social enterprises, NGOs, membership and accreditation organisations and government departments including local and county councils. We are all about rewarding sustainability practice – in all its forms. So if your organisation is making a difference, directly or indirectly to people and planet, you’re eligible.
We don’t just recognise businesses that are operating responsibly, or supporting / partnering with worthwhile causes. We also actively encourage entries from organisations that have been specifically set up or adapted to offer a product or service that tackles a social or environmental problem.
Our category descriptions and criteria have been written to guide entrants on what content should be detailed in their entries. However, we do not expect square pegs to fit in round holes… Some of your business activities or dedicated programmes might not fit entirely with any one specific category. In these cases, the descriptions and criteria are open to an element of interpretation and rest assured that our judges will still take into account entries that are strongly aligned with the overall context of the category.
If you have any concerns about the suitability of your entry, or would like to discuss your activities in more detail, we are here to help. Give Karen a call on 07813 718541 or email us.