Challenge:Future :: Youth Rulz!

The men and women running the planet have, with some exceptions, very short-term vision, when in fact the really dramatic challenges the planet is facing are long-term. How do we deepen youth’s role in society? How can youth not only connect with older generation of current leaders, but indeed have an impact, so that the planet that they will be living in and having their children in future will not be too irreversibly damaged, too unstable climatically, and not too unequal and injustice?

For the First Round of the competition, your team’s challenge is to propose an original idea that re-invents the Future of Youth In Society. Acceptable ideas include:

    * A new policy, new law, new regulation,
    * A new partnership, organization,
    * A new collaborative network,
    * A new product or service, or a new way of using existing products
    * New services, networks, projects or initiatives.

Imagined as a multi-year open innovation competition, each year Challenge: Future focuses on one specific theme, a universal challenge to be re-imagined and re-invented. We are delighted to announce that the theme of the inaugural 2009-2010 academic year is the Future of Connecting.