Do you have an idea that can help the environment using technology?
Sony and WWF are on the hunt for smart, new ideas that use technology to solve environmental problems. From the use of smart grid tech to redesigning public transportation, there are currently over 300 ideas. You can check out the ‘inspirations’, leave comments and even enter an idea yourself. The ideas-generating part of the competition closes tomorrow, and concepting and evaluation will take place over the next two months. The winners will be announced in January.
If you’d like to find out more, visit Open Planet Ideas.
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
