Solutions Evaluation Criteria

Category	Description	Category weight
Impact – environmental sustainability	Does the solution address conservation of the natural resources such as materials, energy fuels, land, water, etc.? Does it enable protection of global ecosystems, health and wellbeing, now and in the future?	20
Impact – social sustainability	Does the solution address social well being of a community, an organisation or a country?	20
Impact – economic sustainability	Does the solution address efficient and responsible use of resources to enable an organisation or a country to operate in a long term sustainable manner while remaining economically viable?	20
Innovation	Does the solution employ a new approach, method, process, idea, etc.? or is it re-using / copying a well-established approach?	10
Data	Does the solution leverage data relevant to addressing the problem? Is the data publicly or commercially available? How well the data is used?	10
Architecture	Is the solution cost and energy efficient? e.g. is it using serverless technologies and optimised compute resources?	10
Path to operationalization	Does the solution include a description of operationalising and scaling the approach, so it can be deployed in real world?	10