The IFRC is the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The competition's three themes are: Digital Risks, Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS), and Exploring possible futures.
The competition closes 25 August 2024 at midnight CEST.
Description
The IFRC Solferino Academy and the ICRC Foresight team want you to travel into possible futures to explore the potential humanitarian impact of autonomous weapons systems and emerging digital risks.
How might these advances in technology alter the world around us? What new vulnerabilities might they create? Who might benefit and who might suffer as new tools, services and social shifts change the nature of crises, conflict and our communities, and the way we respond to humanitarian needs?
Your challenge is to develop your own future scenarios and then create an imagined product or service from that future. What kind of devices, gadgets, tools, toys, foods, clothes, personal care, transport, services or social movements might exist in this future as the world responds and adapts to new digital risks, and what do these products tell us about the world that created it?
Imagining the products and services humans might create to survive and thrive in that world could help us understand possible futures and sharpen our decisions today.
Get creative. We welcome everything from imagined product design to a business pitch, advertising campaigns, TV shows or news stories from the future, to a multimedia window into the world that uses the products and services you imagine.
Prize
Up to five grand-prize winners will be flown to Geneva to present their imagined future products or services at the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IC34). Alongside this, the judge’s favourite thought-provoking work will be showcased in an interactive exhibition and across our digital channels.
We will choose the best entries and then help you bring them to life by manufacturing models, transporting items if you prefer to build your own artefact, or sharing digital entries. Your speculative concepts will reach thousands of humanitarian and government leaders from all around the world. We will also promote your work globally through our digital channels.