UNAWARDED CHALLENGES
Crowd-Solving is Remarkably Successful
Our process of humanitarian crowd-solving is remarkably effective. As of September 2024, 83% of the completed open-innovation public challenges advised by SeaFreight Labs awarded a prize to one or more winning Solvers. Award of a prize means that the Seeker was satisfied enough with one or more submissions to their challenge that they decided to pay money to acquire the rights to the winning ideas.
This 'success ratio' shows the value of skilled practioners and a time-tested process. Innovation is generally a high-failure activity with many losers and few winners. A process which usually delivers success in a repeatable way has tremendous potential value for organizations in need of new ways to innovate.
Our Few Unawarded Challenges Are Listed Below
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World Vision's third challenge sought to revolutionize how World Vision (and other NGOs) measure their progress on achieving universal latrine coverage: Efficient and Reliable Counting of Improved Latrines. The challenge solicited new (automated) ways to count the number of improved latrines in a community or region. Click HERE to visit the challenge.
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The challenge was open for submissions June-September 2021. It attracted 205 registered solvers. It received 48 submissions but none were deemed to be better than the current World Vision method of field visits every few years.
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World Vision's fourth challenge solicited invention of a new business model that could help World Vision multiply their planned 2021-2025 investment of US$1 billion in WAter, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) into up to US$5 billion. It was titled Leveraging Funds to Increase Investment in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. Click HERE to visit the challenge.
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The challenge was open for submissions July-September 2021. It attracted 253 registered solvers. It received 69 submissions but none proposed something the World Vision felt was new or would drive more resources to their work.
