2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition
2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition
Rules of Entry and Eligibility:
The GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition is open to all eligible mobile industry and supporting industry companies – GSMA Members, Associate Members and non-members – for innovations as defined in the individual category eligibility descriptions.
All products, services, solutions, initiatives and innovations entered must be supportive of, or be deployed over the GSM family of mobile technologies e.g. GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA and/ or HSPA.
- There are multiple regional and virtual tournaments resulting in a single Mobile Innovation Global Champion to be announced at the MWC Global Mobile Awards Gala in February 2009
- Companies over $20m (US dollars) in revenue are excluded from entering the Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition.
- There are five categories in the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Awards Competition:
- Most Innovative Wireless Device-centric Technology
- Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or Platform
- Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service
- Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market
- Most Innovative "True Mobile Start Up"
- Must be less than less than $1M USD in annual revenues
- Must be a clear product, application, service concept, or idea relevant to the mobile industry
- All legal protections must already be engaged by entrant. The GSMA assumes no IP protection or risk
- Entrants in each regional competition will compete by submitting company and product information via an online product profile. All entries will be filtered down to a maximum of fifty (50) entrants based on entry completeness, random reference checks, payment, category fit, and alignment with GSMA initiatives (both published and unpublished) before being quantitatively scored by an expert judging panel representing the interests of MNO’s, Investors, and Vendor Partners, and Mobile Innovation Market and Marketplace sponsors and partners.
- Winners are selected by a judging panel at each tournament
- If an Innovator is selected as a winner from any region (Global Finalist), they will no longer be eligible to participate in another region until the following year – this is to prevent one company potentially winning all regions and being declared the overall winner by default.
- All regional winners (Global Finalists) will compete via a presentation to an expert judging panel representing the interests of MNO’s, Investors, and Vendor Partners, and sponsors. Judges will have access to previous quantitative rankings based on the award entry information provided at the time each innovator initially won their region. However, the final ranking and scoring will be qualitative based on the presentation to the judging panel.
All submissions for the Mobile Innovation Global Competition must include at least one of the following (except for the Mobile Innovation Global Awards category, "Most Innovative "True Mobile Start-Up"): a completed commercial trial or deployment of the product / service / technology by a GSMA Member or Associate Member, with reference contact details; or a suitable reference to demonstrate that the product/ service/ technology is commercially available. These references may be from operators or other appropriate entities globally.
Agreement. These Rules of Entry for the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Competition ("Rules") incorporate the Awards ("Terms") to which applicants have viewed and agreed to upon completing their award entry on www.mobileinnovation.org. The Terms shall govern in event of conflict with these Rules. In submitting an entry for the Awards, entrants agree to be bound by the Rules and Terms for the Global Competition.
Awards Deadline and Closing Date: The closing dates for entries to the Mobile Innovation Global Competition are final and entries submitted past the closing date will not qualify for entry into the competition. The final closing date for each tournament will be specified on the Mobile Innovation Market website and may be updated from time to time.
Entry Form Submission: Entries must be submitted online via the Mobile Innovation Awards Website, with credit card or international money transfer payment of the appropriate fee. Receipt by GSMA of the funds to meet the application fee and other fees required for entry into the competition is a pre-condition of entry.
Language: Only those entries submitted in the English language will be accepted into the competition. Any language other than English will be automatically disqualified
Entry Acknowledgement: GSMA will issue a confirmation of entry following receipt of the entry form and the requisite fees.
Entry Fees: One free submission ("entry") of an innovative product / service / solution for the Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition, in addition to full benefits of membership is included in the standard twelve (12) month membership package for the GSMA Mobile Innovation Market. Additional entries of innovations and/or entries to multiple categories will incur additional entry fee(s) of £400 per entry. There is no maximum number of entries permitted from a single organization; however a single organization is limited to a single membership. Entry fee rates are published at www.mobileinnovation.org and organizations submitting competition entries are responsible for ensuring that the appropriate fee is paid in a timely manner. Final payments must and payment arrangements must be received by the award entry deadline.
On-line payment with a credit card via PayPal is preferred. If you are unable to pay online via the PayPal payment authorization tool, please contact the GSMC Finance Department at +1.678.281.6624 or email MIPayments@gsm.org and a credit card authorization request form will be sent to you.
Award competition entry and Mobile Innovation Market membership will not be effective until full payment of all requisite fees have been made.
Additional Supporting Materials:
In addition to information completed on the online entry form, all entrants for the Mobile
Innovation Global Award Competition have the option to submit a multi-media presentation or document. By submitting any material pursuant to this section, entrants grant GSMA permission to utilize this material in promotions and other activities relating to Mobile Innovation Marketplace and the 2009 GSMA Mobile Innovation Award Competition. Notification will be sent prior to usage.
Judging Process:
Entries will be judged on the basis of the information provided to the independent judging panel including any additional supporting materials where required (see above).
Details of the judging panel deliberations will not be disclosed. No correspondence will be entered into by GSMA regarding validation or qualification of entries, judges' decisions or discussions. Judges recognize innovation comes in many forms and entries may be older applications with a new innovative manner of implementing a similar product, application, service, solution or technology.
| Weight | Criteria | Comments |
| 25% | Innovation and Originality Presented | |
| 10% | Level of MNO Engagement | |
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| 25% | Ease of deployment or integration into existing networks and/or upcoming devices | |
| Clear and demonstrable scalability and interoperability | minimum 1mm subs | |
| 20% | Clear and demonstrable consumer or customer benefits | in some cases, customer benefit may be an ROI play |
| Cost effectiveness and efficiency | minimum 1mm subs | |
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| 10% | User Experience | |
| 10% | Market impact potential (global) |
- Qualitative Judging Element
- The top award entrants will present in their regional Mobile Innovation Marketplace event, virtually or otherwise, to the selected regional judging panel that quantifiably ranked them.
- The time limit for each presentation is 5-8 minutes followed by 4-8 minutes of Q&A from the judges.
- Once all presentations are complete, the Judges will retire to deliberate based on the presentation, market needs, and personal interest.
- Conflicts of interest are determined before the judging process begins. Judges with a clear Conflict of Interest must declare it and abstain from the voting process. In the event of a tie, a member of the Mobile Innovation team will cast the deciding vote.
- Given that the audience will consist of executive decision makers representing potential MNO purchasers of innovative products/services, investors, acquirers, partners, and other competitors, GSMA strongly recommends that competitors do not disclose direct financial or pricing information or any other information which may compromise the sale or development of your innovation.
- One (1) regional finalist (Global Finalist) from the virtual and two (2) regional finalists (Global Finalists) from onsite events will be selected to continue competing at the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Competition in Barcelona.
- 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition Champion selection at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace held at the Mobile World Congress in February 2009
- Two (2) from each regional tournament and 1 from any virtual tournament) will compete for the Championship title.
- Each candidate must attend the Mobile World Congress to compete.
- Any Global Finalist who does not attend will be disqualified from the competition.
- The Judging Panel will review the Global Finalists award entries including results from existing regional judging panels aggregate quantitative rankings:
- Overall winner selection will be based on quantitative data and qualitative discussion and final pitch presentation.
- Judges will retire to deliberate the Global Finalists. Upon completing their deliberations, a vote will be held. A majority vote will determine the winner.
- In the event of a tie, the judges will start the deliberation process again and re-vote. In the event the Judges cannot determine a winner alone, a member of the GSMA Mobile Innovation Market team will be asked to cast the deciding vote.
Winners:
The decision of the judges is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
The Top Innovators will be announced at their respective regional or virtual events. Each of these Top Innovators are required to confirm their attendance at the regional or virtual event to be eligible to participate and compete. Each Innovation category winner (Global Semi-Finalist) will be announced at the Closing Awards ceremony of the Mobile Innovation Marketplace event or virtual event as appropriate. The Global Championship will be held at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace event in Barcelona, February 2009. The overall winner will be announced at the Global Mobile Congress Awards Gala Dinner & Ceremony at the 2009 Mobile World Congress. Please see the GSMA website at www.gsmworld.com for details of corresponding venues and dates.
Winners will receive the benefits.
Promotion:
By entering the GSMA's Mobile Innovation Awards, entrants are expressly authorizing GSMA to use the specific text, visual, audio and all other materials submitted during the course of the competition, for the purposes of promoting the mobile industry in GSMA presentations, reports for publication, web site and media activities as well as all other forms of promotional/publicity materials.
Prior written approval from GSMA is required for all competition entrants wishing to disclose any details to a third party of participation in the Mobile Innovation Marketplace, this includes all press releases.
General Enquiries
For general enquiries regarding the Mobile Innovation Marketplace, please contact info@mobileinnovation.org
