Financial Times And Citi Name Community Cooker Foundation The
Global Winner At 2012 FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards
NEW YORK,
Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Financial
Times and Citi are pleased to announce that Community Cooker
Foundation has been named global winner in the inaugural FT/Citi
Ingenuity Awards: Urban Ideas in Action programme. A distinguished
panel of judges selected the Kenyan not-for-profit organisation as
the global winner for its development of an innovative and
practical waste-burning stove, which holds tremendous potential for
environmental, economic and social change in low resource
environments.
In addition to the global award, winners were recognised
in four categories - education, energy, healthcare and
infrastructure - for demonstrating particular originality,
efficiency and impact in meeting urban challenges in their
respective fields. Winners included: College Possible (Education),
Community Cooker Foundation (Energy), GlaxoSmithKline New Citizen
(Healthcare) and JCDecaux - Velib'
(Infrastructure).
The FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards aim to recognise
leaders, teams, organisations and community groups that have
developed innovative solutions to benefit cities, citizens and
urban communities. The awards, sponsored by Citi, were presented
last night at an awards dinner in New
York where Dame Zaha
Hadid, DBE, Founder, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Dr.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of
Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, delivered keynote
remarks.
"We are delighted to be celebrating so many innovative and
creative ideas that have the ability to change urban life for the
better, in ways both large and small," said Martin Dickson, US Managing Editor of the
Financial Times. "Now more than ever, cities around
the globe face the tremendous challenge of providing basic services
and infrastructure to booming populations, often with extremely
limited resources. The inaugural winners of this award
represent an impressive pool of organisations working
to achieve that goal."
"We are pleased to congratulate the winners, and all the
finalists, for developing urban solutions that are innovative,
scalable and replicable," said Francesco
Vanni d'Archirafi, CEO, Citi Transaction Services. "Enabling
progress has been Citi's central mission for 200 years. We are
proud to recognize those who share our commitment to help cities
thrive and strengthen the communities where we live and
work."
The judging panel included:
- David Adjaye,
OBE, Principal Architect, Adjaye
Architects
- Professor Abhijit
Banerjee, Professor, MIT and
Co-author, Poor Economics
- John Bowis, OBE, Honorary
President, Health First Europe
- Sir Terry Farrell,
CBE, International Architect & Design
Champion and Director, Terry Farrell
and Partners
- Reinier de Graaf, Partner,
OMA
- Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE,
Founder, Zaha Hadid Architects (Honorary President of the judging
committee, non-voting)
- Edwin Heathcote,
Architecture and Design Critic, Financial Times
(co-chair)
- Bruno Lanvin, Executive
Director, INSEAD eLab (co-chair)
- Professor Carlo
Ratti, Professor, MIT and Founding Partner, Carlo Ratti Associati
- Luanne Zurlo, Founder and
President, Worldfund
Submissions were received from 41 countries, including:
Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China,
Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya,
Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Poland,
South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Uganda, U.A.E., the United Kingdom, the
United States and Uruguay.
For more details on the FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards, please
visit
www.ft.com/ingenuity.
Video and photos from the event will be available upon
request.
2012 FT/Citi Ingenuity Award
winners:
Community Cooker Foundation
The
Community Cooker operates on a simple principle: young locals
collect rubbish, which is burned in the cooker at high temperature
levels. The heat generated is used for cooking, sterilizing and
industrial purposes. The cooker has considerably improved the
quality of life of slum dwellers by minimizing waste, reducing
emissions from cooking, providing a cheaper alternative to wood
fuel and creating youth employment.
Kenyan architects Planning Systems Service created the
concept, which is now managed by the Community Cooker Foundation, a
not-for-profit organization. The cooker currently has one prototype
in operation in one of Nairobi's
largest slums but is already being replicated in other areas in
Kenya and in Mombassa. The
Foundation has received many enquiries from other countries which
are keen to replicate this simple and effective concept.
College Possible
Creating a vital
support network, College Possible helps ensure that low-income
students achieve a post secondary degree and break the cycle of
multi generational poverty, enabling them to have a positive impact
on the success of their urban communities.
College Possible uses the national service model of
AmeriCorps to provide five key services to low-income students who
have the potential to go to college, but will struggle to do so
without help. It provides intensive ACT/SAT preparation, assists
college application, gives financial aid consulting, provides
guidance in the transition to college and offers support towards
completion of their college degree.
GlaxoSmithKline New Citizen
The GSK
New Citizen Health Care Project is an innovative 100-square metre
urban centre designed to integrate migrant populations into city
life through the delivery of community health promotion, healthcare
education and health services.
Launched in 2009 in Sanlin Town, Shanghai, the centre is largely operated
by professionals and volunteers from migrant farming families. It
was established as a long-term and sustainable platform to build
community support networks, promote positive behaviour
transformation, and improve targeted community health. The centre
organizes training, workshops, family activities and on-site
services to assist migrant workers to adapt to city life and become
more involved in urban society.
JCDecaux - Velib'
The Velib'
project, launched by JCDecaux, put cycling at the heart of urban
mobility, making self-service bicycle systems an important
complement to public transport. The concept is based on three core
principles; developing a system that is easy to use, available
everywhere and affordable.
Velib' enables individuals to hire a self-service bicycle
for an indefinite time and leave it in the station of their choice
at the end of their journey. The scale, quality and scope of Velib'
made it a showcase for bicycle hire schemes and has been replicated
worldwide.
2012 FT/Citi Ingenuity Award category
finalists:
Education:
Abhyas
Trust - Power of Seeing, India
Asociacion
Aprendo Contigo, Peru
City of
Dubrovnik - Educational Vertical, Croatia
College
Possible, United
States
Sustainable Cities
Initiative, United
States
Energy:
City of Houston - Green Office
Challenge, United
States
Community Cooker
Foundation, Kenya
Proterra, United
States
The Energy and Resources
Institute, India
Tokyo Metropolitan
Government, Japan
Healthcare:
Child Eye
Care Charitable Trust, India
GlaxoSmithKline
New Citizen, China
Pro
Mujer, Nicaragua
Protect
Your Child, Egypt
Infrastructure:
Bitcarrier, Spain
Ikhayalami,
South
Africa
JCDecaux
- Velib', France
ORE
Design + Technology, United States
For further information, please contact:
US:
Ryann
Gastwirth
Financial Times
T:
+ 1 917 551 5094
E:
ryann.gastwirth@ft.com
Liz
Fogarty
Citi
T: +1 212 559
0486
UK/EMEA:
Kristina Eriksson
Financial
Times
T: +44 (0)20 7873 4961
E: kristina.eriksson@ft.com
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About the FT/Citi Ingenuity
Awards
More than half of the world's population
lives in cities today, a number which is expected to rise in the
decades ahead. As a result, cities have a
pressing need to address the challenges of urbanisation and find
solutions that modernise infrastructure, improve efficiency,
enhance quality of life and foster sustainable growth and
development.
The FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards: Urban Ideas in Action, a
global programme sponsored by Citi, was developed to recognise
leaders, teams, organisations and community groups that have
developed groundbreaking solutions to urban challenges that benefit
cities, citizens and urban communities in the fields of education,
energy, healthcare and infrastructure.
Criteria and metrics for the Awards were developed by INSEAD, one
of the world's leading and largest graduate business
schools. All entries were reviewed by the FT and
INSEAD for qualification. As sponsor, Citi did not review or judge
submissions.
Submissions were reviewed based on a range of criteria, including
originality, impact, efficiency and outcomes.
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