The #InnovationForGood Award deadline looms. Have you applied yet?

IKEA, ABBA and the Swedish House Mafia aren’t the only exports from Sweden to India. Sweden’s Lund University is returning to India this year for the “Innovation For Good” Award and is calling all innovators to apply. A collaboration between the University’s Sweden-South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) and the Centre for Work, Technology and Social Change (WTS).

This is the second straight year that the #InnovationForGood award will be hosted in India. Last year at the India Habitat Center in New Delhi, SASNET hosted their first ever workshop in India focused around social innovation in a digital context. This year the workshop and award ceremony will be held in Mumbai in October 2016.

The #InnovationForGood Award celebrates “one enterprise or individual from India for their work in social innovation in a digital context”. The goal is recognize innovators who have created platforms at the intersection of technology, media and human rights.

Last year’s Innovation for Good award winner was Factly — a data journalism and public information portal in India that brings data to life through infographics, creative videos and other means.

Two honorary awards were also handed out to ‘Citizen Matters’ and ‘India Or Pakistan.’ Citizen Matters is a Bangalore-focused news publication that covers the city’s public affairs, community and culture, while encouraging everyone to get involved in city affairs. ‘India or Pakistan’ is an innovative Android app with nearly 350,000 downloads that quizzes you on whether you can spot the difference between India and Pakistan.

Besides bragging rights, the winner of this innovation award also gets INR 1,00,000.

If you need a little competitive encouragement, I’m applying for this award this year for my work in putting real-time air pollution data in the hands of everyone with an internet connection. Did you know that 6.5 million people die every year because of air pollution? That’s approximately 18,000 people a day! I have been on a quest to make worldwide air pollution data as easy to access and understand as weather data. After a twitter bot and an Android app, I launched a Facebook Messenger chatbot called Smokey which people in dozens of countries have already used to get regular updates about air quality in their cities! With Smokey, runners can now automatically get alerted when the air quality in their city reaches unhealthy levels, so they may decide to opt for the treadmill instead of running outdoors. Similarly, parents can get air quality updates every morning and decide whether their children should wear a face mask to school or not.

The award draws a diverse group of entrepreneurial applicants — both organizations and individuals. You have about a month left till the deadline on September 12 to be considered for it, and you can get all the details on SASNET’s website. Good luck!

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