In the news release, Financial Times And Citi Name Community
Cooker Foundation The Global Winner At 2012 FT/Citi Ingenuity
Awards, issued 11-Dec-2012 by Citi
over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the third
paragraph, second sentence, should read "presented last week"
rather than "presented last night" as originally issued
inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows:
Financial Times And Citi Name Community Cooker Foundation The
Global Winner At 2012 FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards
-- College Possible, GlaxoSmithKline New Citizen, JCDecaux
- Velib' honoured in Education, Healthcare and
Infrastructure
NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 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 week 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.