Dell Challenge Encourages University Students to Create Solutions That Empower Women and Girls
04 Juni 2013 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Dell today announced the Dell Empowering Women Challenge, a
global competition to encourage university students from any
country, male or female, graduate or undergraduate, from any field
of study, to propose initiatives empowering women and girls,
thereby creating business opportunities and recognizing female
influence. The competition seeks to inspire at least 100 innovative
ideas from around the world and will place an emphasis on the need
to increase entrepreneurship in developing markets.
Continuing its commitment to inspiring innovation, the Dell
Empowering Women Challenge is a spotlight challenge of the Dell
Social Innovation Challenge, the world’s largest social innovation
community, challenging university students to solve some of the
world’s most pressing problems with transformative ideas.
Fifty semi-finalists will be selected in September and will
receive direct mentorship from members of the Dell Women’s
Entrepreneur Network, a community of around 400 established female
founders connected to Dell, giving those project teams the chance
to develop their ideas with the help, experience and expertise of
successful women and business leaders. One member from each of the
top three teams will receive an all-expense paid trip to pitch
their team’s idea at a special awards event in December 2013. The
winning team will be announced at that event and will receive a
$15,000 cash prize. All finalists will be automatically entered as
semi-finalists for the 2014 Dell Social Innovation Challenge,
Dell’s umbrella competition focused on social entrepreneurship.
“We continue to see that while the aspiration of women and men
may be equal, the barriers to opportunity they face are not. In
business, the unfortunate reality is that this is true whether
women are starting their own business, or are part of existing
organizations, and this is a clear inhibitor to growth,” said Trisa
Thompson, vice president of Corporate Responsibility at Dell. “At
Dell we are working on many fronts to create a level playing field
for women. Having seen some incredible creative ideas in previous
competitions, we’re excited to see how the world’s university
communities will propose tackling the challenges facing women
today.”
The challenge was announced at the fourth annual Dell Women’s
Entrepreneur Network global event in Istanbul, where Dell also
introduced Pay It Forward, a new global initiative to support 1
million women and girls by the end of 2015. Dell also released the
findings of the world’s first women’s entrepreneurship index,
undertaken with The Global Entrepreneurship and Development
Institute (GEDI), to measure and rank the entrepreneurial
environment, eco-system and aspiration of women in 17 developed and
emerging economies around the world.
Information for entrants:
- September 23, 2013: Deadline for
entrants to register online at DellEmpoweringWomen.org and post
project submissions
- October 4, 2013: 50 semi-finalists will
be announced
- November 8, 2013: 3 finalists will be
announced
- December 2013: awards event
- The winners and the 10 promising
projects will share a total of $35,000 in cash prizes
- FREE to enter the competition
About Dell Social Innovation Challenge
The DSIC identifies and supports promising young social
innovators who dedicate themselves to solving some of the world’s
most pressing problems with their transformative ideas. Introduced
in 2007 by the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in
the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at
Austin, the Challenge provides students with world-class teaching
and training, as well as start-up capital and access to a network
of mentors and advisers. For more information, visit
DellChallenge.org.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers
innovative technology and services that give them the power to do
more. Powering the possible is Dell’s commitment to putting its
technology and expertise to work where it can do the most good for
people and the planet. Learn more at
www.dell.com/poweringthepossible.
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