Introduction

We all have what it takes to make a positive change in the world through our ideas, projects and businesses. But how many ideas get the backing they require to become a real life solution and how many solutions get the backing to scale and have their full impact to the communities and markets they target? The Dell Social Innovation Challenge offers University students a unique opportunity that turns their ideas, projects and businesses that have a positive change to society into reality. Step one in participating in this challenge is having a project page. In this document, I will guide you on the basic steps and requirements to creating a good Project page. There are many ways you may follow to fill in your project page and this will be helpful as one of them.

Important
There are parts of the project page details i.e video and Roadmap to success that are not mandatory when you first create your project page and before semi-finals. However you may go through them as it will give you a nice idea on key areas to highlight about your project. You may create your project page first without them and update them soon afterwards after preparing them. For the character limited portions of the projects page, prepare your write-ups using Microsoft Word then under review tab, click on word count to get the number of characters or words you have used. To complete your project page on the Dell Social Innovation Challenge website, the following will be required. Go through the requirements and try preparing drafts before. Remember clarity and concision wins. The order of filling as presented on the site may not be as outlined in this documents but all the required fields in any stage are discussed in here. Assuming you already have a user profile on the Dell Challenge site, on your profile page under summary, click on CREATE NEW PROJECT and this will lead you to the project builder page where you can fill in your project details. Important: Remember to enter the reference code SANYA SILAS on your as you create your profiles or if you already have a profile from the edit tab if you have none.

1. Project summary
This is a direct brief description of what your project is and who it helps. The length of this summary is limited to 215 characters inclusive of spaces.

2. Project Image
This the image that will represent your project. You may choose a logo for your organization or a picture that clearly depicts your project. Maximum allowed size is 20MB ,formats png gif jpg jpeg and must be larger than 423X275 pixels

3. Project Detail Description.

This is a detailed description of your project. Be clear and persuasive to be able to sell your innovation as well as your teams ability to successfully achieve that. This is limited to 2500 characters. If you are copy pasting from a pre-prepared draft from word on notepad, select to appropriate mode for copying on the top of text editor Clearly outline the following in your summary A description of the problem your project solves -You may present this with a sample case, giving credible statistics and emphasizing on the critical need to solve the problem. How you are to achieve this clearly outline how your project will tackle and provide a solution to this problem, steps already taken and steps the teams is planning to take. Outline the teams abilities and strengths to do this. Benefits outline the benefits that will come along with the achievement of your projects goals. This is a simple guideline to what you may include in your project detail description. You may follow any format suitable.

4. Project Phases
Choose an appropriate project phase for your project. The following outline helps you in choosing this Define: The social impacts of the project and the innovation driving them exist conceptually in the students head, or the student has a few general ideas with limited research at this point. Design: The projects impact potentials are taking shape as project execution assumptions are tested with potential customer/beneficiaries, beginnings of formal internal and external teams and some details on project pilot locale and test elements are captured. Pilot: The innovation project has been tested with a small group of customer/beneficiaries and is getting verifiable impacts. Team continues making project improvements based on live experience in the field. Scale: The innovation has proven successful at achieving social impacts in more than one geographic area. The project has sustainable financial and human resource models with strong leadership and strategic partner support in place.

5. Project video
This is not mandatory before semi-finals. A video presentation of your project aids in showcasing better some elements of your projects. Note that at the semi-finals, a video is mandatory so even if you dont have one at the start you may start considering making one. The video content is open to your creativity on ways to present your project using audio visual The video is limited to 2 minutes or less HINT: A useful guide before you create yours may be previous competition years videos on youtube or vimeo.

6. Team Info.
A good and powerful project is dependent also on the team behind it. Be keen to provide as much info as possible on the team. This includes your profile pages, update them with your details, work experience e.t.c Important: Remember to have the reference code SANYA SILAS on your user profiles as you create your profiles or if you already have a profile from the edit tab.

7. Social Media Info

If you have any social media accounts or a website, this is the place you add this information.

8. 5 Important Questions
This five questions are key to easily help viewers understand your project and add power to your project page and are required when you first present your project. Each questions answer is limited to 500 characters. What is your innovation? Who gains the most? Innovation Product and Warranty Social Impact Mantras

 Who pays? What is success? How will you get there?

Environment and Resources Donors and Investors Social Impact Baselines and Milestones Assumptions and Givens Innovator Capacity and Readiness Project Operating Models Project Team and Core Expertise Partners and Collaborations

9. Sponsors so far
If you have had any sponsors for your projects activities, outline it below here.

10.

Roadmap to Success.

This is a document where you will in farther detail explain how you are to achieve your goals. Though not mandatory before semi-finals its highly advisable to have one even before as it is a valuable guide to use to describe your project and start preparing in advance for the semifinals round where it would be necessary. This is a set of questions that offers a common framework any team can use to evolve their unique and compelling project story into how they will achieve global social impact success. Go through the questions and it is recommended you answer them each as you compile your roadmap, they will help cover and understand all angles of your project better

Road Map To success questions

Innovation Product and Warranty 1. What type of product is your social innovation: idea, environment, event, service or good? 2. What social impacts will your innovation produce that can be guaranteed? Social Impact Mantras 3. How many clearly targeted groups will achieve objectively measurable and verifiable gains from your project? a. What would each specific group be able to claim they gained from your innovation (i.e. their impact mantra)? 4. What single group (among all above able to claim gains) is the most important for your project to reach a significant level of global impact? a. Does their impact mantra describe your projects most important social impact? b. If not, what impact mantra describes your projects most important social impact?

Environment & Resources 5. What highly applicable human, material and in-kind resources are immediately accessible to your project and could be useful to your ultimate success? a. Of these, what resources have you secured for your project for free, or at reduced cost? b. Of any remaining resources available, what will you secure for your project for free or at reduced cost within the next three months? c. Who else could contribute valuable resources to your project within six months and what exactly can you get for free or at reduced cost? Donors & Investors 6. Who most desires to support the social impacts your project intends to deliver at scale? a. Of these, who has already contributed to your project and how much did they give? b. Of others, who will contribute to your project within three months and how much will they give? c. Of the rest, who can most likely contribute to your project within six months and how much will you target from them? 7. Who can financially gain from any impacts delivered by your project? a. Of these, who has already invested in your project and how much did you get? b. Of others, who will invest in your project within three months and how much will you get? c. Of the rest, who can most likely invest in your project within six months and how much will you target from them? 8. Who else highly desires to pay for, contribute to and/or invest in your project: what do they say they want to buy and how much will you get for it? Social Impact Baselines & Milestones 9. For your single, most important customer or beneficiary group (see question #4) what existing conditions, or baseline results, they currently experience do you intend to change? 10. What are the incremental milestone gains above these baselines your innovation can deliver to just one individual in this group? 11. Are any of these milestone gains guaranteed as part of your innovation product warranty (see question #2)? 12. How many total individuals in the group must verifiably achieve these gains for you to consider your project successfulin three months, in six months, in one year and in three years from now? 13. How will those outside of the group (not your customers or beneficiaries) be able to tell your project is delivering social impacts to the worldwhat objectively measurable and verifiable baselines will be improving? Assumptions & Givens 14. What current forces and constraints create urgency for you and your team? 15. What targets motivate and engage your customers, beneficiaries and others to support your project toward its intended global impact success? 16. What next several achievements (within 12 months) must your team accomplish to ensure

your project will succeed by a deadline? 17. Which needed project resources do you already have under your control, such that their intended use is guaranteed? 18. What needed resources are not now under your control but will be essential to your project progress within three, six and 12 months? 19. What external permissions, approvals or regulatory compliance is necessary for your team to maintain project progress within three, within six and within 12 months? 20. What competing forces, conflicts, priorities or circumstances might dilute your efforts, decrease your social impact value or delay your project progress within the next year? 21. What proof do you have that any gains your social innovation intends to deliver are clearly preferred by each group you target for all social impact success? 22. What are the most important project assumptions you have yet to test and need to prove as true within three, six and 12 months? Innovator Capacity and Readiness 23. What is the easiest way for anyone to verify you and your team are fully committed to this project and will remain responsible for achieving all future progress? 24. What amount of deliberate and methodical effort (applied time in hours or days) have you and each of your team members committed exclusively to this project over the next three months, six months, 12 months? 25. Who are your most important project champions and what will they help you and your team achieve? Project Operating Models 26. What type of ownership control is your project under nowprivate or public? 27. What type of organizational model are you operatingformal or informal? 28. What type of accumulated earnings will your project producecharitable, profitable or both? Project Team & Core Expertise 29. What personal expertise or specific skills do you and your team use to drive your project progress right now? 30. What additional expertise or specific skills will you and your team need to drive your project progress in three, in six and in 12 months from now? 31. Who and how will you acquire any needed additional expertise in three, in six and in 12 months from now?

Partners & Collaborations 32. Who are or will be your most important operating partners? 33. How are these partners absolutely necessary to your project success: a. What specific results will they accomplish for your project in the next three, six and 12 months?

b. What social impacts can only be achieved by partnering with others, i.e. that could not be achieved by either party working alone?

11.Recommendations
Students may also submit (optional) up to three supplemental electronic files (of 8 MB size or less) offering evidence of partner representations and project achievements, e.g. investor commitments, customer testimonials, etc. (Approved file formats are listed on the file upload section). These files are not required, but students are strongly encouraged to present independent evidence about their social innovation and any project achievements that can persuade judges about their potentials to become a successful project after being a winning finalist.

Food for thought

Finally as your project page is coming to life, ask yourself this questions below and get your friends to vote for your projects as well as share views and opinions. Social Impacts Are the projects social impacts defined as results that are objectively measurable and verifiable? Are the social impacts offered better than current options or what baseline conditions allow? Do the social impacts theyre proposing have the potential to be globally scalable and significant? Probability of Project Success Are all project elements aligned to drive social impact growth? Does the team identify or offer evidence (e.g. formal representations, commitments, certifications) that each project element is bona fide and true? Is each project element clearly consequential to driving social impact progress? Is the projects dependency on each element within the teams control or influence? Does the team (or individual) have expertise, experience and/or a set of dispositions aligned and relevant to project success? Is the team committed to driving their project to the next customer or beneficiary milestone