Evaluation for Stage - 1

Problem Relevance, Impact & Target Audience / Beneficiaries

• Is the problem identified relevant and important to our society?
• Does it solve a social or community-related problem?
• Will the solution have a reasonably high impact on society?
• Can the impact be measured through concrete parameters? For example, how many people will benefit from the solution, will it enhance desirable statistics & reduce undesirable ones, etc.
• Is there a properly identified target population / beneficiaries for the solution?

Idea Novelty

• Is the proposed solution novel and different / innovative?
• Is there local competition for the solution? Or international competition?

Solution Practicability & Ease of Adoption

• Is the proposed solution practical and implementable?
• Does it have the potential to be easily accepted and adopted by the beneficiaries? (Technically simple solutions with a good user interface, and those that can be implemented without much user training and without cost input by beneficiaries are more easily adopted)

Commercialization Potential / Potential for Mass deployment

• Is the solution commercializable?
• Does it need significant refinement to make it commercializable?

(For ideas and products with a commercial or profit-making intention, judges to assess if the ideas can be easily commercialized given the facilities and expertise available in Pakistan.

For not-for-profit ideas, judges have to assess if the solution has the potential to be mass deployed)