Future Leaders Competion 2024
Future Leaders Competion 2024
About the Competition
Future Leaders Competition 2024 Overview
The Future Leaders Competition 2024 aims to identify and nurture the next generation of innovators. This competition provides a platform for young leaders to present their ideas and solutions to pressing global challenges. Our goal is to inspire creativity, foster collaboration, and drive impactful change. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with experts, receive mentorship, and compete for prestigious awards.
“I have followed the IIC Future Leaders Competition in previous years and I had told myself if cybersecurity was ever the chosen topic, I would enter! This is a great opportunity for young professionals to exercise their analytical, research and writing skills in a communications and policy area they are passionate in. I found the experience immensely rewarding, both professionally and personally. I will be forever thankful to the IIC for nurturing and promoting an initiative like this one and would encourage anyone eligible to enter!”
Nicole Darabian, FLC 2023 winner
What is this initiative?
The IIC Future Leaders Competition, now in its seventh year, and supported by the members of the IIC, encourages and promotes original thought in the areas of communications and policy.
What do you need to do?
This year entrants are asked to produce an essay, submitted electronically, on the following topic:
Breaking down barriers to sustainability
A green and digital ‘twin transition’ is underway but can both targets be met? What can the communications industry do to assure future sustainability? Are policies sufficient to achieve the targets, what regulations and structures are needed, and who should pay?
In your essay for this year’s Future Leaders Competition, we invite you to consider the sustainability of networks and the impact of digital technology on the wider economy, whether from the global North or South. What do these targets mean for consumer adoption?
You should:
- Develop a sustained and well-structured response, addressing the question asked
- Show evidence and justification of position
- Show awareness & understanding of contending viewpoints
- Show commercial awareness & understanding of competitive market forces
Competition Prizes, Key Dates for your diary and Submission Requirements
What do you need to do?
This year entrants are asked to produce an essay, submitted electronically, on the following topic:
Breaking down barriers to sustainability
A green and digital ‘twin transition’ is underway but can both targets be met? What can the communications industry do to assure future sustainability? Are policies sufficient to achieve the targets, what regulations and structures are needed, and who should pay?
In your essay for this year’s Future Leaders Competition, we invite you to consider the sustainability of networks and the impact of digital technology on the wider economy, whether from the global North or South. What do these targets mean for consumer adoption?
Chair of the Judging Panel
Andrea Millwood Hargrave
Principal, Millwood Hargrave Ltd
Vice-Chair of the Judging Panel
Robin Mansell
Professor Emerita of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Judges
Jordi Casanova
Head of Telecoms & Space, EU Public Policy Team, Amazon
Bobbie Mellor
Global Head of Sustainability & Transparency, Vodafone Group
Chris Taylor
Partner, Plum Consulting
Thomas Volmer
Director, Head of Global Content Delivery Policy, Netflix