The DST has endorsed the competition, which is aimed at small businesses, inventors, researchers, NGOs and technology organisations.
According to ESI-Africa, the 23 winners of the Empowering People Award - a six-month long competition that was launched by the Siemens Foundation at the Rio +20 sustainable development conference in June 2012 - will share R2m in prize money. Entries are invited in six categories: Water & waste water, energy, food & agriculture, waste management & recycling, housing & construction, healthcare, and information & communication technology (ICT). All intellectual properties will remain with the inventor or inventors, and the entries will be valued by an interdisciplinary and international jury.
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