Givemechallenge

Have you won an innovation challenge/competition, where you have used your skill to solve a real world problem and you think you can send us the proof of the same, then we will verify these information and issue a certificate of authenticity where we will certify that you have won that innovation challenge, the advantage of getting it certified is that you can present it to your potential employer/Institution  and they can verify the certificate online.

Sample of the certificate issued is listed below.

Your potential Employer can verify the information and check the authenticity

The technology used is Wordpress and digitally verifiable certificates with QR codes and data mining to verify the claim of innovation challenge wins. In the future we plan to issue these certificates in Blockcert that is on blockchain but we decided to startout with a much simpler approach for the time being.

Givemechallenge.com is primarily an innovation listing portal where we list various innovation opportunities & competitions across the world and innovation challenges from various companies & platforms. Thousands of users visit the platform to find various innovation challenges based on their interests, they successfully solve this innovation challenges for rewards & grants, this is where the similarity of Givemchallenge ends with other similar platforms.

We verify the users if they have successfully solved a particular challenge & identify the type of skill they have to solve this challenge & a certificate is issued for a small fee, users can provide this certificate to any employer & they can digitally verify the authenticity of their skill by visiting a QR code or link. We conduct BG verification by connecting with various platforms. Also if any company is looking for innovators with a special skillset, then we can refer from our talent pool.

• Traditional hiring process relies on educational qualifications, past experiences, employee referrals, so that means a large section of population who don't have a very good educational qualification on paper or having a good work experience from a reputed employer or without any contacts or referrals are left out, it is very tough for them to break this great wall of 'job offer'.
• No company would like to hire an employee who doesn't have the educational qualification, work experience or the skill set. So the real problem will be distinguishing these people who don't have a proper degree or prior work experience to prove their skills but they have the skillset that can be useful for the company and can turn out to be an asset for the company, How to spot them?
• Dropping out of high school is positively associated with later crime, its very difficult for a school dropout or college drop out to get back on track with a professional career, until now there is no wild card entry.
• Ability to crack open innovation problems are not considered as an asset while hiring resources, as there is no easy way to verify the claim.
• Matching students with various scholarships based on their skillset is a challenge and as a result most of the students cannot benefit form it.

School/college drop outs, people without proper formal education, people have gained skills through self learning, Freelancers, people who loves to solve innovation challenges, people who have the skillset to solve real world problems but don't have prior working experience.

We are making innovation competitions, opportunities available to them by collecting them and listing it in Givemechallenge.com, now we are giving them an opportunity to verify their open innovation skills by providing them with a verifiable certificate if they have won any open innovation competition, we also would help to connect people with problem solving capability with employers who are looking for talented people to solve real world problems.

Future of Work in India and Indonesia Challenge is to identify and support workforce development solutions that can lead to the digital upskilling and reskilling of the Indian and Indonesian populations. 

• Connect the skills of the workforces to the demands of employers
• Increase and leverage the participation of underserved communities in
  India and Indonesia 
• Equip existing workers in India & Indonesia with real world problem solving opportunities to apply the things they have learnt to practice.

By promoting the assessment and recognition of skills developed outside the formal educational system, innovation competition & awards is one such skill, which will equip people for better job opportunities and provide a chance even though they might lack a formal education and prior work experience, here we plan to disrupt the traditional hiring process by including the ability of employees to solve real world problems which is measured by number of successful innovation challenges/competition they have won.

This will open a window of opportunity for school/college drop outs, people without proper formal education to apply for jobs and get hired based on their innovation and problem solving ability that is identified by their innovation challenge they have successfully cracked.

Aadhithya - Founder, Givemechallenge

Aadhithya is a passionate Innovator, inventor and the winner of 50+ International innovation challenges till date, spanning across various industries solving a variety of problems, he uses cross pollination of technology across industries to solve simple & complex problems. Currently he is inspiring the next generation of innovators through givemechallenge.com

Until now companies hire people based on the educational qualifications, previous work experience & employee referrals, some companies also provide internships and then full time roles but even to get internship then need qualifications.

So school drop outs, refugees, college dropouts who don't have any certifications don't have an option of showcasing their skills, this is where we come into picture, if they won an innovation challenge or competition that means they have great skillset to solve real world challenge, so we will verify their claim and issue verifiable certificate which they can produce before an employer or institution and get hired based on their problem solving ability demonstrated in these innovation challenges.

The technology uses a Wordpress site to list various innovation opportunities, using APIs this is pushed to various social media channels, android app and IOS app.

For issuing the verifiable certification we use QR code verifiable certificates hosted in the cloud, at some point we would want to start issuing them in Blockchain using BlockCert.

Theory of change or logical framework we define is very simple, we have identified an opportunity in the market and the need, that is people without proper educational qualification on paper, prior work experience from reputed employers, freelancers and refuges find it extremely difficult to get any job.

So by disrupting the hiring the process by introducing their ability to solve real world challenge, that is solving innovation challenges, we open a new window of opportunity for people who were deprived of  such opportunity. The technology and implementation of it is simple, it is just that there is a void and no one has done anything about it till now.

1. Talent strategies for innovation

2. Recruitment fairs vs open innovation challenges – how should you recruit?

3. The Case for Innovation and Talent Management

4. Competitions for Showcasing Innovative and Creative Talents

• Millions of refugees across the world can look upto innovation challenges to prove their skills and their success in these innovation challenges can be used a full time career.
• Millions of students across the world can look upto innovation challenges to prove their skills and their success in these innovation challenges can be used secure scholarships in various schools & universities.
• Millions of people who are unable to get a job due to lack of education qualification, prior work experience can look upto innovation challenges as wild card entry to prove their ability to solve real world problems, this can be a big ticket to full time job.

We measure the progress from the number of users using our portal on a daily basis, the total number of active users for our app.

For the newly launched service of providing verification services for innovation awards we will measure the progress based on number of certificates issued.

Marketing is the biggest barrier we face, we don't have the budget to advertise

With platform from MIT Solve we hope we will get the necessary media visibility and recognition through which people across the world & especially India will understand the service we provide and join in our mission of making innovation opportunities accessible to all.

We all hope of building new partnerships with schools, colleges & universities for promoting various opportunities we have in the platform. Also have partnership with companies for providing internships, job opportunities and scholarships for deserving people based on their skillset.

1. Full time staff - Aadhithya, Founder

2. Other workers - Part time/freelancers are hired for posting content in the platform

3. Platform developer - Freelancer hired as per work

4. Full time role - Sujith Kumar M K - For business development & communications

5. Full time role - Sunila C K - Opportunity scouting from various media sources

Aadhithya - Founder, Givemechallenge

Aadhithya is a passionate Innovator, inventor and the winner of 50+ International innovation challenges till date, spanning across various industries solving a variety of challenges by cross pollination of technologies across industries.

We plan to have a Country community ambassador from each country to represent us in each country, so it will be 190+ Country community ambassadors.

Also at the university level we plan to have campus community ambassadors who will spread the news about various innovation opportunities to students and people across the world, even in places where there is no continuous internet connectivity.

We work with various innovation consultancy platforms in listing their innovation opportunities in our platform helping them connect to the bright talent.

We also help promote various innovation opportunities organized by various companies, for example:- This innovation challenge from Solve and many more.

1. Innovation competition sponsors can do a premium listing and promotion of their competitions for a fee.

2. Google Adsense revenue from ads.

3. Revenue from users when they request to verify their innovation challenge and win, certify their skills.

4. Employers when they get successful innovator they pay a small innovator referral fees. Talent scouting fees.

5. Affiliate earnings from education related products like Courses, workshops etc.

Services provided.

1. Innovation listing portal provides opportunities to millions of users everyday using our web portal, android, IOS app & social media channels.

2. Users can verify their innovation award win with us, we will issue a digitally verifiable certificates after verifying their claims

Partnerships

Various innovation platforms, Universities, companies reach out to us to promote their opportunities or to get talented innovators who can solve problems for them.

So our primary focus will be to connect the verified innovators with right employers.

India has one of the most innovative workforce among all the countries in our opinion, due to a large population and competition it is also easy to get lost in the crowd, where the talented people might go unnoticed and also due to financial inequalities.

We want to win this challenge as this will  help us gain the recognition that we deserve to make our platform noticed across the world and the work we are doing for making innovation opportunities accessible to all and based on their skillset of solving innovation challenges, help them get a full time jobs based on their skillset rather than their educational and experience background. The financial award also will help us scale the platform mainly marketing the platform to colleges, schools & universities. 

The partnerships we are looking for is mainly tie with MNCs where they can recruit our verified talent pool of innovators who have won innovation challenges in various internship programs and provide job opportunities, we also would like to have collaboration with Schools, colleges & universities too so that students will be aware of various opportunities that is available to them including scholarships.

The platform the content and effort is already put in, the challenges we are facing is mostly the reach, which will need help in marketing, press coverage, VC pitching, partnerships etc.