BCX Digital Innovation Awards is now open to South African organisations to submit their innovation showcases.
Once entries have closed, a specialised committee of innovation experts shortlist the top submissions in each category. These shortlisted entrants are invited to the awards recording studio to showcase their innovations. All shortlisted candidates are invited to the black-tie awards ceremony held in Johannesburg in November, where the winners will be announced.
Competition Categories and Prizes
Category 1: Public Sector Entities
Best in Society: Social innovation refers to the design and implementation of new solutions that employ conceptual, process, product, or organisational change, which ultimately aim to improve the welfare and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Prize: R40 000
Best in ICT: Technology innovation refers to the design and implementation of new solutions that employ conceptual, process, product, or organisational change, which ultimately aim to drive business growth and digital transformation to better serve citizens.
Prize: R40 000
Overall winner 2023: Best overall in all rating criteria.
Prize: R80 000
Category 2: Corporate Enterprises
Best in Technology: Technology innovation refers to the design and implementation of new solutions that employ conceptual, process, product, or organisational change, which ultimately aim to drive business growth and digital transformation to better serve customers
Prize: Title, Trophy, certificate.
Best in Society and Sustainability: Sustainable innovation involves making intentional changes to a company’s products, services, or processes to generate long-term social and environmental benefits while creating economic profits for the business.
Prize: Title, Trophy, certificate.
Overall winner 2023: Best overall in all rating criteria.
Prize: Title, Trophy, certificate.
Category 3: Small And Medium Enterprises
Best in Technology: Technology innovation refers to the design and implementation of new solutions that employ conceptual, process, product, or organisational change, which ultimately aim to drive business growth and digital transformation to better serve customers.
Prize: Possible Partnership, Trophy, certificate
Best in Society and Sustainability: Sustainable innovation involves making intentional changes to a company’s products, services, or processes to generate long-term social and environmental benefits while creating economic profits for the business.
Prize: Possible Partnership, Trophy, certificate
Overall winner 2023: Best overall in all rating criteria.
Prize: Possible Partnership, Trophy, certificate.
Eligibility Criteria
The awards are open to SME, Corporate and Public Sector Entities.
The competition is only open to businesses registered within South Africa whose innovation submissions are of benefit to South Africa.
Submissions must demonstrate the use of technology to innovate.
Submissions must demonstrate how the innovation effort has added value to the organisation as well as to South Africa.
Digital innovation entries submitted for consideration should showcase working innovations that are no older than 4 years.
The digital innovations submitted into the awards must still be operational within the organisation’s context.
Corporate Enterprise Entry Requirements:
The organisation must be registered in South Africa.
The innovation must benefit South Africa.
The organisation must have existed for more than a year.
All digital innovations submitted must be in operation.
The organisation must employ more than 1000 people.
Public Sector Entity Entry Requirements:
The innovation category if for innovations from within official South African Government Entities and not a service provider.
The innovation must benefit South Africa.
All digital innovations submitted must be in operation.
Small and Medium Enterprise Entry Requirements:
The organisation must be registered in South Africa.
The innovation must benefit South Africa.
Direct managerial involvement by owners.
The organisation must have existed for more than a year.
All digital innovations submitted must be in operation.
Judging Criteria
Judges are selected by the BCX Innovation Centre of Excellence based on their experience in the field of innovation and technology.
In the case of an unforeseen or unexpected event that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled (also referred to as “force majeure”) BCX reserves the right to replace any of the selected judges before and during judging.
BCX will consider each entry based on the information provided by the organisation.
You will be informed whether your entry has been shortlisted via email. The email will be sent to the email address provided on your submission form.
Shortlisted entries will be required to supply media and other information to BCX to be used for display in BCX’s marketing materials leading up to the awards and during the week of the awards. Entrants authorise BCX to publicly display all images and information provided for this purpose.
Only shortlisted entries will be invited to the award event.
The winners will be announced at the BCX Digital Innovation Awards in November.
Information about all stages of the awards from entry to award will be emailed to contestants using the email provided in the entry pack.
BCX’s decisions relating to shortlisting and selection of winners during judging, is final and
BCX will not enter any correspondence or discussion with any entrants on any subject nor will BCX accept any submissions, representations or appeals with regard to such decisions.
BCX reserves the right to:
Disqualify entries that do not comply with these Terms & Conditions or for any other reason.
Disqualify entries that do not supply all of the information required by the entry pack guidelines (5 questions).
Not make an award in any or all of the given categories.
Move an entry to another category without notice, if BCX feels it would be better suited to the relevant category.
Disqualify any entry that is a product of two or more companies that does not have the agreement of all parties to enter the awards.
Disqualify any entry that does not have the authorisation from their organisation to enter these awards.
