World Government Summit World Data Visualization Prize 2023 for visual story tellers ($50,000 prize)

Application Deadline: February 1st, 2023

Welcome to this $50,000 global creative data challenge. WGS supply the datasets and themes. You provide creative, intuitive data-visualizations that tell a story or reveal something interesting about the data.

The winning works will receive cash prizes, international press coverage, and the chance to have their work exhibited to world leaders at the World Government Summit in February 2023.

Requirements

• The competition is open to anyone interested in design, data-analytics, and visual story-telling.
• Maybe you’re a designer, a developer, a creative professional, an analytics ninja, solo practitioner or a team – all are welcome to take part…

Prizes

• $25,000: Grand Prize Winner
• $7,500-Interactive, Winner
• $5,000-Interactive, Runner-up
• $2,500-Interactive, Third Place
• $5,000-Poster, Winner
• $3,000-Poster, Runner-up
• $1,000-Poster, Third Place
• $1,000-Poster, Fourth Place

Timeline

• 16 December: Competition opens
• 1st February 11:59PM AST : Competition closes
• 10 February: Winners announced
• 13 February: Exhibition at the World Government Summit, Dubai

Process

Choose one or visualize all three of the following competition concepts and datasets.

1. What Just Happened? What’s improved? What’s broken through? What’s gone supernova? Charting our development across many different metrics over a 10 year period to highlight the successes – and the bottlenecks. Explore this dataset
2. Dashboard of the Present Future Governments need to see how well they, their nation and their populace are doing – from a data-perspective. Design us a data display for this purpose. How might it look, feel and function. Which metrics are primary? Explore this dataset
3. The Future of Frontiers What factors and drivers might shape the society, government and citizens of the future? Tracking and visualising our progress and predictions for innovation in adaptation, future governance, public services, and social technology.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the World Government Summit World Data Visualization Prize 2023