First of all you have to choose between these eight UNESCO goals:

• End porverty and hunger
• Universal education
• Gender equality
• Child health
• Maternel health
• Combat HIV/AIDS
• Enviromental sustainability

 Now finding a project within these goals should be easier than it has been last year, because the last few times only one of these goals was the goal of the competition. Now all eight applies. But still, it is not as easy as one would like. How does one find a technology to end porverty? If I could do that I would have ended porvery a long time ago! But try to see the small picture here. Its a big subject, but can you do somthing in a small scale, that could help? This is the key thinking of entering a competition like Imagine Cup, try to build up ideas in small scale, and I will promise you that the idea will evolve to a big solution. Now what else can you do? If you whant to win, my personal belive is that your project need to have business "bling" to it. Why? If a company is willing to spend money getting your idea on the marked, then you have a good idea. So try see if your idea has a business "bling" by asking yourself - Is there a need for my idea on the marked today? , Does it cost more to produce your idea , then a company is likely to earn? (then its a bad idea). A good idea may come, when you as a person starts to look at your surroundings, and starts to observe what the need is for different things. It could be small things, which will evolve to bigger things... Remember, no one is asking you to end Maternel death in Africa with a piece of C# code.... (if you can, you may... Please). But to contribute with something, that might evolve to solution to the problem.

For more info on the eight UNESCO goals:  http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

For more info on Imagine Cup 2009: http://imaginecup.com/

Now, the reason that I'm not sharing my project just yet, is that me and my team-mate are not sure that we have captured the right angle just yet. But we're getting there.....

Imagine Cup 2009

I'ts now official! Me and another student partner at DTU are now in the works of finding a project for our participation in Imagine Cup 2009. We must admit that finding a subject from the top ten UNESCO millennium goals is not easy!! We are now discussing if should go for healtcare or the environment, which both are highly intriguing subjects. So wish us good luck ;-)