1 Week to Go: IIC Future Leaders Competition 2024 (Deadline 12th August 16:00 BST)

If you are in the process of compiling your entry for this year's FLC Competition there is just 1 week to go until the deadline. Please read below to ensure your essay meets all the relevant entry requirements, for tips and advice on creating a successful entry, and hear from this year's Chair of the Judging Panel - Andrea Millwood Hargrave.

Click below for a further explanation of this year's topic:

What is this initiative?

The IIC Future Leaders Competition, now in its seventh year, and supported by the members of the IIC, encourages and promotes original thought in the areas of communications and policy.

What do you need to do?

This year entrants are asked to produce an essay, submitted electronically, on the following topic:

Breaking down barriers to sustainability

A green and digital ‘twin transition’ is underway but can both targets be met? What can the communications industry do to assure future sustainability? Are policies sufficient to achieve the targets, what regulations and structures are needed, and who should pay?

In your essay for this year’s Future Leaders Competition, we invite you to consider the sustainability of networks and the impact of digital technology on the wider economy, whether from the global North or South. What do these targets mean for consumer adoption?

Please submit your essay directly to [email protected]

You should:

• Develop a sustained and well-structured response, addressing the question asked
• Show evidence and justification of position
• Show awareness & understanding of contending viewpoints
• Show commercial awareness & understanding of competitive market forces

“I have followed the IIC Future Leaders Competition in previous years and I had told myself if cybersecurity was ever the chosen topic, I would enter! This is a great opportunity for young professionals to exercise their analytical, research and writing skills in a communications and policy area they are passionate in. I found the experience immensely rewarding, both professionally and personally. I will be forever thankful to the IIC for nurturing and promoting an initiative like this one and would encourage anyone eligible to enter!”Nicole Darabian, FLC 2023 winner

Meet this year's competition sponsors:

The International Institute of Communications is a member organisation which exists to inform and thereby shape the global policy agenda for the ICT and digital ecosystem. View our membership options here and our current members here .

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