Entries can be submitted by individuals, projects and companies that have made a positive impact in the digital economy with their company’s products, services or projects. Anyone can submit an entry, subject to a processing fee, without a need to be nominated or invited, and any single submission can be entered in a second category for the same fee.

Entries can be submitted at any time between mid-July and the end of December each year, and can be updated at any time, any number of times, until the closing date.

In the following January, an initial round of public voting gives a wide community an opportunity to express their opinions on all the entries, and for entrants to mobilize their crowds of supporters to vote for them.

The public voting creates shortlists of nominees for each category, which are then assessed by a panel of international judges that selects top finalists from each category. All entries will be evaluated with the same criteria: Level of Impact 40%, Scalability 30%, Transparency 20%, H-Factor 10% (Human & Social). The public votes and the panel’s votes count for 50% each, and are combined to determine the winners.