NINE DOTS PRIZE

About: 

• Objective: The Nine Dots Prize is a prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues.
  
  
• Criteria:
  • Entrants are asked to respond to a question in 3,000 words, with the winner receiving US$100,000 to write a short book expanding on their ideas.
    
    
  • All those 18 years of age and over are welcome to enter but responses and the resulting book must be in English.
    
    
  
  
  
• Name: The name of the Prize references the nine dots puzzle – a lateral thinking puzzle which can only be solved by thinking outside the box.
  
  
• Bodies involved: The Prize is sponsored by the Kadas Prize Foundation with support from CRASSH at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Press.