How Voting Works
These rules are set before voting opens, published here, and enforced by the platform.
Three steps
Verify your email
A six-digit code confirms a real inbox. No account, no password.
Pick up to five
Choose one to five nominees in each of the nine categories. Skipping a category is fine.
Submit — final
Your ballot locks as soon as it is in. There is no edit window.
Half you, half the jury
Public vote
Your share of all the selections cast in a category. Only ballots that survive verification and fraud review are counted.
Jury panel
Five judges score every finalist on impact, innovation, sustainability and ethics, each out of ten, levelled against each juror's own distribution.
The rules
One ballot per person
Verified by a code sent to your email.
Up to five per category
Pick one to five nominees in each of the nine.
No changes after you submit
Your ballot locks as soon as it is in.
No live results
You see the total votes cast, never who is ahead.
Where we are now
Nominations
The public put names forward. We reviewed every one.
Voting
You vote. The five judges score in private.
Counting
Both halves are combined and checked.
Ceremony
Winners announced. Full results published the same night.
Voting opens 1 October.