The Brilliant World movement seeks to cultivate a way of thinking and planning, involving others around the globe, that has the potential to deliver optimum solutions that will enable humanity to survive and prosper.

We invite you to get involved if you would like to participate in this process of forum policy-making, and if you would like to make a difference.

Eligibility

You will need to register in order to be eligible to make a submission or have your comments on an existing submission placed on the website.

Before submitting an idea, please familiarise yourself with the 5 core values and satisfy yourself that your contribution rates highly against all of them.

In order to be considered for inclusion on brilliantworld.org, an entry must meet the following criteria.

• It must be proposed by a registered member.
• It must be between 500-2000 words long, although additional attachments may be included.
• It must have the general intention of benefiting humanity, regionally or globally. If the submission is regional in nature, it must be capable of more widespread application.
• It must satisfy a preliminary evaluation according to 5 predetermined core values, by an appointed assessor, before being posted. That evaluation is final, however if your submission has some merit yet is rejected, we will offer some simple pointers and you are welcome to submit a substantially improved proposal.

Submissions will ideally be formatted in 3 sections:

1. The nature of the problem it seeks to address.
2. The proposed solution to the problem.
3. How that solution can be implemented.

All ideas will be freely available for use by anybody anywhere in the world, and should be submitted in the interests of co-creating a brilliant world.

We’d like to offer some suggestions that might be helpful to you:

• We are interested in what you are for, not what you are against. Please outline the problem you seek to address in a non-judgmental manner.
• Please consider the implications of each of the core values for your idea. Doing so might improve your submission and help you in the judging.
• Originality is important. We are looking for inspired, visionary thinking, not a rehash of someone else’s philosophy. An exception to that might be a highly original way of applying the social contribution of someone else. At all times our intention is develop a database of ideas that will enable an emerging critical mass of humanity to create the blueprint for – and insist upon – a brilliant world.
• Be idealistic, not just pragmatic. Think in terms of utopia, not improvement of the status quo. Miracles happen when we dare to dream.
• We suggest you get your submission in as early as possible. As members comment on your submission, you are allowed to fine-tune your submission right up until entries close. Also, submissions that come in after yours will have to be substantially different in order to be successful.
• Although this is a competition of sorts, the intention is to assemble brilliant ideas that will benefit us all. Please participate in brilliantworld.org in a spirit of open co-operation, so that even if you have submitted an idea, you might still offer encouraging suggestions to other submitters.

1. Originality… Will the submission lead to a new and better paradigm? Or is it merely an improvement on a flawed model?
2. Empowerment… Does it deliver people from subjugation or disenfranchisement and enable them to assume responsibility for their lives?
3. Open Co-operation… Does it bring people together to collaborate towards better realities, rather than compete with each other for personal gain? Does it enhance our sense of community?
4. Self-sufficiency… Does the vision increase our ability to supply our own living requirements in our community or region?
5. Sustainability… Does the vision lessen our dependence on materials and practices that are harmful to our environment and detrimental to our long-term survival? Does it encourage us to show greater respect for Nature?

Submissions from children under 18

It is likely that children’s ideas will not spring from an understanding of what’s wrong with our current world; that they will simply want to spell out their inspired visions.

We welcome that and request minimal parental supervision. Please let the idea stand exactly as the child would like to present it.

Children’s submissions will not be eligible for either judging or prize-money.

Prize money

An award of AUD$5000 will be made to the best submission, or allocated amongst the best submissions. That money is being provided by the founder’s business, Blessed Earth

We were hoping to invite others to provide sponsorship monies as well but our advice is that the legal costs would be prohibitive. We invite any suggestions on this.

Commenting

If you wish to comment on a submission and have a vote in the final judging, you will need to become a registered voter.

The administrators of brilliantworld.org reserve the right to remove inappropriate comments from the website and revoke membership without explanation. We invite members to let the administrators know if inappropriate comments are posted