Come Up with a Best Idea for a Safer City of Durban

Marlan Padayachee, Media Consultant to Imagine Durban

CHRISTMAS could come early in the form of R500 each gift vouchers for 30 innovative and creative people who can come up with some brilliant ideas on one of the Imagine Durban themes before the November 30 deadline for all entries in the newly-launched “My Idea” competition.
Imagine Durban is a public-private sector partnership project led by the eThekwini Municipality and is being implemented in conjunction with Sustainable Cities, an NGO from Vancouver, Canada, and the PLUS Network of 35 cities in 14 countries that has been established to share experiences in sustainability planning. Imagine Durban is a process that has began mobilising government to non-government, civil society organisations, faith based groups, tertiary institutions, business organisations and ordinary citizens to imagine what we want our city to be like in the future and to create a path to begin taking us there today.
Imagine Durban has identified seven long-term sustainability themes to create public awareness and encourage public participation: Safe City, Caring & Commitment (Behaviour Change, Volunteerism, Human Value System, Family), Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation, Human Development, Accessibility, Future City / Eco City, and History, Heritage and Culture.

So how do you get involved and stand a chance to win gift vouchers.

Imagine Durban invite you to enter its "My Idea" Competition, aimed at capturing the innovative and creative thinking of individuals who have ideas on long term sustainability for the City of Durban. Entrants with winning ideas will one of 30 gift vouchers valued at R500 each.

How to enter? That's simple, either on line at http://www.imaginedurban.org/my-idea.html or by collecting an entry form from any Sizakala Customer Centres or Municipal Library and fill in the required information. The entry form is bilingual in English and isiZulu.

Your idea should focus on one of the Imagine Durban themes: creating a safer city, ensuring a more environmentally sustainable city, promoting an accessible city, creating a prosperous city, fostering a more caring and empowering city, and celebrating our cultural diversity, arts and heritage.

The next step would be to determine who best would be suited to implement these ideas? Should government, business or civil society implement your idea? Every question needs to be filled in and ensure that all your contact details are provided. Here’s a tip - your idea should be unique, but yet practical to implement.

Closing date for the competition is 30 November 2008. Entries can also be faxed to (031) 311 3446, or emailed to: imagine@durban.gov.za

For more information, email: imagine@durban.gov.za, or telephone Project Leader Thomas Ferreira on (031) 311 3424; or Project Assistant Zamah Ndlovu.
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