Super Happiness Challenge rewards solutions that help people become happier

The Super Happiness Challenge (SHC) is one of the first initiatives of Project Heha—a worldwide movement to help people achieve super happiness, and co-create a happier world.

In partnership with Singularity University, the Super Happiness Challenge was a global open innovation contest that began in May 2017 to find individuals and startups with ideas and new products or services that tapped into unmet needs to co-create a happier world. The Super Happiness Challenge received 528 submissions from over a thousand people representing 74 countries and six continents.

On Oct 20, 2017 in Silicon Valley, the five finalists from the Idea Track, and the five finalists from the Startup Track met to present their solutions to the judges for their chance to win cash prizes totalling USD100,000 and the opportunity to receive up to $1 million in additional investment.

The judging panel included Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab Director; Dr. Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Harvard University Professor; Sammy Lee, Project Heha founder, and Chairman and Chief Invisible Officer of LKK Health Products Group; Jennifer Jolly, Emmy Award Winning Tech-Life Journalist; and Pascal Finette, Singularity University Vice President for Startup Solutions. Judges were looking for creativity, scalability and feasibility in the ideas presented to them, plus, of course the ability to impact happiness.

Startup Track Grand Prize

WeFarm is a UK based company that launched in 2015. It is used by over 453,000 farmers, and expects to reach 1 million by April 2018. WeFarm works both online and over SMS using machine learning algorithms to enable farmers working in 500 million small scale farms connect with one another around the world to solve problems, share ideas and spread innovations.

Knowledge shared on WeFarm can help farmers produce higher quality products, increase yields, gain insights into marketing pricing, tackle the effects of climate change, source the best seeds, fertilizer and loans, and diversify agricultural interests. For example, Michael, a tea farmer in Kenya, increased his yield by 95% in just one year with the help of WeFarm.

Idea Track Grand Prize

Garbage Medical Insurance(GHI), is based in Tanzania.

GHI is a micro-insurance plan to use garbage as a financial resource. With this program, those uninsured and living in poverty are able to pay for health coverage, drugs, and other clinical services by using the collection of garbage as payment to insurers. GHI also offers the community an incentive to start an organized waste management and entrepreneurship system at the household level.

As part of this competition, we are launching a book called “Project Heha: The Movement to Co-Create a Happier World,”. The book aims to deliver a unique framework for habit changes to help people achieve true happiness, and help others to become happy too. After you read the book, we hope you will join in a global movement to make a happier world. You can enjoy the book in a printed version, as an eBook, or an audio book.

ABOUT THE SUPER HAPPINESS CHALLENGE

Super Happiness Challenge is a global competition that calls for ideas and startups that share the same mission as Project Heha to co-create a happier world. For more information on Super Happiness Challenge, go to https://www.superhappinesschallenge.com

ABOUT PROJECT HEHA

Project Heha is a movement to co-create a world of Super Happiness. Heha was founded by Sammy Lee, the Chairman and Chief Invisible Officer of LKK Health Products Group (LKKHPG). Project Heha aims to help everyone of us live a super happy life through habit changes prompted by a unique "5+1+Others" program, and by helping other people. For more information on Project Heha, go to https://www.projectheha.com.

ABOUT SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY

Singularity University (SU) is a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the world's biggest challenges and build an abundant future for all. SU's collaborative platform empowers individuals and organizations across the globe to learn, connect, and innovate breakthrough solutions using accelerating technologies. To learn more, visit SU.org.