Google Solution Challenge
The canonical Platform Ecosystem Challenge. Includes the structural shift from a single global stage to regional competitions in 2025. Participant-authored problem statements with the Impact-plus-Technology rubric.
The Google Solution Challenge is the canonical Platform Ecosystem Challenge. Run annually by Google Developers across more than 110 countries, the program uses the United Nations' seventeen Sustainable Development Goals as an externally-provided frame and asks participant teams to author their own problem statements within that frame. Every entry is judged against a fifty-point rubric splitting twenty-five points for Impact and twenty-five points for Technology. The 2025 edition introduced a structural shift from a single global stage to regional competitions. Full case study queued for post-launch publication; the Manifesto principles below cover the structural argument the case will operationalize.
Structural analysis
Pending. The full case study will cover the participant-authored problem-statement architecture, the Impact-plus-Technology rubric as a worked example of an abstracted uniform rubric, and the 2025 regional split as a response to the geographic-disparity failure mode that becomes visible at global scale.
What worked
Pending.
What didn't
Pending.