Winners of INDEX Design Award announced

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Winners of INDEX, Denmark-based world's largest sustainable design prize were announced on Friday.

According to Kigge Hvid, CEO of a Danish non-profit organization, this year's winners include cutting-edge digital technology, Ethereum to innovators of string makers from cardboard. Others include Paperfuge and Zipline, the world's first national medical drone service.

Government of Rwanda won the award under body category for their work Zipline that delivers emergency medicines through drones.

INDEX: award 2017, BODY category winner, Zipline. /Photo via INDEX: AWARD 2017

Paperfuge that transformed a 20-cent toy into blood testing equipment using centrifugal force for diagnosing malaria, HIV and tuberculosis, won the award in the play & learning category.

Greenwave was awarded under work category. Greenwave is a sustainable, vertical ocean farming project. With the recent studies suggesting that seafood will run out by 2048, the Greenwave aims to restore ocean ecosystems, mitigate climate change, and create jobs for fishermen.

INDEX: award 2017, HOME category winner, What3words. /Photo via INDEX: AWARD 2017

What3words clinched award under home category, it enhances and communicates location services.

Winners of each category were given 100,000 euros. The bi-annual prize, also referred to as Nobel Prize of Design, was established in 2005. It received over 6,100 nominations from more than 100 countries and regions. This year, it received 1,401 nominations from 85 countries and regions.

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Source(s): Xinhua News Agency