The following comprehensive process will be followed to select the award winners in all categories.

Importantly, the process is nearly completely independent of interventions by the TBE Media Group as organizers of the awards in order to ensure complete objectivity based purely on technical considerations. Consequently the role of the organizers is restricted to contracting the research consultants, the Awards Jury members and the audit firm that will authenticate the results of the scoring process.; providing the requisite logistics and platforms for them to execute their responsibilities; providing the assessment criteria to guide the quantitative evaluation of core academic nominees and some of the criteria for assessing non-core academic nominees (some of the criteria being devised by the research consultants and the Awards Jury in conjunction with each other); coordinating the activities of the various members involved in executing the selection process; and organizing the awards conferment event itself. The organizers have established a dedicated secretariat to fulfill its roles and responsibilities with regards to this awards scheme. The Process

1) Nominations are invited from the general public and aspiring contenders for awards;

2) Nominations are examined by the research consultants to ascertain they meet the eligibility requirements;

3) Nominations are assessed by the research consultants to ascertain whether they meet the basic selection criteria;

4) Nominations ascertained to meet the eligibility requirements and the basic selection criteria are then forwarded as a nomination short list to the Awards Selection Jury;

5) The Jury then meets to consider each nomination for the various categories. Each juror would score each nominee using the quantitative assessment model described above;

6) The scores of each juror for each nominee are then aggregated to determine each nominee’s overall score:

7) The computations used to determine each overall score are validated by the audit firm contracted specifically for this purpose and the validated results are forwarded to the organizers;

8) The organizers then determine the winners in each categories. based on the validated scores and confirm acceptance by the winners in the form of their agreement to comply with the sole term/condition.