Latest News Clearly Campaign Sets Deadline to Enter Contest to Combat Poor Vision By Staff Friday, June 3, 2016 12:15 AM James Chen. HONG KONG—Organizers of Clearly, a year-long campaign to combat poor vision, have set July 18, 2016 as the deadline for entering The Clearly Vision Prize, a competition to find the most innovative solutions for improving sight throughout the world. First announced in April, 2016, The Clearly Vision Prize will award $250,000 of seed funding and mentoring to innovators to help them get their best ideas off the ground, as VMail reported. The prize aims to provide solutions across the following areas:• Improving reliable detection, regardless of where people live, their age or gender.• Using technology for training, to identify the conditions that lead to poor vision.• Enhancing supply networks, to give access to basic solutions like glasses.• Harnessing insights and data, to help eyecare providers work more efficiently. Entrepreneurs, technologists, supply chain experts, data scientists and forward thinkers are being asked by Clearly to share creative solutions, including drawing upon innovation currently used in other areas, to help the 2.5 billion people around the world suffering from poor vision, who have no means of improving it.The Clearly Vision Prize and the Clearly campaign are spearheaded by James Chen, a Hong Kong-based philanthropist and investor.“We need technology gurus, supply chain experts, data wizards and more to share their ideas and enter The Clearly Vision Prize. These people could put glasses in the hands of everyone who needs them or give more children access to vision correction and the education that follows.”Alongside the Clearly Vision Prize, Clearly said its campaign will consist of two components: a series of ‘Clearly Labs’ challenges for individuals who have “the ingenuity and the heart to aim as high as possible to help find the answers.” Innovators will come together for one day events in Hong Kong, New York, Silicon Valley, London and other global markets, meeting with health leaders and optometrists, applying their expertise and ideas to help find new thinking, new ideas and new solutions.The other component of the campaign is a unique, global event with a small group of the world’s best and most creative brainpower in one place to develop the big idea, Clearly said.Over the summer of 201, contest entries will go through two rounds of judging, before the winning idea is announced in mid-October.The Clearly Vision Prize and Clearly Labs have been endorsed by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). For more information and to enter the Clearly Vision Prize, click here.