The purpose of the Best Paper Award is to recognize and promote quality contributions to academic research and writing among scholars and students who present and publish papers at the ICCII'24 conference. All full papers submitted and published in the ICCII'24 conference publications of the year (main proceedings and selected papers), regardless of the status of the first authors (i.e., scholar, student, educator, policy maker or professional, etc.) are eligible for competition for the Best Paper Award. Each paper will be given a score of 0 – 10 (where 0 is the lowest and 10 is the highest score) against each criterion.

• Originality (weighting 40%) – Originality of contribution to knowledge with an emphasis on the paper’s innovativeness in: (i) theoretical development, (ii) empirical results or, (iii) policy development.

• Quality of Argument (weighting 30%) incorporating:  - (i) critical analysis of concepts, theories and findings, and (ii) consistency and coherency of debate.

• Positioning (weighting 15%) – Clear positioning of paper in existing international literature with a conclusion(s) that is both convincing and of significant potential.

• Writing Style (weighting 15%) – Quality of writing style in term of accuracy, clarity, readability, and organization of the paper.