While none of the following is absolutely required, positive considerations in assessing applications for additional funding will consider:

· whether a paper, abstract or poster submission by the applicant has been accepted by the conference,
· stature and authoritative position of the candidate,
· low per capita income ranking of the nation (NationIncomeRankings.pdf) in which the applicant resides,
· geographic representation with an emphasis for this conference on South and central America as well as Caribbean,
· disciplinary and sector (private, government, non-profit) representation,
· links to emergent or developing SDI projects,
· encouragement of early career scholars and student representation, and
· other such factors as the evaluation team deems appropriate..