Press Release
Beyond the ‘Volume of the Crowd’ — Impact Hallmarks [IH]©️ to Unveil the Global Record of ‘Essential’ Human Progress (2000–2025)
LONDON / GLOBAL — 02/10/2026 — As the first quarter-century of the 21st-century has concluded and the second quarter-century has started, the Impact Hallmarks [IH]©️, on this quarticentennial threshold, is set to present the Quarticentennial Merited Impacts Gazette©️. This landmark ‘merit indexing’ represents a critical evolutionary, as well as revolutionary shift and a transformative approach in global historiography — moving away from the “soft-glamorising-targets” of celebrity culture toward an “uphill task on hands” of the merit-bound impact-mapping.
The MIV Framework — The 21st-Century’s Categorical Mirror of Rectitude
Unlike traditional fame contests that operate on the superficial metric of digital volume, the Gazette utilizes the Merited Impact Value (MIV) framework. This high-calibre academic architecture demarcates the boundary between transient public fascination and sustainable, paradigm-shifting contributions.
The MIV holds fast to three essential fabric-cores:
Humanitarian Impact Merit (HIM): Assessing the depth of humane progress.
Scientific Impact Merit (SIM): Evaluating breakthroughs in the hard sciences and knowledge-centricity. Resilience Impact Merit (RIM): Measuring the endurance of impacts through the multifarious challenges of the 21st century.
Methodological Rectitude: The Academic/Scientific Filter
To ensure unbending intellectual honesty, the Gazette’s selection process is anchored in authenticated, institutionalized records rather than snapshots of current attention. The methodology involves a multi-tiered screening of over 1.9 million profiles derived from academic journals, institutional archives, and satellite imagery records.
A team of over 150 nonaligned, neutral assessors evaluates these nominees based on “trans-boundary and cross-boundary integrated themes,” ensuring the selection transcends national and political biases.
The International Opinion Poll — Validation, Not Arbitration
Addressing the “Popularity Paradox,” Impact Hallmarks clarifies that its International Opinion Poll is not a mere popularity contest. Instead, it serves as a “Validation Layer.”
“The poll measures the resonance of merit among the global citizenry,” says the IH Research Team. “It ensures that impact is not only recognized by the political, corporate, and media elite but is felt by the collective and ‘common sense of merit.’ It is the final merit-bound step in our academic filter.”
The Triarchy of Merit
The Gazette focuses on a “Top Triarchy” of systemic global change:
1- Human-Centricity
2- Knowledge-Centricity
3- Nature-Centricity
For a nominee to be hallmarked, his/her impact must be Quarticentennial in duration (transcending archives cycles), Systemic in scope (altering the very means and measure of merit), and Ethically anchored to the IH©️ emblems of “meriting the merited impacts” and “valuing the impact value.”
“Spanning the vast spatio-temporal tapestry of our era—from the towering mountains of human ambition to the deepest oceans of scientific discovery—every pulse of progress is captured here.
From the soaring mountains of China to the searing deserts of Africa, and from the rising moments of the very first sunshine of 2000 to the final sunset of December 2025 —from Shige, Yukio & Chen Si to Greta Thunberg & Orion Jean; from Messi, Lionel & Ronaldo, Cristiano to Prince Harry & Markle, Meghan; from the US Psychologist Stephen Soldz & Scott Ruskan to Indian Humanitarian Kailash Satyarthi & Nitesh Jangir; from the polymathic icons like Dr. Fritjof Capra & Prof. Aurangzeb Hafi to the trailblazing icons like Usain Bolt & Elon Musk; from Jacinda Ardern & Bill Gates to Jones, Aileen & Sophie Grant Crookston, and finally, from the posthumous legacy icons like Kofi Annan & Nelson Mandela to Bilquis Edhi & Dr. Ruth Pfau—all are presented hereby to be voted by you to be chronicled for Quarticentennial Merit.
Let’s chronicle the world’s transformative journey within a resolute, merit-bound mirror of the 21st century with unbending impartiality and undeviating intellectual honesty.”
Toward a New Moral Compass
As we approach the terminal moments of this twenty-five-year assessment, the Quarticentennial Merited Impacts Gazette©️ stands as a record of the essential. It ensures that the history of our century is written by the ink of merit, not merely by the visibility metrics of a crowd.
The final titles symbolizing Quarticentennial Merited Impactfulness are scheduled for global broadcast on 03/01/2026.