• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

2021 book edited by Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

• books

• Books
• Group decision making
• Political parties

The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

• apps
• students
• youth

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

mid-sized cities across America to develop ideas for an integrated,first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data,applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly,cheaply, and efficiently. The Challenge generated an overwhelming response:78 applicant cities shared the challenges they face and ideas for how totackle them.

• cities
• mass transit

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

The AR Developer Challenge is a series of community-driven competition events focused on solving problems in areas such as healthcare, education, workforce development, and more. Developers for the AR Challenge events will use technologies like Facebook’s Spark AR platform and other AR solutions to compete for prizes and community recognition. Organized by US Ignite and Facebook Reality Labs

• mass transit
• Facebook

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Walking tours

by AI Initiative

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date. After uncovering the 50 most innovative urban solutions in the wake of COVID-19, the Challenge will award 15 grand prize winners $1 million each—to help cities implement their breakthrough ideas and, ultimately, to spread those ideas to other cities on a global scale.

• cities

• Get funding
• Challenges

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Code for America announce the launch of tools for local communities interested in identifying areas for economic growth using 22 environmental sustainability indicators, including job growth, value-added, air quality, climate impact, energy, water, and land use across 389 industry sectors.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Challenges

An engagement program

• homelessness
• crime
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

1776, and partner host Revolution, will be hosting the annual Challenge Cup competition, click here to learn more!

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Pew Trusts report: What the changes mean for the millions of people who interact with the civil legal system each year—and what remains to be done

• reports

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

IBM-sponsored challenge for creating and deploying open source technologies to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

• women

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Challenges

The COVID Challenge Platform is a no-cost clearinghouse to connect healthcare and government agencies to the resources they urgently need to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The People
• Get funding
• COVID

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The Google.org Impact Challenge Bay Area is an open invitation to organizations across the Bay Area to submit their ideas to address some of the most challenging societal issues facing our community today. The 5 boldest and brightest ideas will be selected to receive $1 million in funding and support from Google.

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

With Andrew Young

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

It is a competition designed to help city leaders think big, be bold and uncover inventive – and, ultimately shareable – ideas that tackle today’s toughest problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Simpl Challenges is the challenge platform for socially minded organisations

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

At Mikva Challenge, we challenge high school students, teachers, and schools across Chicagoland to be active participants in the political process.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Spanish regional bank BBVA shared anonymized credit card transactions data with participating developers in its Innova Challenge.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

The Civic Innovation Challenge aims to leverage social science, data, and technology to address complex community challenges, enhance job growth and economic competitiveness, and address equity in our communities.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

One Idea, One Minute to Apply, and the Chance to Win $50,000!

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Individuals, students, entrepreneurs, start-ups, academia, private companies, nonprofits and public sector agencies from member countries of the World Bank Group shared innovative solutions and ideas for tackling real-world, actionable climate challenges.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Challenge is a three-phase, prize-based competition to find technology-based solutions that address or improve opioid abuse prevention, treatment and overdose avoidance and response.

• opioids

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

• cities
• mobility
• planning

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

A 'big data for innovation' competition using telecom data

• The People
• Get funding
• Data science for social good

As part of a wide-ranging effort to upgrade the subway system’s capacity and reliability, all the winning ideas will be thoroughly vetted and further developed as quickly as possible with future procurements subject to any required MTA Board approval.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Propose bold ideas that solve for real urban needs, improve the way we live, support a thriving economy, and create good-paying jobs.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

• youth
• Microsoft

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery

• The People
• Get funding
• Emerging tech

to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.

• guides

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Civic tech catalogs