three permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation

• youth

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

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• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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• Awards and prizes

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• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency

• The Tech
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• Watchdogging and transparency

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• cities

• Awards and prizes

innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

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Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.

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• Fieldwide resources

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

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With Andrew Young

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Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the county, these awards are presented during NACo’s annual conference held each July.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy

• state

• The Tech
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• Govtech

A compendium of companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies.

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• Govtech

The use of prizes and awards is a visible element of the Obama Administration’s efforts to promote innovation in government

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• Awards and prizes

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.

• cities

• The Tech
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• Govtech

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The European Social Innovation Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all European countries

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"Honour a financial services or technology organisation for its outstanding contribution to a charitable cause, for example, through funds donated, services offered pro-bono, or a creative volunteer programme"

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• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources