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The challenge model of innovation became popular in recent years due to its perceived effectiveness in spurring innovation. The challenges are usually open to all, in the hopes that the challenge program itself will generate increased interest in the problem area from a variety of potential innovators.

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Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit

The Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit is an in-person mentoring event and workshop to inspire the next-generation of solvers in rural communities.

AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge

Can modern AI help solve today’s critical challenges of climate change and nature loss? The Grand Challenge will offer up to $100 million in total funding over three rounds.

Innovation Flow

Civic tech accelerator hosted by the Scottish government. If you’re an ambitious and innovative individual, team or company, CivTech is an outstanding opportunity

Public Interest Cybersecurity Contest

Public Interest Cybersecurity Contest

United States of America (the)

The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is accepting proposals from members of the public interest cybersecurity community who have ideas that will advance the cybersecurity capacity and resilience of small critical infrastructure at the community level.

The Open Gov Challenge

The Open Government Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.

Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC)

Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC)

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

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

C² Challenge

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.

Retos

Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.

Congressional App Challenge

Congressional App Challenge

740 15th St. NW Washington D.C.

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.

WFP Innovation Challenge

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

European Capital of Democracy

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

Aklemio (formerly Cherrytwist)

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

Just One Giant Lab

Just One Giant Lab

Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) - 8 bis rue Charles V, 75004, Paris

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.

Bloomberg Cities Global Mayors Challenge

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date

Alkemio

Alkemio

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.

MyGov Innovate

MyGov Innovate

India (Bhārat)

India's open challenge platform

London Civic Innovation Challenge

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.

Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge

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.

Idea Generation and the Role of Feedback: Evidence from Field Experiments with Innovation Tournaments

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators a

Bloomberg Philanthropies' U.S. Mayors Challenge

Bloomberg Philanthropies' U.S. Mayors Challenge

25 East 78th Street New York, NY 10075

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.

Census Accelerate Video Challenge

Census Accelerate Video Challenge

United States of America (the)

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.

Google.org

Google.org

United States of America (the)

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

Microsoft AI for Good Challenge

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.

NYC Connectivity Challenge

De Blasio Administration Launches NYCx to Stimulate Economic Growth, Create Jobs and Solve Big Challenges Through New Technologies

The Impact of Visibility in Innovation Tournaments: Evidence from Field Experiments

Contests have a long history of driving innovation, and web-based information technology has opened up new possibilities for managing tournaments. One such poss

Impact Challenge Bay Area 2019

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

Mission Billion Challenge

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.

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