The use of prizes and awards is a visible element of the Obama Administration’s efforts to promote innovation in government. For example, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has sponsored a competition among federal employees to find cost savings and the White House has created the “challenge.gov” website where federal agencies can pose problems in hopes of getting

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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 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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The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

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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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• Fieldwide resources

Mozilla Festival (MozFest) brings the world together to leave the internet better than we found it. Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, invites you to our annual interactive festival in London, England. Come shape our best future online.

• 2023 Webby Awards

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• In-person meetings

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

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• Govtech

CivicTech4Democracy is the European Union’s global competition showcasing democratic innovation by Citizens for Citizens across the world. Every day, everywhere, citizens invent new ways of bringing democracy closer to the people.

• European Union

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With Andrew Young

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It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Foundational layers

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.

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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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Le Hackie Awards is our chance to celebrate the awesome achievements of the legal hacking movement in DC.

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Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency

• The Tech
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• Watchdogging and transparency

AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app

• cities

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

We’re excited to share our second annual list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.

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This portal makes available data on the City of Cape Town to increase transparency in its processes and actively involve residents and other stakeholders in local government, as well as promote economic opportunity.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

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• Govtech

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• Media
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Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

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The hundreds of progressive organizers attending NOI’s RootsCamp voted — and SmartVAN won as the Most Valuable Technology!

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This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.

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• Civic data