Awards and prizes
Funders offer both regular and one-off prizes to recognize and fund civic tech and its practitioners. These are usually granted for work already done, whereas the Challenges category sets a goal and offers to reward those who meet it.
Suggested reading:
- A primer on Grand Innovation Prizes – The Mercatus Center (2020)
- Is It Time for a Moratorium on Digital Development Awards?
Partisan Awards
Recognising Excellence in Political Work
Ellsberg Whistleblower Award
The International Ellsberg Whistleblower Award (EWA) honours the integrity and courage of whistleblowers and their allies for disclosing information that significantly enhances free public or scientif...
Privacy & Human Rights Award
Privacy & Human Rights Award
OpenUK Awards
OpenUK’s Awards and Honours Lists are part of a UK-focused, world leading recognition programme for open tech.
Digital Service Champions Awards
The 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards celebrate excellence in digital government modernization.
Strengthening Democracy Awards
Every year, Civic Nebraska honors individuals and organizations across the state who go above and beyond to build a more modern and robust democracy. These aren’t celebrities or elected officials (alt...
Bewährt vor Ort
Ausgezeichnet werden kommunale Projekte, die in der Praxis nachweislich funktionieren und das Potenzial haben, bundesweit als Vorbild zu wirken.
Poynter Journalism Prizes
10 prizes honor best in U.S. journalism, including accountability journalism and innovation in journalism
Nominate a Rising Civic AI Leader (Aspen Digital)
Aspen Digital and the Aspen Policy Academy are launching a new program for Rising Civic AI Leaders to educate newly hired state and local government employees in charge of managing the adoption and im...
Public Space Awards
Come and join the Open Plans community on Thursday, May 1st for a festive celebration of the people behind our city’s defining public spaces.
Open Gov Challenge Awards
The Open Gov Challenge Awards recognize the best initiatives submitted to the Open Gov Challenge, a global call to action aimed to encourage ambition in ten areas of open government critical to streng...
Access Info Impact Award
The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmenta...
European Public Sector Award (EPSA)
EPSA – the European Public Sector Award – is a Europe-wide award scheme for public sector entities at all levels of government which has been organised every two years since 2009 by the European Insti...
Prêmio "CLEODON SILVA" de Soluções Digitais Livres
A iniciativa visa fomentar o desenvolvimento de soluções inovadoras para a gestão do fomento à cultura no Brasil, em homenagem à memória de Cleodon Silva.
Democracy Courage Tributes
To express and build solidarity, the World Movement for Democracy presents the Democracy Courage Tributes to give special recognition to the extraordinary efforts of groups and movements working under...
Code for America Innovator Awards
The Code for America Innovator Awards honor groups or individuals that are shaping the path forward in the government and civic tech community.
Le Prix de l’Innovation Fédérale
Core Values Awards
IAP2 program celebrating excellence in public participation
Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award honours innovators within or associated with the public sector.
Peabody Global Impact Awards
The Global Impact Award recognizes media or organizations that have profoundly changed the world for the better.
Cyber Policy Awards
The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), in partnership with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Cyber Policy Awards—an annual gath...
Tussell Tech200
Tussell & techUK are thrilled to share the 3rd annual Tech200 awards - our list of the 200 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK public sector, from FY 2021/22 to FY 2022/23.
European Institute of Innovation and Technology Summit Changemaker Award
The Changemaker Award, which celebrates and recognises the best role model and leader from within the EIT Community's education programmes, and whose activities and achievements have the potential to...
CampaignTech Awards
The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.
World Summit Awards (WSA)
WSA (World Summit Awards) is a unique awards system, selecting and promoting local digital innovation to improve society.
.ORG Impact Awards
.ORG Impact Awards (OIAs) recognizes and rewards those who have achieved meaningful success, often overcoming difficult challenges with few resources
European Social Services Awards
Organised by the European Social Network, the Awards shine a spotlight on successful new approaches and the extraordinary ongoing work of public social services managers, funders, planners, providers,...
Mozilla Rise 25
Help us identify and recognize the next 25 game-changers shaping the future of the internet to be more ethical, responsible and inclusive.
GlobalFact 10 Awards
We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.
Heintzman Leadership Award
The Heintzman Leadership Award (HLA) is presented annually by the Institute for Citizen-Centred Service (ICCS) to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership within the Canadian public s...
The Webby Awards: Games - Social Impact
An award for the best games for social impact of the year
Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital
El Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital es un concurso online y gratuito donde pueden participar todas las iniciativas digitales de diversa índole (web, blogs, redes sociales u otras herramientas...
Центральноазиатская медиапрограмма MediaCAMP Award Central Asia
"Journalists and bloggers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan can enter this contest." - International Journalists' Network
Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards
The Schwab Foundation’s 2023 Awards seeks to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society in four different award categories
European Citizen's Prize
It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openne...
Kevin Roose's Good Tech Awards
An annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times
Democracy Network UK's Democracy Awards
For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.
Datum Awards
Nominees are individuals who are champions for the use of data in evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and accountability.
Future of Government Awards
The Future of Government Awards champions practitioners, teams and leaders who are transforming people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for t...
공익제보자가 외롭지 않도록
An award for the public interest whistleblower of the year
The Innovation in Politics Awards
The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative solutions for today’s challenges.
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 th...
Technology Innovation Awards
Does your nonprofit have a technology related project idea that will advance your mission?
Mozilla's Creative Media Awards
Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed
LaborTech Book & Graduate Student Paper Awards
We aim to reframe the conversation about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism.
News Leaders Association Awards
RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
IDC Smart Cities Awards
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
Analyst Institute Expy Awards
The Analyst Institute's Expy Awards recognize innovation in political organizing efficacy
Nesta Democracy Pioneers
Democracy Pioneers is an award for innovations that are experimenting with ways to re-energise civic participation and everyday democracy in the UK.
Anthem Awards's Responsible Tech categories
Celebrating purpose & mission-driven work from people, companies and organizations worldwide.