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?
Homevida
The Nigeria Integrity Film Awards (HomeVida) is a unique platform that provides incentives for young scriptwriters and filmmakers to promote integrity values using film while influencing the wider pub...
SDI Digital Democracy Awards
The 2021 SDI Digital Democracy Awards seek to recognise these achievements by awarding category winners across Inspiration, Innovation, Inclusion & Impact.
Engaged Cities Award
We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.
Inclusive Fintech 50
The Inclusive Fintech 50 initiative leverages a competitive process led by an independent judging panel of experts to identify 50 early-stage fintechs driving financial inclusion and resilience.
European Press Prize
Good journalism is one of the hallmarks of civilized society
Collaborative Innovation: Public Sector Prizes
Apolitical 100 Future Leaders
The Most Influential Young People in Government Across the World
Female Govtech Leaders
Who was nominated for the 2018 ranking - and who will you vote for?
Innovations in American Government Award
The Innovations in American Government Awards is the nation's preeminent program devoted to recognizing and promoting excellence and creativity in the public sector.
World Smart City Awards
The World Smart City Awards seek to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies that promote sustainable urban development around the globe.
Intelligent Community Awards
Annual awards program recognizing cities and communities worldwide for excellence in digital innovation and community development.
Route Fifty Navigator Awards 2018
Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.
Digital Counties
Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the county, these awards are presented during NACo’s annual conference held each July.
GovTech Top 25
A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.
National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) awards
Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy
Managing Innovation Prizes in Government
The use of prizes and awards is a visible element of the Obama Administration’s efforts to promote innovation in government
Digital Cities
Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.
Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
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...
European Social Innovation Competition
The European Social Innovation Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all European countries
The European 150
The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution
Fintech for Good Award
"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 p...
GovTech 100
A compendium of companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies.
Governing through prizes and challenges
With Andrew Young
Google.org Global Impact Awards
Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.
Bloomberg Philanthropies' U.S. Mayors Challenge
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.
Innovate Africa
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 m...
The Foilies
Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency
Government Experience Awards
For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.
Apolitical 100 digital government
We’re excited to share our second annual list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.
Code for America Technology Awards
The Code for America Technology Awards recognize outstanding products and implementations of government technology.
Digital States
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.
MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
EuroCities Awards
three permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation