Challenges
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.
Suggested reading:
- Seven tips for running your next impact challenge by the Centre for Public Impact
OSINT CTF Platform
A dedicated platform to train and improve your OSINT investigation skills through realistic, scenario-based challenges designed to simulate real-world research and digital tracing.
National University Student Competition: Intellectual Property and Technology
The National University Student Competition: Intellectual Property and Technology is a simulated arbitration process competition that serves as an alternative and peaceful means of conflict resolution...
Crowdpolicy Innovation Management Platform
The innovation management platform by Crowdpolicy helps organizations to run innovation programs with the right guidelines, organizational methods and advanced functions, tested in numerous implementa...
Crowd_Ideabox
Crowd_Ideabox is a direct and easy way to submit, collect and evaluate ideas inside an organization.
GNOVA Desafios
Desafios é uma plataforma da GNova para conectar sociedade e gestores públicos na busca por soluções que fazem a diferença no país inteiro. Vamos inovar juntos?
Acessibilidade Digital Challenge
O Acessibilidade Digital Challenge visa capacitar as equipas técnicas dos municípios portugueses a obterem a Declaração de Acessibilidade para os seus sítios web
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
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 resilie...
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)
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...
Retos
Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies UK US prize challenges
Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges
Congressional App Challenge
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...
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 th...
Just One Giant Lab
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
We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.
Aklemio (formerly Cherrytwist)
An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.
MyGov Innovate
India's open challenge platform
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.
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 t...
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
NYC Connectivity Challenge
De Blasio Administration Launches NYCx to Stimulate Economic Growth, Create Jobs and Solve Big Challenges Through New Technologies
Google.org
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...
Census Accelerate Video Challenge
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...
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.
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.
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.
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