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Global Innovation Competition to have a focus on legislative openness

Posted September 10, 2014 at 3:59pm by danswislow

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Photo credit: Making All Voices Count

On September 15, Making All Voices Count (MAVC), a global initiative that aims to create opportunities for new ideas and technologies that strengthen citizen engagement and government responsiveness, is launching its second Global Innovation Competition (GIC). In this year’s competition, Making All Voices Count is seeking ideas relating to four themes, including legislative openness. 

£300,000 in grants are available to winners who propose projects in a limited set of countries: Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Indonesia, the Philippines, Liberia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mozambique, Uganda and Nigeria.

This announcement comes on the heels of the Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW), being organized by the Legislative Openness Working Group of the Open Government Partnership, that will see events and conversations relating to legislative openness happening around the world. The GIC offers an important platform to help translate many of these discussions into new tools and innovations to help parliaments better represent citizens, and to help citizens better engage and communicate with their elected representatives.

You can read more about the competition at MAVC’s website.

Funding opportunity: Knight Foundation News Challenge on open government

Posted February 15, 2013 at 12:45pm by danswislow

The Knight Foundation is looking to fund innovative initiatives that focus on open government in their newly launched News Challenge, which has committed $5 million to these projects.

Knight Foundation’s John Bracken said this about the Challenge:

Our goal with the News Challenge is neither to shrink government nor to make government work less frustrating, but rather to surface ideas that improve the way citizens engage with their government. We expect that some of those proposals will be about “massively reinventing” the way government works; others will be more modest ideas about refining the relationship between citizens and the state, or between citizens and other citizens.

Click here to read more.