Knight News Challenge seeks projects on data

Nonprofits, for profits or individuals of any age can submit innovative ideas.

The Knight News Challenge is a contest that aims to accelerate innovation in news and information by funding the best new ideas and supporting them through its network of peers and advisors.

This challenge seeks ideas and projects that use data for good to inform and empower people to make decisions about their lives, their communities and democracy.

All kinds of ideas are welcome, from new ways to collect, analyze, present, interpret and share data, to better journalism and data-enhanced storytelling techniques, to ways to promote transparency, security and privacy.

Winners will receive a share of US$3 million. The contest is a collaboration between the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Data & Society and the Open Society Foundations.

Applications must be in English, but projects can take place worldwide. The deadline to submit ideas is Sept. 30.

For more information, click here.

(sursa: International Journalists’ Network)