Avez vous une idée antastique pour former une ommunauté en utilisant es informations, y inclus es média digitales?

Obtenez les moyens inanciers pour l’effectuer!

Tout le monde peut faire la emande!

This is the spanish welcome page.

Gesucht: Ideen und Projekte zur Foerderung von Gemeinwesen durch News, Information und digitale Medien.

Wir geben Dir Geld, um Deine Ideen zu verwirklichen.

Zugelassen: jeder weltweit.

This is the portugese page.

This is welcome in Korean

Anyone, anywhere , from a high school student in Beijing to a business executive in New York.

This
competition is open to nonprofits, companies or individuals of any age
and anywhere in the world. The question is not who you are, but what
kind of idea you have.

You
do not need to be 18 years old to enter, but awards to minors will be
made to an intermediary designated by the Knight Foundation.

Anyone in the world 25 years of age or younger

Knight staff, outside digital media experts and the Foundation’s
journalism advisory committee review entries. Senior staff recommends
winners. Foundation trustees make the final decision.

October 15, 2007

Spring 2008

Awards will be distributed in 2008. Knight Foundation will work out a schedule with each winner.

Everywhere. You do not need to be a U.S. citizen to enter.

Anywhere in the world, but it must affect a specific geographic community.

The community can be as small as a city block or as big as a state or province.
If your idea is national in scope, it must work on a local level. (For
example, MTV won last year with the idea of putting Knight Mobile Youth
Journalists all over the country, but each one operated within his or
her own state.)

Here’s our thinking behind this:

Online
communities don’t need our help. Virtual communities spring up every
day. But using digital news and information to enhance physical
communities — that’s something we think does need our help.

The
reason we’re focusing on physical communities is that our democracy is
organized by geography. We want to help improve the lives of people
where they live, work and vote.

No entries by mail are accepted. Please apply here, on this site

Depending on the number of entrants, your odds of winning may be higher
for the Young Creators Award.  Your idea will be competing against
other people in your age group.  The playing field may give you an
advantage

Newspapers used to be the glue that held communities together.

The news they printed helped people identify problems and work together to find solutions.

TECHNOLOGY has changed everything.

Most of us use the internet, cell phones and other gadgets to find out what we want to know.

Although technology connects us with the world, it can leave us disconnected from those in our geographic community.

We want to help people use technology to find out what they want to know and what they need to know to improve their lives.

We want to bring people together in the real world through technology.

Because you have a big idea and you want to bring it to life.

Because you want to make your mark.

Because you want to do something that improves people’s lives.

• State the essence of your idea within the first two or three sentences.
• Ask someone who is not familiar with your project to proof-read your application for clarity.
• Make
  sure your applications meets the basic requirements (digital,
  news/information, limited geographic area, timely, open source,
  community-building – see FAQ item “What kind of projects will get
  funded?”

There are only two categories:

General
(open source, open standards) We’re looking for people with great ideas
who don’t quite know how to make them happen, or people who have an
exciting idea they want to test. You just have to use digital news and
information in a new way to create a sense of community for people in a
given geographic area.

Commercial
– Your idea is a for-profit product or service that will have positive
social impact. This category is for entrepreneurs whose ideas might not
have enough profit potential for venture capital. If you have an idea
we like in this category, we will help connect your company with the
funding it needs. We want more corporations to think about the double bottom line.

So the only question is whether your idea is for-profit or not.

There is no limit.