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Open Call for New Commons Challenge

Deadline: 2-Jun-25

The Open Data Policy Lab invites global changemakers to propose innovative data commons for generative AI that serves the public interest.

By enhancing data diversity, quality, and provenance, they can unlock AI’s potential to innovate and solve complex challenges.

Objectives
  • Reimagine ways to expand responsible access to diverse datasets, including new and existing data sources.
  • Demonstrate how data commons can be deployed, managed, and maintained.
  • Demonstrate real-world impact by creating tangible benefits for end users.
Priority Areas
  • Strengthen Disaster Response: data commons that empower humanitarian actors to make informed decisions before, during, and after emergencies. By providing timely and accurate information, they can enhance disaster response efforts and save lives.
  • Enabling Localized Decision-Making: data commons that provide access to diverse, high-quality datasets, enabling actors within a local context to enhance coordination, use information effectively, and make informed decisions tailored to their specific needs and circumstances, such as for public health, urban planning, or environmental preservation.
Prize Information
  • The New Commons Challenge will select two winning proposals to receive the following support package:
    • Two winners
    • US$100,000 in funding each
    • Mentorship on establishing and managing data commons
    • Technical support as needed
    • Access to the Open Data Policy Lab’s global network of experts
What are they looking for?
  • Improve Localized Decision-making:
    • Help local leaders make better policy or improve their reasoning capabilities through improved access to or insights from data
  • Humanitarian Interventions:
    • Strengthen disaster response capabilities using AI.
Eligibility Criteria
  • They welcome applicants from across backgrounds and fields. They feel this challenge may be most applicable to nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, start-ups, and development organizations.
  • Applicants must be affiliated with an established organization. If invited to submit a full proposal, applicants must provide information about the tax status of their organization.
Ineligibility Criteria
  • Government entities are not eligible to participate. For-profit entities submitting proposals to the New Commons Challenge may undergo extra review to ensure that their proposal aids the public on an issue related to humanitarian response and/or localized decision-making.
Applications Requirements
  • The following criteria apply to all New Commons Challenge submissions:
    • Entrants must submit responses using the New Commons Challenge entry form.
    • As part of this entry form, entrants must provide a letter of support from an institution supporter (e.g. nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, start-ups, development organizations, and local or tribal authorities) who can act on the insights to be generated by the data commons or otherwise sustain the effort.
    • All submission materials must be in the English language.

For more information, visit The Governance Lab.