Deadline: 05-Feb-2024
The Open Data Day (ODD) is excited to announce the launch of the General Mini-Grants to support organisations hosting open data events and activities across the world.
This call is open to any practices and disciplines carried out by open data communities around the world – such as hackathons, tool demos, artificial intelligence, climate emergency, digital strategies, open government, citizen participation, automation, monitoring, etc. Only mapping activities are excluded from this call.
Funding Information
- A total of 18 events will be supported with a grant amount of USD 300 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- The call welcomes all registered organisations across the world interested in hosting in-person open data events and activities in their country. An individual cannot apply, and the events cannot be virtual or online.
- The events supported by the grants should take place during the Open Data Day from 2nd to 8th March 2024 and must be registered at the Open Data Day website. To be awarded a mini-grant, the event must fit into this year’s thematic focus “Open Data for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.
- Registered civil society organisation events supported by the mini-grants cannot be used to fund government events. The grant payment will be transferred to the successful grantees after their event takes place and once the Open Knowledge Foundation team receives a draft blog post about the event.
Criteria
- The submitted events will be assessed by an organising committee made up of one member from each above sponsoring organisation, plus one member from Open Knowledge Ghana and one from Open Knowledge Nepal. Applications will be blind-reviewed and given a score according to the following criteria.
- Alignment with Open Data Day 2024 thematic focus
- Diversity within SDGs, and in terms of geography, gender, and type of activities
- Novelty/creativity of the proposal
- Community aspect: to what extent the proposal promotes community involvement (especially local communities)
- Achievability of the activity and level of commitment of the organisers when writing the proposal
- Organisations taking part in Open Data Day for the first time will receive an extra point, as will organisations that have not received mini-grants in past editions of the event.
- The winning organisations will be contacted from 19th February. The official announcement of the list of grantees will be made on 26th February.
For more information, visit ODD.