$5 Million for Knight News Challenge (UK)
The Knight Foundation, which seeks to support opportunities that can transform both communities and journalism, and help them reach their highest potential has announced that it is offering $5million of funding through the Knight News Challenge.
Through the challenge, funding is available on an international basis for the development of projects that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighbourhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or innovate how we visualize, experience or interact with information. Previous winners of the challenge have included "Freedom Fone" a project that will provide a voice database where users can access news and public-interest information via land, mobile or Internet phone and Beanstockd a developing idea to encourage green living through an interactive game. Using social networking tools and real-time news and information, players would be able to! track their environmental impact and discover how they stack up against neighbours. To be eligible, projects must; use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base; serve the public interest; and benefit one or more specific geographic communities. The application deadline is the 1 November 2008....
http://www.newschallenge.org/