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About The Global Development Commons

The Global Development Commons promotes innovations for international development through knowledge sharing, partnerships, and collaborative problem-solving. Identifying and fostering innovations through open approaches can improve our ability to deliver on our core mission at the US Agency for International Development. The Global Development Commons seeks to enable citizens of the world to innovate and co-create solutions because no single actor can solve today's global challenges.

What Does the Commons Do?

• Shares information— news, prices, investments, forecasts, resources, training, data— that can improve lives
• Builds communities around tools that help disseminate and interpret information
• Taps innovation through competitive challenges designed to bring the best new technology into development work
• Identifies technology solutions through pilots that improve access to market information, health resources, and education services
• Partners with other development actors, including companies, donors, governments, and non-profits, to take successes to scale.

Examples of How USAID is Catalyzing the Commons

• Launching the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge to solicit cutting-edge mobile technology applications to implement in development work
• Creating www.GlobalDevelopmentCommons.net, a site that profiles and promotes successful applications of technology to international development efforts
• Using open source, intuitive 3D mapping systems to match needs with opportunities and inform decision-making around the African trade corridors and disaster response in Bangladesh
• Integrating advanced Google search tools into USAID, increasing access for all people to agency information and projects
• Partnering with the Government of Rwanda to build collaborative, electronic systems for teacher curriculum and to help donors reach underserved communities

USAID seeks partners who bring a dynamic vision for the Commons.
Together, we can find solutions to development challenges.

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