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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