Prize in Public Interest Computing

Posted by on November 15, 2010

Tides Foundation Invites Nominations for Prize in Public Interest Computing
Deadline: December 15, 2010

The Tides Foundation has opened the nomination period for the fifth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, the United States’ top honor for software developers working with nonprofits to help forge innovative social change. In 2011, the Pizzigati Prize will award $10,000 to an individual who has created or led an effort to create a software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

The prize program seeks to honor an individual who has developed an elegant software product that serves a critical need in the broader U.S.-based nonprofit community; evolved a plan to scale the product through wide distribution of the code; exemplified the values of public interest computing; and demonstrated vision and inspired innovation in the field of public interest computing.

The competition welcomes applications from — and nominations of — individuals who have developed an open source software product that has demonstrated impressive value to the nonprofit sector.

Nominees should have developed a software product that is open source, as defined by the Open Source Initiative , and is easily and widely available. The software must have already demonstrated its value to at least one nonprofit organization and have the potential to beof value to multiple nonprofit organizations.

The 2011 prize winner will be announced in March at the Nonprofit Technology Network annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Complete program information and application guidelines, including details on the work of previous prize recipients, are available at the Pizzigati Prize Web site.