At the Future of News and Civic Media conference, Knight Foundation’s Journalism Program Director Gary Kebbel announced that Knight would award $3,000 to the best proposal for collaboration between attendees that would improve current Knight News Challenge projects or result in a completely new idea. The second-place idea would win $2,000, and the third, $1,000.     The winners were’chosen using Selectricity, a voting process created by Benjamin Mako Hill. Mako had each conference attendee rank the 20 proposals for collaborative projects submitted by attendees, mostly KNC winners, and Selectricity chose the winners based on the largest consensus.

The proposals from the cooperation competition’will be available here for two weeks.