Anywhere in the world, but it must affect a specific geographic community.

The community can be as small as a city block or as big as a state or province.
If your idea is national in scope, it must work on a local level. (For
example, MTV won last year with the idea of putting Knight Mobile Youth
Journalists all over the country, but each one operated within his or
her own state.)

Here’s our thinking behind this:

Online
communities don’t need our help. Virtual communities spring up every
day. But using digital news and information to enhance physical
communities — that’s something we think does need our help.

The
reason we’re focusing on physical communities is that our democracy is
organized by geography. We want to help improve the lives of people
where they live, work and vote.