Idea (disambiguation)

An idea is an image existing or formed in the mind.

Idea or IDEA or similar may also refer to:

Computing and software

• International Data Encryption Algorithm, a block cipher
• IntelliJ IDEA, a development application for the Java programming language
• IdeaPad, a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers from Lenovo

Government organizations

• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an international intergovernmental organization
• Local Government Improvement and Development, a United Kingdom local government organization previously known as the Improvement and Development Agency (IDEA)

Politics

• Diversity, equity, inclusion and access
• Idea (political party), a political party in Slovakia
• Identity and Action (IDEA), a political party in Italy
• Ieros Desmos Ellinon Axiomatikon (ΙΔΕΑ, Sacred Bond of Greek Officers), a right-wing group of officers in the Greek army in the 1940s–1960s whose members led the Greek military junta of 1967–74
• Megali Idea, an irredentist concept of Greek nationalism
• Szeged Idea, refers to the proto-fascist ideology that developed among anti-communist counter-revolutionaries in Szeged, Hungary in 1919

Law

• IDEA (journal), a law review published by an independent student organization at the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property at the University of New Hampshire School of Law
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a U.S. federal law on the education of primary school students with disabilities
• Wisconsin Idea, the policy developed in the U.S. state of Wisconsin that fosters public universities' contributions to the state

Music

• Idea in music may refer to a concept implemented musically, shortest forms of musical ideas are Motif (music) and Figure (music)
• Idea (album), by the Bee Gees
• Idea (TV special), about the Bee Gees
• Idea Records, a record label
• The Idea (musical), an 1893 Broadway musical

Automotive and industrial design

• Fiat Idea, a compact car
• International Design Excellence Awards, an award program
• I.DE.A Institute, an automobile design and engineering company
• IDEA, a high-mileage plug-in hybrid electric van produced by Bright Automotive

Other organizations

• IDEA League, a loose alliance of five European universities
• Idea (news agency), an evangelical news agency in Germany
• Innovation, Development and Employment Alliance, a business coalition aiming to secure intellectual property rights
• Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement, an organization promoting computer-based learning
• Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center, a Christian nonprofit organization formed as a student club to promote the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
• Idea Cellular, a wireless telephony company in India
• International Deaf Education Association (IDEA), an organization focused on the program of educating the deaf in Bohol, Philippines initiated by the United States Peace Corps
• Idea (supermarkets), a retail chain in Serbia
• IDEA Public Schools, a Texas non-profit organization of tuition-free K-12 charter schools
• International Development Ethics Association, an association formerly led by David Crocker

Other meanings

• Idea (classical element)
• Idea (genus), a genus of butterflies

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Idea
• Ideas (disambiguation)
• IDEAS (disambiguation)
• Eyedea (1981–2010), a rapper and part of the hip-hop duo Eyedea & Abilities
• General Idea, a collective of three Canadian artists active from 1967 to 1994
• Idea Vilariño (1920–2009), a Uruguayan poet, essayist and literary critic
• Idea Zee Cinestars, a popular talent-hunt reality show on Zee TV channel in 2006
• New Idea, an Australian weekly magazine
• "Wrong Idea", a 2001 song by Americans rappers Bad Azz and Snoop Dogg featuring Kokane, and Lil' ½ Dead

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