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
 * Idea, an Indonesian architecture magazine

Other meanings

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