# 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