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

Idea or IDEA or similar may also refer to:

Computing and software

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)

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

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

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

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