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NYC Wants Citizen-Created Apps in Challenge

Chris — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:31:12 +0000

New York City is having its second app challenge, known as BigApps. According to the BigApps website:

The NYC.gov Data Mine can be found at http://nyc.gov/data. You are required to use at least one data set from the Data Mine in your application. NYCEDC and DoITT coordinated with over 40 City agencies and commissions to provide the datasets, with 15 new city agencies, including the Department of Environmental Protection, School Construction Authority and Campaign Finance Board, participating in DataMine for the first time. CompStat and City budget data, taxi and limousine trip data, complaints to the Department of Buildings, and real-time traffic information.

The best apps in the challenge will win $20,000. Last year’s winners were Big Apple Ed, Taxihack, WayFinder NYC, and NYC Way.

Design for America Contest for Data Accessibility

Chris — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:28:12 +0000

Sunlight Labs is opening up a contest called Design for America that encourages the public to create data visualizations with open government data. See news of the contest at Wired and govfresh.

Public Data and Google’s Explorer

Chris — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:58:39 +0000

Governing has a short piece on using Google’s great new Public Data Explorer.

NYC’s App Contest

Chris — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:22:20 +0000

Here is the list of apps submitted in New York City’s BigApps contest.

Gov 2.0 Predictions for Next 3 Years

Chris — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:51:41 +0000

Five predictions for government 2.0 in the next three years, including innovation coming from local governments, rise of Citizen 2.0, more video, and always on the record.

Gov 2.0 Predictions for 2010

Chris — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:12:31 +0000

Social Computing Journal has 7 government 2.0 predictions for 2010, which include: self-service integration (and mashups), increased transparency and citizen involvement (due to apps), and incorporating more social media.

NYTimes on Local Government Data

Chris — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:01:09 +0000

The New York Times has a great article today on local governments that are opening up their data to be used in mashups, apps, and mobile apps (think iPhone apps).