Nov

7

2008

Not only should you give away your data: you should give away prizes to people who use it best

Washington, DC is doing it.  And since Tuesday’s election, anything DC does has got to be cool  – and this is. The city has released a bunch of its data and created a contest to challenge developers to use it to mashup useful apps. It’s called Apps for Democracy and the press release blurb say it all,

“The District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), in collaboration with iStrategyLabs, today announced the launch of the Apps for Democracy – “An Innovation Contest” for visualizing DC’s public data. The intention of this competition is to reward technology developers with cash prizes and public recognition for creating applications that are useful for the DC government and the citizens, visitors and businesses of Washington, DC.”

And the first app that was developed again shows the growing power of mobile: a location aware iPhone app giving local crime report info wherever you are in DC (must be that American obsession with crime?).

How are you collaborating with your clients and serving their desire for mobility? 

Thanks to Mike Kujawski for the heads up on this one.

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3 Responses to “Not only should you give away your data: you should give away prizes to people who use it best”

  1. Peter Corbett Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Thank you for the kind words!

    DC is a very exciting place right now and for sure big change is coming :)

    Peter

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