[open-government] Announcing the Open Data Challenge – a pan-European open data competition

Tue Apr 5 16:25:26 UTC 2011

Fantastic. Anyone want to partner to do OpenlyLocal in territories
other than the UK?
Chris
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On 5 April 2011 09:10, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear all
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> For a long while our Working Group on EU Open Data has been very keen to run a pan-European open data competition. Hence we’re very pleased to announced the opening of the Open Data Challenge, which is precisely such a competition.
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> The competition is open for the next 60 days and there are €20,000 in prizes up for grabs! As seems fitting for a pan-European initiative, the winners will be announced by EC Vice President Neelie Kroes in Brussels this coming June.
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> You can find out all the details at:
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>        http://opendatachallenge.org/
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> You can find the Press release on the OKFN Blog:
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/04/05/announcing-the-open-data-challenge-a-pan-european-open-data-competition/
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> Please help spread the word and re-tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/okfn/status/55300488895270912
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> This is *really* a great day for OPen Data in Europe!
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> All the best
> Daniel
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