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

[Daniel Dietrich]

Dear all

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.

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.

You can find out all the details at: 

	http://opendatachallenge.org/

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/

Please help spread the word and re-tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/okfn/status/55300488895270912

This is *really* a great day for OPen Data in Europe!

All the best
Daniel




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Daniel Dietrich

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