[euopendata] Fwd: Open data competitions - archive + documentation?

[Lorenzo Benussi]

hi all, we are organizing a competition in Italy with others open data enthusiast, Apps4Italy a national competition for apps, ideas, visualization based on open data. Our aim is rising attention on the phenomenon, gathering examples and stimulating public bodies to free their data (at least some of them as ). 
It is also a challenge to the present situation in Italy where even if we really need transparency and competition, the central government is incredibly slow in adopting the model. I will update you as  soon as the web site is online also because apps4italy will be open to all EU citizens, so it may be of interest to some readers of this list.
I am sure competitions are the best way to help people and companies to develop new apps and it is the most effective method to show that open data is about services for the people, is concrete and can actually change our life.
I'm happy to take part in the process of sharing and learning practices and eventually tools for open data competitions. I think that something like "open data competition in a box" is a very good idea since the organization in not trivial at all. 

best, lorenzo


Il giorno 14/giu/2011, alle ore 10.12, Jonathan Gray ha scritto:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would be happy to input my experience from the two events Appening
>> and Hack4Europe that I participated in. I second the idea about a
>> competition support platform. It would lower the barrier for managing
>> a competition and from my experience these have proven to be extremely
>> valuable for helping agency managers understand the power of open
>> data.
> 
> Excellent - very much agree.
> 
>> Or are you only looking at gathering data from the outcome of a
>> competition/hackday?
> 
> 
> I think in the first instance we want to gather:
> 
>  1. Information on open data competitions (what happened when, etc) -
> possibly in CKAN, as per Friedrich's recent email.
>  2. Documentation on what people did to set up competitions and
> instructions for how to run a competition - for OpenDataManual.org
> 
> Later we could build on 2. to create something like "open data
> competition in a box" - e.g. with template  websites and detailed
> instructions - if this was deemed to be useful. ;-)
> 
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> 
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