[euopendata] [psi-workers] Update on pan-European open data competition

Tue Mar 15 11:46:32 UTC 2011

I think the idea of a prize for "best dataset opened during the call" is
great to involve PSI holders.

Regarding media partners... I can try in Spain, but in my experience
there is not much awareness regarding opendata. In any case, I can try

El 15/03/11 12:28, Federico Morando escribió:
> Dear Jonathan,
>
> thanks for your excellent roadmap. A few feedbacks below:
>
> On 03/14/2011 11:53 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>    * local contacts - to help with translating the competition website,
>> liaising with local entrants, and evangelising about the competition
>> in relevant local communities
> Of course, we (NEXA/LAPSI) can do this for Italy and we can check if
> some LAPSI members can help in other countries: let us know on which
> countries/languages we should try to focus our efforts, on the basis
> of the availability of other participants (e.g. German and Italian
> seems to be already covered).
>
> Claudio (in Cc) and I will take care of the Italian version.
>>    * local, regional and national public bodies - to contribute data
>> and to show support for the competition from governments around Europe
> Excellent: as you know, Lorenzo if following this issue for NEXA/LAPSI
> at the level of the Piedmont Region in Northern Italy.
>>    * media partners - to help show support for the competition, and to
>> promote it in the country where they are based
> Lorenzo, Juan Carlos and I can try to contact some people in Italy.
> I'm confidend that we can find one or two good media partners!
>> The competition will have three main strands:
>>
>>    * Ideas – Anyone can suggest an idea for projects which reuse public
>> information to do something interesting or useful. Applications are
>> submitted in the form of a microshort video and short supporting text.
>>    * Applications – Teams of developers can submit working applications
>> which reuse public information. Applications must be made available
>> under an open source license, and teams must include representation
>> from at least two European member states.
>>    * Visualisations – Designers, artists and others can submit
>> interesting or insightful visual representations of public
>> information.
> Maybe, we can add a prize for the best dataset opened during the call,
> of course, it should be an open and "interoperable" dataset, in the
> sense that the possibility of mixing it with other data at the
> European level would matter for the prize... there was a suggestion in
> this sence on the list and I think it was a good idea to directly
> involve PSI holders.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Federico
>
>
>
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