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

Sat Mar 19 09:43:26 UTC 2011

Dear Jean, All,

This is a valid point. Also because commercial orientated startups might be able to invest much more time (money) in the development in an app than the single citizen open data-enthusiast. 

I think the Guideline form the very first and very successful "Apps for Democracy" in 2008 in Washingthon DC is really a good starting point (not only for the criteria):

They introduced a number of relatively small prices for the category "Indie" and  "Agency". In both categories the had:

Gold
Silver
Bronze
Honorable Mention
Peoples Choice*

Prize Structure
1.	Indie and Agency prize pools are mutually exclusive (1 gold for Indie, 1 gold for Agency) 
2.	People’s Choice awards are not mutually exclusive and will be award automatically to the two applications with the most votes in the Application Directory. You do not need to judge these.

Awards criteria
Please keep the following 4 criteria in mind when evaluating applications.
1.	Usefulness to the citizens, visitors and government of Washington DC 
2.	Potential for application to be useful for other governmental bodies outside of DC 
3.	Appeal of the application from a usability perspective 
4.	Inventive and original nature of the application

This has proofed to be a meaningful criteria. We might do something very similar to not invent the weel again ;)

See: http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/create_an_apps_for_democracy.pdf

Regards
Daniel

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On 18.03.2011, at 19:48, Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:

> Dear Lorenzo,
> 
> I am also in favor of your two criterias. 
> 
> I would like to add that I would think very important to judge also the economical potential of these apps, as a business-minded criteria. It's one thing to make a competition for e-citizen open-data applications, but we can go way further by fostering the development of real commercially-oriented startups around open data. Maybe that should even be a separate category. 
> 
> Best regards, 
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> Jean-Baptiste Soufron
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> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Lorenzo Benussi <lorenzo.benussi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, it is a please for me to be the Italian representative also because I am working on open data application in Italy.
> 
> For the competition I would suggest to take into special account a) how much value the apps are able to add to the data and b) if and how they are capable to scale or, to put it in a different way, to grow BIG in terms of data processed e users.
> The first point is a kind of obvious even if i think that a good visualization shouldn't be enough.
> The second point has a special meaning for a pan-european competition because it implies that the project has a broad scope, it faces technical issues, probably it uses several datasets that come from many different countries and need to be interoperable.
> I am glad to contribute and discuss further the theme.
> 
> Best,
> Lorenzo
> 
> Il giorno 15/mar/2011, alle ore 17.50, Federico Morando ha scritto:
> 
>> On 03/15/2011 04:28 PM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>>> Out of my head I would suggest for the OD community:
>>> - Rufus Pollock (OKF)
>>> - Ton Zijlstra (ePSIplatform)
>>> - Thomas Roessler (W3C)
>>> - ... Would also be good to have some women here and also a good distribution along EU member states!
>> I did not talk with them beforehand, but Lorenzo Benussi (who is already involved in the process of organizing the contest) could be a good representative for NEXA and maybe Katleen Janssen could represent LAPSI (and bring a legal perspective, in case of doubts about licenses, etc.). If they are not available and this can help, I can happily substitute either of them with my NEXA or LAPSI hat! ;-)
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Federico
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