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

Sat Mar 19 16:46:56 UTC 2011

Dear Daniel,

thanks for your comments,

I wonder if we could also add a criteria expressing the ability to the
participants to work as a group.

My point is that innovation is getting more and more trans-disciplinary. I
think we should grant additional "points" to collective projects, like for
example when they gather a university, a company and a not-for-profit ; or
when they gather 2 small companies and a big company ; etc.

Best,

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

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On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Daniel Dietrich
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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,
> >
> > Jean-Baptiste Soufron
> >
> > blog : http://www.soufron.com
> > think digital : http://thinkdigital.capdigital.com
> >
> > phone: +33 (0) 970 466 928
> > mobile: +33 (0) 648 741 510
> > fax: +33 (0) 950 140 164
> > skype: soufron
> > facebook
> > twitter: soufron
> > gtalk : soufron at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > 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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