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

Sun Mar 20 17:25:47 UTC 2011

Well, if we are at european-level, I guess we can expect a lot of
participation.

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

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On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have successfully copied the "original DC -model" in prizes in Apps for
> Finland contest (2009 and 2010). It really depends what we are looking for.
> One big prize motivates fewer teams to try harder as many smaller prizes
> motivate many teams and individuals, but they may not try as hard.
>
> -Jogi
>
>
> On 03/19/2011 11:43 AM, Daniel Dietrich 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
>>
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>
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>>
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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
>>>
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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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