[open-government] List of open government competitions

Mon Oct 11 14:46:17 UTC 2010

Big +1. Would be great to have something ready to go before the
November Camp in London!

Strongly feel we should wait for the best technical platform before we
start collating material. Can always start by creating/embedding GDocs
pages. ;-)

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
>> I am compiling a list of competitions that support reuse of open government data[1]. Contributions are welcome.
>
> different people and initiatives started working on mapping OGD initiatives, catalogues, competitions, events.
>
> I think its pretty clear that there is a need for something like this. Lets try to join forces instead of to re-invent the wheel.
> So the question is: how can we cooperate and collaboratively updating a comprehensive list of:
>
>        • OGD initiatives (Worldwide)
>        • OGD Events (Worldwide > Calendar / Map)
>        • OGD competitions (Worldwide)
>        • OGD catalogues (Worldwide)
>
> Also we thought it would be cool to start thinking about start collecting other useful information around OGD like
>
>        • OGD use cases & success stories
>        • OGD most popular data
>        • OGD low hanging fruits (where to start? what data is easy to open)
>        • OGD best practice
>
>
>
> I think that opengovernmentdata.org would be a good place for this kind of mapping
>
> the idea is to collaboratively collect the above mentioned information about ODG and to display in different formats (as single entries in a CMS, as a list, on a map, in a calendar, as rfd)
>
> requirements: open system that allows users to contribute and maintain their entries. we would propose to use drupal (out of the box, good user rights management, easy integration of map, cal
>
> I would love to start working on this at opengovernmentdata.org very soon.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tim
>> @timClicks
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.open.org.nz/Data/Open_data_competition_statistics
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