[open-government] [euopendata] Apps for Germany

james burke lifesized at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 09:16:10 UTC 2011


Hey Daniel,

great job on good news!

/J

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I am delighted to announce the launch of “Apps für Deutschland” – the first
> open data competition in Germany. Apps für Deutschland (Apps4De) will
> officially be launched on November, 8th at the exhibition “Modern State“.
> The winners of the competition will be inaugurated in March 2012 at CeBIT.
>
> Apps für Deutschland will be organised by 3 non-for profit organisations:
> The German Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Data Network
> and the Government2.0 Network. It will be organised under the auspices of
> the Ministry of the Interior and supported by BITKOM and its members from
> the private sector.
>
> In this regard Apps4De is a perfect example of “Government as a platform” –
> a joint effort, a collaboration between Government, Civil Society and the
> Private Sector. Unlike most “App4…” Competitions, Apps4De will not start
> with a fully developed open data catalogue, but with a small selection of
> open government data; “opening up Public Sector Information” (PSI) is one of
> the goals of the competition itself. The idea is to encourage public
> authorities to take part in the competition by opening up interesting
> datasets, that have not been open[1] before.
>
> We have already received positive feedback from some agencies and want to
> make this event both a amazing apps competition to demonstrate how useful
> applications built on open government data can be, and a major booster for
> opening up PSI in Germany.
>
> A first handout can be downloaded here (PDF in German language) [2].
>
> More information will be released soon at: www.apps4deutschland.de – watch
> out for #apps4de
>
>
> All the best
> Daniel
>
>
>
> 1. http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/
> 2.
> http://blog.okfn.org/files/2011/07/Infoblatt-Open-Data-Apps-Wettbewerb.pdf
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