[open-government] Apps4Russia competition announced

[Ton Zijlstra]

excellent, Ivan!

will post this to epsiplatform.eu today as well.


best
Ton

On Friday, June 24, 2011, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi!Here in Russia we launch Apps4Russia competition. It's non-government, non-business, non-profit initiative lauched by four people and we invest our personal funds into it.
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> Apps4Russia (www.apps4russia.ru <http://www.apps4russia.ru/>) is a competition for the creation of projects on the basis of open data and data gathered from citizens, named ‘crowdsourcing’; created for public use,  solving of various problems, guaranteeing a greater transparency of the state and encouraging collective  solutions of problems.
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> We do not limit our participants as to the choice of topic for their projects, however we will first and foremost consider the projects within the following topic areas:
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> Urban infrastructure/environment
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> HOA/tariffs/prices
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> State financesState services
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> Ecology
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> Transformation and/or visualisation of historical dataJury and organization group of the project:- Ivan Begtin, Founder of OpenGovData.ru, Rosspending.ru and lot's of other open government projects
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> - Simon Kordonsky, professor of National Research High School of Economy
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> - Ekaterina Aksenova, active businessman and open government blogger gov-gov.ru- Dmitry Izkovich, chair of the editorial board of Polit.ru news agency
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> More info here - http://www.apps4russia.ru/english/
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> Best Regards,
>    Ivan Begtin
> email: ibegtin at gmail.comphone: +7 910 426 68 83
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