[open-government] Winners of Ireland's Apps4Fingal Open Data Competition announced

[Open Data]

Hi all,

Yesterday evening, 22nd March 2012, Fingal Open Data held the Awards Ceremony for our Apps4Fingal Open Data competition.

The winning entry was a Tourism App called Discover Fingal which won a total of €5,000 prize money.

Other winners of the combined prize fund of €11,500 include -

* Fingal Traffic View, a traffic app combining live traffic cameras, traffic tweets, parking info and speed trap locations which won the Community Category and a prize of €2,500.
* mypp.ie, an app that shows detailed planning applications on an interactive map which won the Enterprise category and and a prize of €2,500.
* Fingal Day Tripper, an app that plans a day out for visitors to Fingal which won the Student category and a prize of €500.
* Fingal Deals, an idea to create an app that listed all deals available from local businesses in any part of the County won the Ideas award and a prize of €500.

Congratulations to all entrants to the competition.  The standards of the entries was excellent and there were many great Apps that didn't make the final shortlist.

The webcast of the Ceremony can be viewed at http://www.fingalcoco.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/76704

More details are available on our website at http://data.fingal.ie/apps4fingal

Regards,

Dominic.

Dominic Byrne,
Assistant Head of Information Technology,
Information Technology Department,
Fingal County Council,
County Hall, Main Street,
Swords, Fingal,
Co. Dublin,
Ireland.

Web: http://data.fingal.ie
Twitter: @fingalopendata

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