[open-government] How to make apps contests more sustainable?

[Antti Jogi Poikola]

Hello,

By now we’ve seen many apps contests, in many forms, all around world. In a
way, this continuous sprawl is a success in itself. On the other hand,
critique [1] related to the lack of sustainability of the apps contests is
growing. There is a demand and a need to learn from each other and design
better and more sustainable models for boosting the innovation around open
data.

If you are interested in making better apps contests or have other new
ideas on how to boost the innovation around open data – feel free to join
the discussion at the appsforx -email list [2]. The list was established
after a international Apps Contest Organizers meetup which was organized
during the Open Knowledge Festival 2012 in Helsinki (see also the meeting
memo [3]).

Right now I am compiling a topic report with working title: “Innovation
Contests for Open Data Re-use”. I would appreciate all help in populating
the listing of Apps contests [4], you can add missing details directly to
the Google spreadsheet or share this email and the blogpost link [5] to
relevant forums and people who might know about other apps contests.

Best regards,
Antti Poikola (Apps for Finland coordinator 2009)

[1]
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/app-contests-sustainability-usability.html
[2] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/appsforx
[3] http://okfestival.okfnpad.org/apps
[4] http://bit.ly/apps_contests_list
[5] http://poikola.fi/apps-contests-everywhere/

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