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

Thu Nov 1 22:20:04 UTC 2012

Antti--

Great ideas and a real issue for us to deal with.  Making the apps that
come out of challenges sustainable and rigorous needs to be baked into the
initial expectations and planning.  I've added some additional ideas and
resources onto your notepad.

--Jeanne

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>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:29:53 +0200
>From: Antti Jogi Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>
>Subject: [open-government] How to make apps contests more sustainable?
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>Hello,
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>By now we?ve seen many apps contests, in many forms, all around world. In
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>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.
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>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]).
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>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.
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>Best regards,
>Antti Poikola (Apps for Finland coordinator 2009)
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>[1]
>http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/app-contests-sustainability-usability.htm
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>[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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