[open-government] What Does $3.2M Buy in Open Government?

Wed Jul 17 14:37:14 UTC 2013

The FAQ was quite clear that applauding would have no effect on the judges' decisions: https://www.newschallenge.org/faq

The News Challenge is open to all; since it is based in the US, there were far more US projects proposed, so it's no surprise that, in some years, no non-US projects win. Also, since it's US-based, people running projects in the US have more opportunities to meet with people from Knight to get feedback on their idea and to clarify what Knight is looking for in a project. A lot of this information was also made available through the Knight blog, and was promoted on their Twitter account (and likely elsewhere). I felt like I had a very good understanding of the criteria and rules - you just have to dedicate the time to read their content.

James

On 2013-07-17, at 9:45 AM, Josh Tauberer wrote:

>> that's a shame for a so-called "OpenGov" challenge :(
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> That's not fair at all. This is open *government*, not open everything. Unlike our governments, we don't pay taxes to the Knight Foundation.
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> Their applauding thing seemed to be a gimmick, and they should be clear about how it is (not) used. But there were a LOT of proposals not accepted (including mine), so I think it's a bit of a stretch to assume international submissions were singled out.
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> - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData)
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> On 07/17/2013 09:00 AM, Armel LE COZ wrote:
>> I totally agree with Samuel and Stef: Close process, not opened to non-US projects (and it was not said) + no transparency about the rules of the challenge and the selection criteria ...that's a shame for a so-called "OpenGov" challenge :(
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>> We spent time and energy to grow the "applauding" of our project Parliament & Citizens ...for nothing because we're not from US?
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>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Samuel Goëta <samgoeta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ce concours m'a agacé, n'hésitez pas à réagir
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>> From: Samuel Goëta <samgoeta at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [open-government] What Does $3.2M Buy in Open Government?
>> To: stef <s at ctrlc.hu>
>> Cc: Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org>, Open Government WG List <open-government at lists.okfn.org>
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>> Completely agree on that, I saw some great projects from all other the world and none of them are in the winners list. Also it's quite obscure the way these 3.2M$ were attributed, especially for an open government grant…
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>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
>> i find it sad, that only US based initiatives won. this could have been
>> communicated upfront, so that all the 2nd class people of the world do not
>> bother applying. :/
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