iStrategyLabs presents ‘Apps for Democracy’ contest
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 20, 2008 at 9:00pm
The District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), in collaboration with iStrategyLabs, today announced the launch of the Apps for Democracy, a challenge for visualizing DC’s public data. The intention of this competition is to reward technology developers with cash prizes and public recognition for creating applications that are useful for the DC government and the citizens, visitors and businesses of Washington, DC.
The contest will serve as a catalyst to visualize OCTO’s data so it will be useful to the citizens of DC, improving their quality of life; foster innovation in the DC technology community resulting in startup formation and growth; solve the technology challenges of OCTO through more cost effective open collaboration; and work towards a new model for government/private sector/citizen cross collaboration that can be utilized repeatedly to solve OCTO’s challenges and serve as an example for other municipalities.
Apps for Democracy will feature 60 cash prizes from US$2,000 to $100 dollars for a total of $20,000 in prizes. Developers and designers will compete by creating web applications, widgets, Google Maps-mashups (and other maps mash-ups), iPhone apps, Facebook apps, and other digital utilities that visualize OCTO’s Data Catalog, which provides real-time data from multiple agencies to citizens.
The contest is open to everyone. Submission guidelines, meet-up notifications and awards structure can be found at appsfordemocracy.org. Submission must be released as open source code. The contest ends at 11:59 pm on Nov. 12.
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