apps challenges - presentation @ re:publica

Ivonne Jansen, ivonne@waag.orgWaag Society

Apps Challenges

• Ivonne Jansen DingsProject manager, Waag Society

• Apps for Amsterdam, Apps for Noord-Holland, Apps voor Nederland, Open Cities, Commons4EU

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/ivonnejansendings

How many apps does a challenge produce

How much effort does a challenge cost

Is it worth it?

Creating Economic Value

$ 2.300.000,-

Creating Social Value

Citizen ConnectCity: Bostonwww.cityofboston.gov/doit/apps/citizensconnect.asp

Citizens Connect is the City of Boston's award-winning effort to empower Boston residents to be the City's "eyes and ears" throughout our neighborhoods. Through this program, you can now use your mobile phone in five different ways to alert the City of Boston to neighborhood issues such as potholes and graffiti.

Illegal Dump SiteAvailable in Sloveniawww.register.ocistimo.si

Application recording of illegal dump site locations, managing the logistics for their field data collection and cleanup. By exposing the locations of illegal dump sites, people can force responsible institutions to clean the data Government - it can use these data to manage the process of illegal dump sites cleanups, to educate the public and to penalize the violations of the law.

E11Available in Germanywww.e11map.de

Different sources of energy throughout Germany are shown in the E11 map. With the discussion on nuclear energy being an ongoing issue, this map shows citizens where their power comes from and gives them the knowledge to make an informed decision.

Make as much raw data as possible available

Set as few rules as possible

Clear and simple rules forregistration, submission and judging

Give lots and lotsof prizes

Don’t let the contestrun to long

Apps Contests

What did we learn

Define Measure of Succes

Involve Acedemia

Business Models

High Quality Data

Quality of Apps=

Quality of Data

WorldBankApps for Development

Nationale DatabankWegverkeersgegevens

Developers

< 18 jaar

Developers

Students

Agencies

Start-ups

Why participate?

A need for services in my own lifeExpanding professional network by participation in events

Talking to policymakers gives inspiration to make Apps

I got the idea during a ‘hackathon’ coding event Getting experience with open datasets

Creative outlet (hobby)

Curiosity about the datasets

The contest puts me and my work in the spotlight

Opportunity to expand existing app with new data

Being a part of the global “Apps” movement

Closing the gap between myself and my government

Government

Dealing with change

We won’t be specialist anymore

Our specialism will become more visible

Our every move will be watched

Government will be more transpartent

What if there are mistakes in the data

Citizens and developers can help make data complete

There’s too much risk for violation of privacy

Aggregated data is safe to use

The cost is too high

We will be more efficient and effective

People will draw wrong conclusions

Exciting new combinations will occur

We cannot guarantee quality this way

Best practices will rize to the surface

Our infrastructure becomes more fragile

Engagement and involvement of citizens will increase

MapyHazarduAvailable in Czech Republicwww.mapyhazardu.cz

MapyHazardu is a crowdsourcing platform showing open data on the location of public buildings and asking citizens to map the location of gambling slot machines. Within the Czech Republic these slot machines are not allowed within 100 meters from public buildings. The application uses the helpful information of citizens to help law officials to enforce the law.

Government

Developers

Citizens

Open Cities Challenge

• Pan European Open Data Challenge

• http://opencities.net

• Datasets from 7 European cities

• 30th of June submission deadline

Thank Youivonne@waag.org