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appsfordemocracy.org - 11/13/2008

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App URL: http://www.outsideindc.com/bikes OutsideinDC aims to make DC a more bike friendly city, and in turn a more fun, greener, and healthier place to live. OutsideinDC is built entirely on open source software. The underlying framework is Drupal v6 , one of the best open source ...

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Apps for Democracy Announces Winners
SocialTimes.com — ... This was the first large new media contest by the Office of the CTO and I’d expect more of these to come in the future. If you are looking to still have an influence in the contest, there is the People’s Choice Award which will come from users voting on the Apps for Democracy site. You can head over and vote if you are interested in participating. ...

Apps for Democracy
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... I thought it was kind of fun to just poke around in the list of submissions and see what people came up with. As you can imagine many of them are geo-spatial display's of district stores, but there are some other ideas in there as well. Take a look, see what you think, and get your people's choice vote in. ...

Obama CTO might want to check out D.C.’s CTO
Technology Liberation Front — ... by Maxine Teller. The D.C. CTO’s site offers a Data Catalog that has a virtual cornucopia of government data made available in structured feeds—from juvenile arrests to registered vacant property to the most recent roadkill pickups. Vivek Kundra, the current CTO, encourages the remixing and mashing of all this data. The office recently held an X-Prize-like contest to encourage developers to make innovative apps. Here are the results. I don’t see any budget or spending data feeds on the D.C. site, however, and I hope that’s something they plan to add ...

Where's My Bus? D.C. Gov't Says There's an App for That
ReadWriteWeb — ... So the city launched a contest for developers to use the data to solve some of the city's problems, allotting $50,000 in prize money. The first year's results included 47 mobile, Facebook, and web apps with an estimated value of more than $2.6 million. Smart town. ...