Datamob: inspiration

Code for America

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:05:53 -0400

Code for America helps city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money. Inspired in part by Teach for America, CFA works with city officials and leading web development talent to identify and then develop web solutions that can then be shared and rolled out more broadly to cities across America.

url: http://codeforamerica.org/

Open311

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:18:48 -0500

Website aimed at facilitating an international effort to build open interoperable systems that allow citizens to more directly interact with their cities. Run by the Open Planning Project.

url: http://open311.org/

Information is Beautiful

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:56:24 -0500

Blog by David McCandless which regularly features original data visualizations and associated source data.

url: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Applications for New South Wales

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:38:48 -0400

Development contest from the government of New South Wales in Australia rewarding developers that use government and public data sources related to NSW to create applications.

url: http://www.information.nsw.gov.au/apps4nsw

MashUp Australia Contest

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:27:35 -0400

Development contest from Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce rewarding developers that use government data sources like those available on data.australia.gov.au to create applications.

url: http://mashupaustralia.org/

NYC Big Apps

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:10:20 -0400

Development contest from the City of New York rewarding developers that use any of the data sources available on NYC Data Mine to create applications. Judges include John Borthwick, Jason Calacanis, Fred Wilson, Esther Dyson and Kevin Ryan.

url: https://www.nycbigapps.com/

Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:53:51 -0400

Development contest from Sunlight Labs rewarding developers that use any of the data sources on Data.gov to create applications. Judges include Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google.

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/

Our Open Government List

Sun, 10 May 2009 10:28:27 -0400

Area to submit and vote on ideas for inclusion in U.S. President Obama's forthcoming Open Government Directive.

url: http://feedback.sunlightfoundation.com/oogl/

Yes We Scan

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:23:44 -0400

Website of the campaign to appoint Carl Malamud Public Printer of the United States, head of the Government Printing Office. Endorsed by Datamob.

url: http://yeswescan.org/

Open Blog

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:45:31 -0500

A blog about open-source technology at The New York Times, written by and for developers.

url: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/

AJAX API Playground

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:36:58 -0500

Sandbox for 8 Google JavaScript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries and Earth). Play with 170 samples and save or export your own work.

url: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground

Apps for America

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:23:57 -0500

Development contest rewarding developers that use data from Sunlight Labs to create applications that make U.S. Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent.

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/contest/

Apps for Democracy

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:00:45 -0500

$20K in prizes for the most useful applications developed from the Washington, D.C. Data Catalog.

url: http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/

Show Us a Better Way

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:41:21 -0400

UK government-sponsored competition for ideas on how to put public data to good use.

url: http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk

Sunlight Foundation

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:27:50 -0400

Nonprofit organization that supports, develops and deploys new internet technologies to make information about the activities of the U.S. federal government more accessible to Americans.

url: http://www.sunlightfoundation.com

Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:40:18 -0400

Podcast series that frequently explores issues surrounding online access to government data.

url: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/innovators.html