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1. A long(itude) history of contests and challenges 1

2. Apps Contests and the passage of the America COMPETES Act A new movement for collaborative innovation in open government starts in 2008 in DC Around the world, apps contests are unlocking government innovation In 2011, the America COMPETES Act allows all agencies to host challenges 8/11/11 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2

3. Key issue for “App Contests 2.0” Build community, not just apps Move from cool to useful Address sustainability issues Identify problems to solve 8/11/11 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 3

4. Key issues for open government data 2010 open data survey showed progress but a long road still ahead Developers say only 30% of data needed is available, 50% of that unusable Issues: data timeliness, accuracy, usable formats, metadata schemas, consistency, and incomplete data sets 8/11/11 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 4

5. Next Steps Post this webinar on EPA’s site www.epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment/webinar.html Continue the conversation on our blog at http://blog.epa.gov/data/ Submit your apps by September 16 4

7. alex@oreilly.com, @digiphile

8. Jeremy Carbaugh, Sunlight Foundation

9. jcarbaugh@sunlightfoundation.com, @jcarbaugh

10. Michaela Hackner, ForumOne

11. mhackner@forumone.com, @KalaBird

12. Ethan McMahon, U.S. EPA

13. mcmahon.ethan@epa.gov

14. Apps for the Environment: epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment