Ivonne Jansen presented on apps challenges and their impact. Some key points:
- Apps challenges can produce many apps but require significant effort and cost to run. It is debated whether the value created is worth the cost.
- Challenges aim to create both economic and social value, engaging citizens, developers, and governments. However, both challenges and open data come with risks around privacy, data quality, and infrastructure that must be addressed.
- When done well, challenges can spur innovation, new combinations of data, and increased engagement and involvement of citizens with their government.
3. • Ivonne Jansen Dings
Project manager, Waag Society
• Apps for Amsterdam, Apps for Noord-Holland, Apps
voor Nederland, Open Cities, Commons4EU
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/ivonnejansendings
13. Citizen Connect
City: Boston
www.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.
14. Illegal Dump Site
Available in Slovenia
www.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.
15. E11
Available in Germany
www.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.
36. Why participate?
The contest puts me and my work in the spotlight
Talking to policymakers gives inspiration to make Apps
A need for services in my own life
Expanding professional network by participation in events
I got the idea during a ‘hackathon’ coding event
Getting experience with open datasets
Creative outlet (hobby)
Opportunity to expand existing app with new data
Closing the gap between myself and my government
Being a part of the global “Apps” movement
Curiosity about the datasets
55. MapyHazardu
Available in Czech Republic
www.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.
57. Open Cities Challenge
• Pan European Open Data Challenge
• http://opencities.net
• Datasets from 7 European cities
• 30th of June submission deadline