Gov 2.0 Expo and the Apps for America 2 Challenge Winners
Submitted by PGarvin on Wed, 2009-09-09 08:54.
The Sunlight Foundation announced the winners of their "Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge" at the O'Reilly/techweb Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in DC yesterday. The web applications were to be built with data available from the U.S. Data.gov site. And the prizes go to...
First prize: DataMasher.org. Combine and compare government data at the state level.
Second prize: GovPulse. Making Federal Register access easier.
Third prize: ThisWeKnow.org. Find government info by zip code.
Prize for best data visualization: QuakeSpotter.org. Global view of earthquakes with links to quake-related tweets.
Get complete information from Sunlight's press release.
The one-day Gov 2.0 Expo is over, and the two-day Gov 2.0 Summit (with bold face names) is in progress. They are tweeting up a storm over at the Hyatt, using the hashtag #gov2s.
[Update: They are using the #g2s tag, too.]
I will blog more later on how the Gov 2.0 Expo went.
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After attending the Gov 2.0 Expo in DC, I can say now that the length of time that it takes Gov 2.0 to really go mainstream really just has everything to do with how fast normalized, accessible data can become available to the public sector so that the private sector can write neat apps that take advantage of this data.
http://www.webworldtech.com/blog/gov-2.0-expo-video-reflections
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