slides on app contests & challenges for epa webinar
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A long(itude) history of contests and challenges
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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
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Key issue for “App Contests 2.0”
• Build community, not just apps
• Move from cool to useful
• Address sustainability issues
• Identify problems to solve04/10/2023 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 3
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
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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
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For more information
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• Alex Howard, O’Reilly Media
• [email protected], @digiphile
• Jeremy Carbaugh, Sunlight Foundation
• [email protected], @jcarbaugh
• Michaela Hackner, ForumOne
• [email protected], @KalaBird
• Ethan McMahon, U.S. EPA
• Apps for the Environment: epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment