Short explination of the Apps4Finland 2010 contest.

1. Contest, awards etc. in 6 slides
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2. Contest:
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Contest of best uses of public data
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Develope a idea or functional web application

Use at least one open data source which is
provided by a public sector organization
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3. Awards:
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Three categories: Idea, Indie and Agencies
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4. Schedule:
• 14.4.2010 Launch of the contest
• 31.8.2010 Final submission deadline
• 30.9.2010 People's Choice voting period ends
• 7.10.2010 Awards ceremony in MindTrek
Conference, Tampere
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5. Data sources:
• Official Finnish data catalog:
www.data.suomi.fi
• Developers' catalog: www.opengov.fi
(not yet open)
• You may use any publicly available data
source, but have to enter the details in
opengov.fi , so that the others may use the
same data source.
• You may participate in one of the hackhathon
-events before the contest to get familiar with
the data
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6. Next steps:
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Join to the mailing list or pre-register as
contestant:
Join to the
Pre-register
mailing list
Receive information about the Receive detailed information
contest (max once a week) and account to the submission
system. This doesn't mean yet
that you have to participate
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