Apps for Democracy

Apps of All Kinds. What are you working on?

2008 October 23rd
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We’ve been talking with a lot of developers who are working on applications for the Apps for Democracy contest and it’s truly amazing the breadth of creative ideas that have been dreamed up in only a 9 day period since we launched the contest. As far as we can tell, there are 15 apps that are being worked on at the moment and our gut tells us there’s another 10 out there we don’t know about yet. Keep in mind that there are 60 prizes…..so……chances are pretty good right now that folks will come away with a prize.

As some of you have seen the first app went live very quickly (within 2 days) and it’s a location aware iphone app that shows neighborhood specific crime alerts as well as metro times. You can see PoinAbout’s sumbission here. It already has 61 votes that will count towards one of the two people’s choice awards.

Boalt interactive sent us a teaser for their app and the screen shot and link is below:

We also heard that there will be some form of voice activated app. That’s an approach we didn’t even think about when we launch the contest! Sweet!

If you have an application you’re developing that we don’t know about, please either comment on this post, tweet something with #apps08 or register here.

Thank you to everyone for the kind words around the contest. Link love goes out to:

[Boalt][TechPresident][Vox Populi][MacsismumNews]

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“Apps of All Kinds. What are you working on?”
Chris Williams
October 24th, 2008

AJ Turner and I are working on an app called Public Square that is written in Erlang and will pull the RSS feeds for Crime Activity and allow neighborhood members to discuss and comment on the activity. It will also provide (if we have time) the feeds back out as XMPP values for future apps to build on. The thought is to create a forum for discussion where the “postings” are occurrences with the neighborhood.

We would like to integrate a “broken window” concept into the site where people can contribute funds to fix things in their neighborhood. This would prevent the spread of crime and hopefully localize funds to fix items that the community cares about.


Chris Williams
October 24th, 2008

Code base is being developed (not ready though at the moment) at https://github.com/voodootikigod/public_square/tree


Johnny Storm
November 5th, 2008

I looked at the data, and I don’t know what kind of application to make. I’m absolutely stuck for ideas.


Adam Boalt
November 7th, 2008

Johnny Storm, take the liquor license info from the feed and create a booze cruise tour on a map. Good luck!

Adam Boalt

My app is located at: http://www.dchistorictours.com
(look for it next week)


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