Apps for Democracy

Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy

2010 January 22nd
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The following guide has been provided in order to help governments and organizations around the world understand the ins and outs of how we’ve run Apps for Democracy contests over the past year+ and is structured in such a way that you’ll be able to start your own when the time comes.

If you need help, feel free to ask a question in the Apps for Democracy Google Group, or leave a comment on this post.

Good luck with your open data, open government, and civic hacking projects and keep me posted if you launch something so we can help spread the word about it!

-Peter Corbett (peter at istrategylabs dot com)

The guide is embedded below and you can download a pdf here:

Create an Apps for Democracy - Open Government Data Meets Citizen Innovation

This guide was shared in presentation format at CityCamp. That presentation can be found here and includes more graphics and examples:

Create an Apps for Democracy - #Citycamp Presentation

I’ve recorded a video of this presentation as I spoke through it at CityCamp:

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January 22nd, 2010

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January 23rd, 2010

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links for 2010-01-23 « riverrun meaghn beta
January 23rd, 2010

[...] Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy | Apps for Democracy The following guide has been provided in order to help governments and organizations around the world understand the ins and outs of how we’ve run Apps for Democracy contests over the past year+ and is structured in such a way that you’ll be able to start your own when the time comes. [...]


Adrin Walker
January 24th, 2010

Here’s another way of creating an app. You can type rules in Executable English into a browser. Then you can ask English questions, get answers, and get English explanations.

Here’s an example:
http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/EnergyIndependence1.agent

Shared use of the web site is free, and there are no advertisements.

Imagine government and other web sites being able to answer an open ended collection of English questions, and also explaining the answers in English. Imagine government folks and citizens socially networking, Wikipedia-style, to continually expand the range of questions that can be answered.


Lynne Robinson
January 26th, 2010

The guide mentions that most developer feedback during competitions has been for more data in varied formats. There’s no mention, though, of which formats and standards have proven most popular. Is that info available? I’m particularly interested in the role of spatial information in these sorts of competitions, given the relative complexity it brings.


Antti Poikola
January 28th, 2010

Thanks for the guide, I will read it while starting the Apps for Democracy Finland 2010 organization http://apoikola.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/apps_for_democracy_finland/


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January 29th, 2010

[...] way of course is to continue with the AppsForDemocracy contests. As I highlighted in a recent post, the British government has institutionalized the submission of [...]


From E-Democracy’s “CityCamp,” Chicago, Jan 22-24 « Seeding Civic Media
January 29th, 2010

[...] his 20 second Gov 2.0 video – was full of invaluable ideas – here’s his 20 page booklet – for anyone who wants to engage IT people (or anyone) in creative ways. The second session, [...]


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June 10th, 2010

[...] de pédagogie (et de retour d’expérience), IstrategyLab a récemment publié un guide intitulé Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy visant à aider ceux qui veulent réaliser leur propre concours. Au-delà de son aspect pratique, [...]




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