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[...] 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. [...]

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.

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.

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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