Ivonne Jansen presented on apps challenges and their impact. Some key points: - Apps challenges can produce many apps but require significant effort and cost to run. It is debated whether the value created is worth the cost. - Challenges aim to create both economic and social value, engaging citizens, developers, and governments. However, both challenges and open data come with risks around privacy, data quality, and infrastructure that must be addressed. - When done well, challenges can spur innovation, new combinations of data, and increased engagement and involvement of citizens with their government.

1. Apps Challenges
Ivonne Jansen, ivonne@waag.org
Waag Society

3. • Ivonne Jansen Dings
Project manager, Waag Society
• Apps for Amsterdam, Apps for Noord-Holland, Apps
voor Nederland, Open Cities, Commons4EU
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/ivonnejansendings

4. How many apps does a
challenge produce

5. How much effort does a
challenge cost

6. Is it worth it?

11. Creating Economic Value
$ 2.300.000,-

12. Creating Social Value

13. Citizen Connect
City: Boston
www.cityofboston.gov/doit/apps/
citizensconnect.asp
Citizens Connect is the City of Boston's
award-winning effort to empower Boston
residents to be the City's "eyes and ears"
throughout our neighborhoods. Through this
program, you can now use your mobile phone
in five different ways to alert the City of
Boston to neighborhood issues such as
potholes and graffiti.

14. Illegal Dump Site
Available in Slovenia
www.register.ocistimo.si
Application recording of illegal dump site
locations, managing the logistics for their
field data collection and cleanup. By exposing
the locations of illegal dump sites, people can
force responsible institutions to clean the
data Government - it can use these data to
manage the process of illegal dump sites
cleanups, to educate the public and to
penalize the violations of the law.

15. E11
Available in Germany
www.e11map.de
Different sources of energy throughout
Germany are shown in the E11 map. With the
discussion on nuclear energy being an
ongoing issue, this map shows citizens where
their power comes from and gives them the
knowledge to make an informed decision.

16. Make as much raw data as
possible available

17. Set as few rules
as possible

18. Clear and simple rules for
registration, submission and judging

19. Give lots and lots
of prizes

20. Don’t let the contest
run to long

21. Apps Contests

23. What did we learn

24. Define Measure of Succes

25. Involve Acedemia

26. Business Models

27. High Quality Data

28. Quality of Apps
=
Quality of Data

29. WorldBank
Apps for Development

30. Nationale Databank
Wegverkeersgegevens

31. Developers

32. < 18 jaar

33. Students
Developers

34. Agencies

35. Start-ups

36. Why participate?
The contest puts me and my work in the spotlight
Talking to policymakers gives inspiration to make Apps
A need for services in my own life
Expanding professional network by participation in events
I got the idea during a ‘hackathon’ coding event
Getting experience with open datasets
Creative outlet (hobby)
Opportunity to expand existing app with new data
Closing the gap between myself and my government
Being a part of the global “Apps” movement
Curiosity about the datasets

37. Government

38. Dealing with change

39. We won’t be specialist
anymore

40. Our specialism will become
more visible

41. Our every move will be
watched

42. Government will be more
transpartent

43. What if there are mistakes in
the data

44. Citizens and developers can
help make data complete

45. There’s too much risk for
violation of privacy

46. Aggregated data is safe to
use

47. The cost is too high

48. We will be more efficient
and effective

49. People will draw wrong
conclusions

50. Exciting new combinations
will occur

51. We cannot guarantee quality
this way

52. Best practices will rize to
the surface

53. Our infrastructure becomes
more fragile

54. Engagement and involvement
of citizens will increase

55. MapyHazardu
Available in Czech Republic
www.mapyhazardu.cz
MapyHazardu is a crowdsourcing platform
showing open data on the location of public
buildings and asking citizens to map the
location of gambling slot machines. Within
the Czech Republic these slot machines are
not allowed within 100 meters from public
buildings. The application uses the helpful
information of citizens to help law officials to
enforce the law.

56. Citizens
Government
Developers

57. Open Cities Challenge
• Pan European Open Data Challenge
• http://opencities.net
• Datasets from 7 European cities
• 30th of June submission deadline

58. Thank You
ivonne@waag.org