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Victoria launches App My State competition with $100,000 in prizes
Victorian Government Premier John Brumby has launched the world's biggest apps competition App My State and encouraged entries from everyone in Victoria.
Mr Brumby said the App My State competition would encourage Victorians to create new and innovative ways to use government information and provide services to help other Victorians.
"The contest is open to all Victorian residents and offers a share in the $100,000 in prizes for individuals or teams to build the best new applications for Victorians," Mr Brumby said.
"Today we are also releasing over 90 Victorian Government datasets to encourage new applications to be created."
The datasets are available from the Victorian Government Data Directory.
The grand prize winner will receive $35,000 in cash prizes which is the largest prize pool awarded in this type of competition in the world. The judges will also award a second place prize of $15,000 and a third place of $10,000.
Competitors under the age of 26 are also eligible to win $15,000 in prizes, with the top prize awarded $5,000 in cash and a $5,000 hi-tech pack featuring a Cisco Flip Video camcorder, Apple MacBook Pro, PlayStation 3, Apple iPhone 16GB and the second prize awarded a hi-tech pack.
There is also a $10,000 Popular Choice prize, which rewards the most popular applications as voted on by the Victorian public - all entries are eligible.
Extra prizes would also be awarded to entrants who suggest innovative ideas for new applications.
There is also a special $10,000 sustainability category for apps that look at ways to encourage Victorians to be more environmental sustainability in the home, business or community.
Entries close at noon on Friday 23 April 2010. For more information and to read the full rules of the competition please visit App My State.
Related Links
- App My State a major Victorian Gov 2.0 success
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's personal eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Saturday, May 22, 2010. "Victoria's App My State competition has now closed to entries, and has already been an enormous success for the Gov 2.0 efforts in that state. The competition attracted 171 entries, 75 applications and 96 ideas, over 12 weeks. Judging has now commenced - with the public able to vote for the 'popular choice' award and other awards now being considered by judges, with winners announced on 7 June..."
- App my world
- By Rob O'Brien. Government News, 7 June 2010. "Lachlan Ross entered the Victorian State Government's recent AppMyState competition not to advance his own developer credentials but to produce an application that solved 'real world problems' and changed behaviour. The competition was open to Victorians earlier this year, encouraging them to create web and mobile apps (short for applications) to benefit other Victorians – and giving them the chance to win a share of $100,000 in prizes..."
- Data.vic.gov.au - Victorian Government Data Directory
- "data.vic.gov.au is your online access point to Victorian Government public sector information. You can search or browse to a variety of datasets in different formats, then you can download the information you need. The data made available via www.data.vic.gov.au is specifically for the App My State competition at this time..."
- Here Comes an Open Idea and Application Contest from Downunder: What's Next?
- by Andrea DiMaio. Gartner, March 1, 2010. "The state of Victoria, Australia, has just issued an application contest (App My State) for Victorian residents to leverage the 90 data set that the state makes available..."
- Vic govt offers cash for apps
- By Colin Ho. ZDNet Australia, 1 March 2010. "On Friday, Victorian Premier John Brumby launched an application development competition with a prize pool of $100,000, with government data being opened up for use in the competition..."
- Victoria lands 90 new innovation starters
- Posted by Alan Noble, Engineering Director Google Australia and New Zealand. The Official Google Australia, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. "I'm thrilled to see a great initiative in Victoria. Premier John Brumby has announced that 90 new Victorian Government datasets have been released and set free for public access and consumption from www.data.vic.gov.au. That's 90 new ways to kick start innovation..."
- Victoria's App My State Hack Day
- "We are having a Hack Day to support App My State... Summary: An energetic 24 hours of brainstorming, designing and coding. Developers, designers and ideas people form teams and create web and mobile applications from scratch. From concept to working application, teams will give a 5 minute presentation on their app after 24 hours (note: you don't have to be there for the entire 24 hours). You can bring your own teams or form teams on the day. We'll have special guests on hand to award prizes and all applications will be eligible for the main App My State prizes. There will be plenty of Government rep's in attendance to discuss how applications could be adopted by Government. For those who cannot attend a live blog and video footage will be available on this site. Location: Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Box Hill. Date: 8 - 9 May 2010..."
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- The Victorian Government's App My State, the world's biggest government apps competition has announced its awards. The competition received 170 entries including 74 application entries and 96 application ideas.
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