[UCIMC-Tech] Fwd: Illinois Open Technology Challenge | Challenge

[Danielle Chynoweth]

FYI.  Does Makerspace have a listserv I can post to? - D


On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Barbara Webster <
barbara.webster at broadbandillinois.org> wrote:

Hi Brandon,

You have likely heard of this, but wanted to pass along just in case.  Feel
free to share.

-- 
Barbara Webster
Regional Coordinator
Broadband Illinois/PCI
www.broadbandillinois.org
618-843-8433

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From: Roxana Ryan <roxana.ryan at broadbandillinois.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:59 PM
Subject: Illinois Open Technology Challenge | Challenge
To: Brad Housewright <brad.housewright at broadbandillinois.org>,
ernest.sanders at broadbandillinois.org, Barb Webster <
barbara.webster at broadbandillinois.org>, Clayton Black
clayton.black at broadbandillinois.org


********Challenge ********

The Illinois Open Technology Challenge brings governments, developers, and
communities together in a common mission to use public data to create
digital tools that serve civic needs and promote economic development.

This multi-month initiative aims to make Illinois’ open data platform,
Data.Illinois.Gov <http://www.data.illinois.gov/>, available statewide, and
host government trainings, community meetings and hackathons that will
bring together developers in technology with civic-minded individuals and
organizations. Our goal is to help develop a real community where we will
see sustainable civic results and developers will prosper.

Through the generous support of the State of Illinois, Illinois Science &
Technology Coalition, The Chicago Community Trust, the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation, and the Motorola Mobility Foundation, at least $65K in
total prize money will be awarded to any individual, or team of individuals
for developing innovative software applications that utilize open
government data to best address the challenges in one of our communities:
Belleville, Champaign, Rockford and South Suburbs.

The broad criteria is as follows:

   - Use at least one dataset from www.data.illinois.gov,
   www.metrochicagodata.org, or www.ssatlas.org.
   - Use and/or publish as much open source code as possible
   - Attempt to solve a community problem

The first step in all of this is to come together as a community to share
code, review data, and talk about what issues we want to try to solve
through technology. Here’s the schedule of first meetings:

   - South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association: Tuesday, November 27
   - Rockford: Late November 2012
   - Belleville: Early December  2012
   - Champaign: Early December 2012

Are you interested in attending one of these meetings? Join our
list<http://eepurl.com/oCLdf> and
let us know. Remember: this is about solving local issues with data and
technology. You don’t have to live in one of these areas– you just have to
be interested in solving problems there!



http://illinoisopentech.org/challenge/
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