[UCIMC-Tech] Illinois Open Technology Challenge | Challenge

[Chris Ritzo]

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Danielle Chynoweth <chyn at ojctech.com>wrote:

> FYI.  Does Makerspace have a listserv I can post to? - D
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> On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Barbara Webster <
> barbara.webster at broadbandillinois.org> wrote:
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> Hi Brandon,
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> You have likely heard of this, but wanted to pass along just in case.
> Feel free to share.
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> Barbara Webster
> Regional Coordinator
> Broadband Illinois/PCI
> www.broadbandillinois.org
> 618-843-8433
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
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> ********Challenge ********
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The broad criteria is as follows:
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>    - 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
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> 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:
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>    - South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association: Tuesday, November 27
>    - Rockford: Late November 2012
>    - Belleville: Early December  2012
>    - Champaign: Early December 2012
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> 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!
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> http://illinoisopentech.org/challenge/
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