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Apr 19 CommentsThanks to all who entered the 3rd @NYCBigApps competition. Looking forward to trying some out!
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See more award ceremony photos over on NYCEDC’s photostream!
Last night, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winners of NYC BigApps 3.0, the third annual competition for software developers and members of the public to create web or mobile applications using official City data. A total of 11 winning applications were selected from a record 96 eligible applications that were submitted for this year’s contest. The NYC BigApps 3.0 winners are:
Best Overall Application
- Grand Prize: NYCFacets - seeks to streamline and simplify the process for accessing, understanding, and utilizing the tremendous amount of data available in City’s NYC Open Data site.
- Second Prize: Work+ - helps New Yorkers who traditionally work from home find nearby locations to work in their communities.
Popular Choice Award
- Grand Prize: New York Trip Builder - a travel site that helps users personalize a trip in just a few quick steps.
- Second Prize: Scene Near Me - provides alerts when users are near legendary New York City movie scenes.
Investor’s Choice Award
- The Funday Genie - an application designed to help users plan a free day in New York City.
Best Mobility App
- Embark NYC - an application designed to make taking the subway simple.
Best Green App
- 596 Acres - a public education project aimed at making communities in Brooklyn aware of the land resources around them.
Best Education App
- Sage: Pre-K and Elementary Schools Search - a mobile application that enables parents to search by location for nearby NYC public Pre-K and elementary schools.
Best Health & Safety App
- TestFlip.com Personal Safety App (Lite) for NYC - a personal emergency web mobile application which helps alert the nearest Police Precinct, provides a custom emergency phone number by SMS or provides a pre-scripted voice message or a custom email by simply pressing one Emergency Button.
Best NYC Mashup
- Work+
Best Student Award
- ParkAlly - an application which simplifies the search for available parking spots and eliminates the inconveniences associated with parking in heavily populated areas.
City Talent Award
- Uhpartments - provides building maintenance reports for those users seeking apartments.
First launched in 2009 as part of the City’s ongoing efforts to increase transparency in government, as well as to improve the quality of life for New Yorkers and visitors, BigApps has grown each year and this year included more than 230 new datasets from more than 60 City agencies, commissions, and Business Improvement Districts, for a total of nearly 750 available data sets for developers.
Check out all the winning apps and read much more in the official press release. Congratulations to all who participated in this year’s competition!
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NYC, we’ll see you tonight!
The NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony with Mayor Michael Bloomberg is mere hours away! Check out nearly 100 apps entered this year.
Special thanks to IAC for contributing the venue. Photo credit: Adam Friedberg
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NYCEDC: NYC BigApps: Free Tickets!
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We’re counting down the seconds until the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony on Tuesday, April 17th, where we’ll announce the winners of Mayor Bloomberg’s annual challenge to developers to create innovative apps using official City data to serve NYC residents, businesses, and visitors. This year, we received a record-breaking ~100 eligible software apps from developers, competing for $50,000 in cash and other prizes.
Want to see what the buzz is all about? You too can join the awards ceremony and join in the BigApps fun. We’re giving out tickets via our #NYCBigAppsTix giveaway, where you’ll have a chance to receive tickets to the show the evening of Tuesday, April 17th in Chelsea. Along with the tech, investor and NYC government community, share in drinks and hors d’oeuvres and be part of the excitement as the Mayor hands out prizes for the best apps, including two Popular Choice awards.
NYCEDC and the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication (DoITT) have worked with more than 60 City agencies, Commissions, and Business Improvement Districts to make more than 230 new datasets available on NYC Open Data portal at www.nyc.gov/data for a total of nearly 750 available data sets. And you can help us brainstorm more!
Here’s how it works:
Follow us and tweet @NYCEDC with your original, new and useful dataset idea. You can check to see if the dataset already exists by searching www.nyc.gov/data. Please also see terms of use here.
Be sure to include hashtag #NYCBigAppsTix to ensure that your submission is counted.Here’s a prompt to get you started: Hey @NYCEDC, I want #NYCBigAppsTix! My dataset idea is:
The first 50 people to submit dataset ideas that are responsive to this announcement will each receive up to two (2) tickets to attend the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony (we’ll direct-message you and ask you to provide additional contact information). If you are one of these first 50 people, your name and dataset ideas may also be published on NYCEDC’s blog.
The period for submitting your dataset ideas will run from Wednesday, April 11th at 12:00 PM through Friday, April 13th at 12:00 PM. The first 50 people who submit applicable dataset ideas will be notified no later than Friday evening, April 13th at 5:00 PM regarding their tickets to attend the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony.
NYC BigApps 3.0 continues New York City’s ongoing engagement with the software developer community to improve the City, building on the first two annual BigApps competitions through new data, prizes, and resources. Learn more at www.nycbigapps.com.
NYC BigApps also furthers New York City’s open data efforts. As part of the Citywide Open Data Legislation, Local Law 11 of 2012, DoITT is currently developing technical standards and guidelines for City agencies. Learn more about how you can help NYC government unlock its data.
