Kate Eyler-Werve

Civic Apps Competition Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Planning, Organizing, and Troubleshooting

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Organize a Civic Apps Competition (CAC) in your city. This practical guide provides best practices for each phase of the process, based largely on the authors firsthand experience planning and managing Apps for Metro Chicago (A4MC). Youll learn everything from setting goals and creating a budget to running the competition and measuring the outcome.CACs provide software programmers with platforms for building effective apps, using open government data as a way to foster community involvement and make government more transparent. This handbook helps you address serious questions about the process and shows you whats required for making your competition successful.Gain insights from the authors survey of 15 CACs in the US and CanadaGet guidelines for establishing specific goals, and evaluate results with reliable metricsUnderstand major costs involved and build a budget around partners and sponsorsDetermine participation incentives, prize categories, and judgingAvoid unstructured data sets by being selective when choosing public datasetsLearn how the authors handled roadblocks during the A4MC competitionDiscover ways to sustain lasting community interest once the CAC is over

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449322601
• Artikelnr.: 52828840

Autorenporträt

Kate specializes in helping organizations adapt to disruptive technologies and ideas. When Walmart decided to go green, Kate designed and led campaigns to engage their 1.2 million employees with sustainability. When Mayor Rahm Emanuel decided to make Chicago more transparent, Kate led the launch team for the 2011 Apps for Metro Chicago Competition. She is currently a co-author on the O'Reilly Media Guide to Civic Apps Competitions and is looking for the next disruptive idea to play with. Virginia Carlson, Ph.D. is a national figure in the role of information resources and their role in harnessing information for urban revitalization. She has developed and applied her expertise in a variety of settings, including: identifying data sources for the State of Illinois Index of Leading Indicators; constructing economic indicators for redevelopment options in Gorj County, Romania; identifying key data intervention points for federal data as the Deputy Director for Data Policy at the Brookings Institution's Urban Markets Initiative; and designing the strategic information approach for the campaign to induce The Boeing Company to move its headquarters to Chicago. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Public Data Users.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
A Practical Guide for Organizing a Civic Apps Competition
This Guide
Contact Us
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Chapter 1: The Pursuit of Accountability, Efficiency, and Economic Growth
1.1 History of Apps Contests
1.2 Next Chapter: What CACs Create
Chapter 2: Benefits of Civic Apps Competitions
2.1 Case Study
2.2 What Civic Apps Competitions Achieve
2.3 Next Chapter: Goals and Metrics
Chapter 3: Identifying Goals and Metrics for Your Apps Competition
3.1 Translating Benefits into Goals and Metrics
3.2 Identifying Your Competition's Ideal Goals and Metrics of Success
3.3 Table of Robust Goals and Metrics
3.4 Next Chapter: Building Your Budget
Chapter 4: Building Your CAC Budget
4.1 Partners
4.2 The Data
4.3 Cash Prizes
4.4 Competition Web Platform
4.5 Administration
4.6 Technical Support
4.7 Competition Length
4.8 Defraying Costs
4.9 Next Chapter: Data Resources
Chapter 5: Surveying Your Data Resources
5.1 Structured Versus Unstructured Data
5.2 Data Content
5.3 Documentation
5.4 Next Chapter: Design
Chapter 6: Designing Your CAC
6.1 Participation Incentives
6.2 Prize Categories
6.3 Judging Criteria
6.4 Judging Process
6.5 Judge Selection
6.6 Type of Eligible Apps: Mobile, Web, Tablet
6.7 Participation Drivers: Events and Communications
6.8 Next Chapter: Common Roadblocks
Chapter 7: Common Roadblocks
7.1 Who Owns the App After the Competition Is Over?
7.2 Next Chapter: The Long Game
Chapter 8: Building on Success
8.1 Engaging in Conversation
8.2 Participating in Events
8.3 Continuing to Build Apps
8.4 Closing Thoughts