Resources to Help Run an Apps or Mobile Apps Challenge

Rules

• Apps Against Abuse
• Apps for Climate Action (British Columbia Government)
• Apps for Communities
• Apps for Greater Portland
• Apps for Healthy Kids
• Apps for the Environment
• CDC Flu App Challenge
• FCC Open Internet Apps Challenge
• Go Viral to Improve Health: IOM-NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge
• myHealthyPeople Application Developer Challenge
• NLM Show Off Your Apps: Innovative Uses of NLM Information
• NYC Big Apps 3.0
• SMART Apps for Health
• The ASPR Lifeline Facebook Application Challenge
• Using Public Data for Cancer Prevention and Control: From Innovation to Impact

Lessons Learned

• Listen to a podcast on the World Bank's Apps for Development challenge from the March 1st, Apps Challenge Workshop
  (MP3, 11774 KB, 12 minutes, March 2011)
• USDA Apps for Healthy Kids Lessons Learned
  (MS Word, 12 KB, 2 pages, February 2011)

Apps Challenges in the News

• Everyone jumped on the app contest bandwagon.  Now what? (O'Reilly Radar)
• Opening government, the Chicago way (O'Reilly Radar)
• White House, Open Data Developers Trade Ideas (Government Technology)
• How many cities worldwide have sponsored apps contests? (Quora)
• Do-gooder apps, brought to you by the EPA (Gigaom)
• Data Sharing Behind DOL App Development Contests
  (Occupational Health & Safety Magazine)
• App Quest Contest Challenges Developers To Create Apps Using NYC Data
  (Mashable)
• NYC BigApps Ideas Challenge Looks to Involve Everyone (ProgrammableWeb)
• Chicago Tries to Build a Better Apps Contest (Government Technology)
• NYC holds apps contest for people who can't write apps (Government Computer News)
• Open Government is Dead, or Long Live Open Government? (Technorati)
• EPA's Apps for the Environment promotion video (YouTube)
• Apps Contests are 'Alive and Well' (techPresident)
• The Pros and Cons of Government Apps Contests (ProgrammableWeb)
• Open Gov West Apps Contest Winners (Diggz)
• Apps Contest Winners Need Better Government Data to Sustain Innovative Services (Government Technology)
• A Year of Open Data at the World Bank (YouTube)
• Long-Term Open Source Solutions on Cities’ Radar (Government Technology)
• First, a Better Block. Now, a Better App? An Effort to Open Source the City of Dallas (Dallas Observer)
• HHS Opening Data up for Challenges
• Army Bloggers Roundtable: Apps for the Army Challenge Winners (DOD Live)
• USDA holds ‘Apps for Healthy Kids’ contest (Federal News Radio)
• Apps For Healthy Kids introduction
• NYC Big Apps

Join the Prize & Challenge Community of Practice

To join the Prize & Challenge Community of Practice, send an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GSA.GOV with the text “SUBSCRIBE CHALLENGES” in the body. Leave the subject line blank, and be sure to delete your signature block and any other extraneous text from the created message. You must be a federal employee to participate; this is a two-step sign-on process, and you will be asked for proper identification. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Trebon.

Review all the apps challenge steps at a glance on the How to Run an Apps Challenge page.

Content Lead: Karen Trebon
Page Reviewed/Updated: July 9, 2012