One way federal agencies create mobile products is through contests on Challenge.gov. The Department of Treasury recently named winners for it’s MyMoneyAppUp Challenge, which it describes: Earlier this year, Treasury and our partners called on Americans to participate in the nationwide MyMoneyAppUp Challenge by submitting their best mobile app ideas and designs to help consumers make smart [...]

Federal agencies have sought mobile product partnerships outside of their agency in multiple ways. One way to seek new partnerships is to challenge developers to build smartphone apps and other mobile products via Challenge.gov.  The Environmental Protection Agency closed its “Apps for the Environment” challenge this week and recieved 38 app entries. EPA put this [...]

With your help, we’ve discovered the case for Mobile Gov and discussed ten challenges to agencies trying to use mobile technologies to achieve their missions and better serve the American public. Our next step is to gather the smart minds of people in government, industry, nonprofits, academia and the general public to Design Mobile Gov. What Tell us! [...]

EPA wants developers to help unleash the power of their data and build useful apps. EPA challenges you to find new ways to combine and deliver environmental data in a new app.  In the Apps for the Environment challenge, you have free reign to make an app that uses EPA data, addresses one of Administrator Lisa [...]

Another exciting apps challenge, brought to you from our friends at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Pass it on, they’re offering $35,000 in prizes. Check out the CDC Flu App Challenge. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking for an innovative and creative use of technology to raise awareness [...]

While we’re on the topic of apps challenges (see posts on contests for Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission), did you know there are resources to help you run your own apps challenge? First, why a challenge? Well, government doesn’t have all the answers, and a challenge lets government tap into the creativity [...]

Here’s another nod to crowdsourcing innovations. The Feceral Communications Commission (FCC) launched a contest that asks Can a mobile app improve the quality of life for a farmer in America’s heartland? Can a web app help school children in Detroit,MI? Teaming with the Knight Foundation, the FCC is offering a grand prize of $30,000 and [...]

Interested in education? We’re guessing that since you’re here you’re interested in mobile. Interested in winning $1,000? Bringing all these interests together the U.S. Department of Education, the NEA Foundation and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) is sponsoring a challenge. C2i Mobile Project: Are you up to the mobile challenge? C2i raises the stakes with [...]