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'''NYC BigApps''' is an annual competition sponsored by the [[government of New York City]]. It provides local programmers, developers and entrepreneurs with access to municipal data sets to build applications for the Web, tablets and mobile phones. Contestants have access to more than 170 data sets supplied by over 30 city agencies, including weekly traffic updates, schedules of citywide events, property sales, restaurant inspections and mappable data around school and voting districts. The contest does not include information such as subway schedules from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, because the city doesn’t have control over that data. However, the organizers include data from the NYC Department of Transportation. The contest is part of a larger [[New York City]] effort to increase government transparency and encourage entrepreneurship.<ref name="Foot 1">{{cite web|last=WORTHAM|first=JENNA|title=New York City Wants You to Create an App For That|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/new-york-city-wants-you-to-create-an-app-for-that/|publisher=The New York Times. 6 Oct 2009|accessdate=5 June 2013}}</ref>
'''NYC BigApps''' is an annual competition sponsored by the [[government of New York City]]. It provides local programmers, developers and entrepreneurs with access to municipal data sets to build applications for the Web, tablets and mobile phones. Contestants have access to more than 170 data sets supplied by over 30 city agencies, including weekly traffic updates, schedules of citywide events, property sales, restaurant inspections and mappable data around school and voting districts. The contest does not include information such as subway schedules from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, because the city doesn’t have control over that data. However, the organizers include data from the NYC Department of Transportation. The contest is part of a larger [[New York City]] effort to increase government transparency and encourage [[entrepreneurship]].<ref name="Foot 1">{{cite web|last=WORTHAM|first=JENNA|title=New York City Wants You to Create an App For That|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/new-york-city-wants-you-to-create-an-app-for-that/|publisher=The New York Times. 6 Oct 2009|accessdate=5 June 2013}}</ref>


== Contest has mixed results ==
== Contest has mixed results ==

Revision as of 01:03, 7 July 2013

NYC BigApps is an annual competition sponsored by the government of New York City. It provides local programmers, developers and entrepreneurs with access to municipal data sets to build applications for the Web, tablets and mobile phones. Contestants have access to more than 170 data sets supplied by over 30 city agencies, including weekly traffic updates, schedules of citywide events, property sales, restaurant inspections and mappable data around school and voting districts. The contest does not include information such as subway schedules from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, because the city doesn’t have control over that data. However, the organizers include data from the NYC Department of Transportation. The contest is part of a larger New York City effort to increase government transparency and encourage entrepreneurship.[1]

Contest has mixed results

Some contest winners have gone on to become viable companies. For example, MyCityWay, was a contest winner in 2010.[2] MyCityWay subsequently raised venture capital funding from FirstMark Capital and IA Ventures, as well as a strategic investment from BMW. [3]

On the other hand concerns have been expressed that many contest winners fail to become viable companies. For example, the grand-prize winner for 2011 was an app that let people swap information about how subway trains were running. A year later, it seemed to have attracted very few users. Sportaneous, a 2011 pickup-sports app that won second place and the Popular Choice Award, is no longer available in Apple’s App Store, and is back in testing.[4]

Contest judges

Judges for the contest have included: Dawn Barber, Co-founder, New York Tech Meetup; John Borthwick, CEO, Betaworks; Chris Dixon, CEO & Co-founder, Hunch; Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square, and Co-founder, Twitter; Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure; Lawrence Lenihan, Founder, CEO and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital; Naveen Selvadurai, Co-founder, Foursquare; Steven Strauss, Managing Director, NYCEDC; Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Director, All Things Digital; Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures.[5]

References

  1. ^ WORTHAM, JENNA. "New York City Wants You to Create an App For That". The New York Times. 6 Oct 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  2. ^ "MyCityWay". CrunchBase. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ Wauters, Robin. "BMW Teams Up With, Invests $5 Million In MyCityWay". TechCrunch. 25 Feb 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Contest Whose Winners May Not Succeed". NY Times. March 2, 2012.
  5. ^ "MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF NYC BIGAPPS 2.0 COMPETITION". NYC.gov. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

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