Book description
A guide to insights and best practices with both open data sharing and civic apps competitions based on the authors' experience with Apps 4 Metro Chicago IL. This will also serve as a "how-to" guide for community and developer outreach, which is a key element to a successful competition.
Table of contents
- Civic Apps Competition Handbook
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- Preface
- 1. The Pursuit of Accountability, Efficiency, and Economic Growth
- 2. Benefits of Civic Apps Competitions
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3. Identifying Goals and Metrics for Your Apps Competition
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Translating Benefits into Goals and Metrics
- 1. Raise Awareness of Available Open Government Data Sources
- 2. Build Apps on Open Data
- 3. Create Apps That Benefit Residents, Visitors, and Businesses
- 4. Improve Government Transparency
- 5. Drive Innovation
- 6. Crowdsource Data Publishing Priorities
- 7. Build a Community of Practice Around Open Government Data
- Identifying Your Competition’s Ideal Goals and Metrics of Success
- Table of Robust Goals and Metrics
- Next Chapter: Building Your Budget
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Translating Benefits into Goals and Metrics
- 4. Building Your CAC Budget
- 5. Surveying Your Data Resources
- 6. Designing Your CAC
- 7. Common Roadblocks
- 8. Building on Success
- About the Authors
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- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Civic Apps Competition Handbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449322649
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