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Submit your project ideas to the Knight News Challenge: Open Gov.
Tell us about your idea, why you think it's a good one, and how you and your team will make it happen. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas.
Data Docs - Bringing Data Literacy To The Masses With Interactive Videos And Live Numbers
Data Docs is an animated video series that combines interactive infographics drawn from live government data and captivating animation to bring data literacy to the masses http://www.datadocs.org/prototype (optimized for Firefox)
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Lam Thuy Vo
April 05, 2013
10:15AM |
Gov.Zero is government services information and access, voice and text portal for majority world users that excludes almost no one.
Gov.Zero - near-universal majority-world access to government info on services and rights
Gov.Zero is government services information and access, voice and text portal for majority world users that excludes almost no one.
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Matthew Gale
March 21, 2013
05:35PM |
This web application will give the ability for municipalities across the United States to form a large cooperative purchasing group in order to lower the costs of services, equipment and products.
Municipality Cooperative Purchasing App
This web application will give the ability for municipalities across the United States to form a large cooperative purchasing group in order to lower the costs of services, equipment and products.
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Collin Druck
March 21, 2013
05:30PM |
The Venezuelan Parliament at one click.
#ContactAN
The Venezuelan Parliament at one click.
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Xavier Rodríguez Franco
March 21, 2013
05:25PM |
![Thumbnail : Visualization of personal transit accessibility with the proposed Purple Line light rail project in Maryland. [OTP Analyst]](http://opengov.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/community-driven-transportation-planning/gallery/purple_line.jpg/)
Community-Driven Transportation Planning
Transportation policy affects us all, but options for the public to engage with its planning are limited. By providing tools that help people appreciate the impact of projects at a personal level, we can strengthen participation and improve outcomes.
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David Emory
March 18, 2013
09:47PM |
Here's My Chance
Here's My Chance seeks to leverage quality visual storytelling, genuine child-like curiosity, recognizable public figures and provocative narratives to jump start conversation and action on the community issues we all face but take for granted.
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David Gloss
March 14, 2013
06:11PM |
DemocracyLab: A workspace for developers, activists and donors to co-create open source civic tech.
The Facebook of the civic tech world hasn’t yet emerged, and let’s face it – we don’t want it to. If the internet is to optimize civic decision making, the tools we use must be a public utility, not a corporate asset. Let’s put our heads together…
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Mark Frischmuth
March 19, 2013
03:06PM |
BLDG 20- The collaborative content creation platform
BLDG 20 is a place for bloggers, journalists, researchers, policymakers and others to submit a first draft or idea for a long-form article called a “Story.” Other users contribute feedback and research in the form of "Notes" to complete the draft.
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Jason Wojciechowski
March 19, 2013
01:21AM |
FOIAPedia is an easily searchable database that will allow journalists, watchdog groups, and others to find documents about corporations that have been released through the Freedom of Information Act, thus avoiding the need for redundant requests.
Building FOIAPedia for Corporate Documents from the Federal Government
FOIAPedia is an easily searchable database that will allow journalists, watchdog groups, and others to find documents about corporations that have been released through the Freedom of Information Act, thus avoiding the need for redundant requests.
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Joel Gurin
March 19, 2013
09:40AM |
REForms (Repository of Electronic Forms)
One of the early stages of e-government is providing easy access to information, something we still lack in developing world. This project aims to build a central repository of forms used in public offices with the help of citizen involvement.
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Amir Hayat
March 19, 2013
02:44PM |
The Honesty Project
Our team is developing a website that will facilitate secure online communications between whistleblowers and professional journalists. Our goal is to develop and refine open-source software to protect the anonymity and privacy of whistleblowers.
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James Tobias
March 19, 2013
04:45PM |
DirectCongress.org; American Democracy 2.0
Congress often puts fundraising ahead of American's best interests. DirectCongress.org fixes this problem with a consensus-building lawmaking forum and a movement to support candidates from any party who commit to vote how citizens vote online.
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Cory Suter
March 14, 2013
03:31PM |
AllocateYourTaxDollars.org provides national spending priorities to Congress from We the People.
AllocateYourTaxDollars.org develops national spending priorities or percentages to be allocated for education, military, healthcare, etc. and assists elected officials in bringing the federal budget and legislation closer to the will of the people.
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Erin Sanborn
March 14, 2013
07:30PM |
Anti-Tableception
Tableception=forcing one to go from one table to another to another to finish what you need such as renewing passport at government offices in Myanmar.Anti-tableception aims to simplify it with the access to information related to public services.
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Chan Myae Khine
March 19, 2013
02:04PM |
Empowering the people: Engaging new Chinese immigrants in participatory democracy
Newcomers from Mainland China are completely new to participatory democracy, and, according to the largest Asian immigrant aid organization in British Columbia, there is a definite need to engage our newest residents in a meaningful way.
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Paul Bucci
March 15, 2013
03:42PM |
We are looking to "gamify" the business start-up process in Miami-Dade County, using visualization techniques to monitor start-up progress, simulate business decisions, and connect entrepreneurs with other business "players" in their community.
Gamification of Miami-Dade County's Business Start-up Process.
We are looking to "gamify" the business start-up process in Miami-Dade County, using visualization techniques to monitor start-up progress, simulate business decisions, and connect entrepreneurs with other business "players" in their community.
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Mike Sarasti
March 19, 2013
04:50PM |
Oregon’s Kitchen Table
Oregon’s Kitchen Table provides Oregonians a voice in public decisions. A group of non-partisan, non-profit community organizations created the statewide online tool to give decision-makers the opportunity to query citizens on real policy decisions.
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Sarah Giles
March 17, 2013
07:53PM |
We are proposing that a data portal and cataloging system be developed and implemented to increase public access to a variety of data sets (both raw and aggregated).
Local Open Government Data Initiative
We are proposing that a data portal and cataloging system be developed and implemented to increase public access to a variety of data sets (both raw and aggregated).
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TJ Maciak
March 07, 2013
04:31PM |
As NYC prepares to spend billions of dollars to combat the risk of flooding from future superstorms, this digital project would provide stakeholders and the public a voice in the climate change adaptation planning process.
AdaptNY - Amplifying Stakeholder Voices in NYC's Climate Change Adaptation Plan
As NYC prepares to spend billions of dollars to combat the risk of flooding from future superstorms, this digital project would provide stakeholders and the public a voice in the climate change adaptation planning process.
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Adam Glenn
March 19, 2013
04:56PM |
Citizen feedback generating media content regarding quality of government service delivery
Citizens in African countries with corrupt/ authoritarian governments send toll free secure text messages about bad service delivery straight to an off shore database. Journalists download infographics from the website regarding these problems.
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Floor Montanus
March 15, 2013
09:42AM |
