In 2012 and 2013 the ePSIplatform team has awarded Trail Blazer Awards. Trail blazers are groups and initiatives that are opening up new frontiers with their work on open data. The 2013 ePSIplatform Trail Blazer Awards were presented to Polish open data initiatives at the ePSIplatform Conference in Warsaw on 22 February.
More than just an award, the ePSIplatform seeks to work with the...
The Austrian national data portal has won a 2nd prize at the eAward 2012 in Vienna.
The eAward intends to showcase the possibilities and opportunities of ICT in innovating business processes and transforming society. The competition has a focal point in e-government, and show...
The Knight News Challenge on open government will run from Feb. 12 to March 18 in the USA, and is focussing on open government. Citizens and public sector bodies will have the opportunity to signal problems or opportunities for open government in their communities. Coders can jump in to help solve those problems.
"One of our goals for the News Challenge is to involve more people in the...
The Guardian (UK), together with Google and the Open Knowledge Foundation are launching a competition on data visualization:
"All we want you to do is to take an open dataset from any government open data website and visualise it."
"The competition is open to citizens of the UK, US, France,...
Today the second Dataconnexions event took place in Paris, France. Dataconnexions is the French community of open data re-users working on innovative projects, hosted by Etalab the French government open data task force.
Like last year the Dataconnexions combined sessions and discussions on bringing open data forward, as well as presenting and announcing the winners of the connected...
