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Ottawa Open Data App Contest

$50 000 in prizes $50 000 in prizes

Ottawa’s first application creation contest has wrapped up. Congratulations to all our winners.

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The City of Ottawa is committed to improving citizen engagement, and enhancing transparency and accountability by providing public access to its data. To encourage the meaningful and productive use of this data, the City has launched an Open Data contest.

The contest seeks to reward developers of the most useful, creative, and effective web-based applications and tools, to allow people to easily make use of the City of Ottawa’s data.

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  • Having Fun in Ottawa
  • Getting Around
  • Green Environment/Sustainability
  • Community Building
  • Economic Development

Contest Winners

Overall Winner:
  • Ottawa Guide - Ekwa Jacob Duala-Ekoko
People's Choice:
  • Where is my bus? - Jonathan Rudenberg
  • Ottawa Guide - Ekwa Jacob Duala-Ekoko
Student Award:
  • OttawaFun.ca - Tyler Pearce
Having Fun in Ottawa:
  • Gold:  OttawaFun.ca - Tyler Pearce
  • Silver:  Ottawa Pastoral - James DeMond
  • Bronze:  Ottawa Dog Park Finder - Thomas J Bradley
Getting Around:
  • Gold:  Ottawa Enroute - Michael Russell
  • Silver:  My Oc Transpo - Ali Al-Munayer
  • Bronze:  Ottawa Pools - Phillipe Guitard
  • Bronze(tie):  Ottawa Rinks - Phillipe Guitard
Green Environment/Sustainability:
  • Gold:  Collection Calendar - Alec Mills
  • Silver:  GoLocavore - Chris Wise
  • Bronze:  Ottawa Recycles - Bill Wilson
Community Building:
  • Gold:  Ottawa Biking Problems - Alex deVries
  • Silver:  Ottawa Account - Fenqiang Zhuang
  • Bronze:  ShinnyApp - Shawn French
Economic Development:
  • Gold:  Ottawa Guide - Ekwa Jacod Duala-Ekoko
  • Silver:  Ottawa Inside Out - Samir Al-Battran
  • Bronze:  Temporals.com - Mike Felepchuk
Ideas:
  • Construction Ottawa - Magdalena Barys
  • Estimated Bus Location and Time - Mohamed Nur
  • Urgent Care! - Mike Kelly

For more information on Ottawa’s continuing Open Government and Open Data initiative visit http://www.ottawa.ca/online_services/opendata/index_en.html

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