Code for Oakland (6/4/11) - Photos by Oakland Digital (ODALC)
Code for Oakland is a one day workshop for people interested in using Oakland and Alameda County, CA data to build mobile apps for the 2011 Knight/FCC Apps for Communities Competition (see appsforcommunities.challenge.gov)
The Knight Foundation and the FCC came to Oakland, CA in April 2011 to announce a major new tech competition called Apps for Communities that will award $100,000 in prizes to reward mobile and web-based applications that use government and public data to "deliver personalized, actionable information to people that are least likely to be online."
So, that’s where Code for Oakland comes in. We’re pulling together a low-cost one-day Bar Camp that will bring government officials, developers, designers, and interested parties together for a day that will be devoted to looking at local datasets of use to people in Oakland, and that gives teams a chance to talk through, brainstorm and prototype their ideas before the competition closes on July 11.
Photos courtesy Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center | Oakland Digital (ODALC) | www.odalc.org.
Code for Oakland (6/4/11) - Photos by Oakland Digital (ODALC)
Code for Oakland is a one day workshop for people interested in using Oakland and Alameda County, CA data to build mobile apps for the 2011 Knight/FCC Apps for Communities Competition (see appsforcommunities.challenge.gov)
The Knight Foundation and the FCC came to Oakland, CA in April 2011 to announce a major new tech competition called Apps for Communities that will award $100,000 in prizes to reward mobile and web-based applications that use government and public data to "deliver personalized, actionable information to people that are least likely to be online."
So, that’s where Code for Oakland comes in. We’re pulling together a low-cost one-day Bar Camp that will bring government officials, developers, designers, and interested parties together for a day that will be devoted to looking at local datasets of use to people in Oakland, and that gives teams a chance to talk through, brainstorm and prototype their ideas before the competition closes on July 11.
Photos courtesy Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center | Oakland Digital (ODALC) | www.odalc.org.