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DATA IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE.
And publicly available data can now illuminate solutions to challenges like no other time in our history. There is no single entity that collects and manages more data than government. Unfortunately, many of the systems and processes that collect this data have not kept up with the demand and the potential for it.
The world-wide Open Data movement asks government entities of all sizes to make their data—a public asset—available to developers and entrepreneurs so its potential can be realized.
Go Code Colorado is taking a lead position in this movement.
The first and only statewide effort of its kind, Go Code Colorado brings together a community of entrepreneurs, business partners, and developers to make use of public data through a series of events. These events center around a challenge weekend in five cities across the state, engaging the entire state in two days of innovation around the use of public data. Teams in each of the five cities compete to build apps that use public data to help businesses make smarter decisions. Two teams from each city move on in the competition, getting help from a network of mentors—including a mentorship weekend in Boulder—as they further develop their ideas. The teams come back together again for a final event where they pitch their ideas to judges.
The three teams deemed the best are awarded a contract with the state—an invaluable first customer to a fledgling business that provides critical initial revenue.
Go Code Colorado is an initiative through the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, which seeks to return value to Colorado businesses from business registration fees they collect. In its inaugural year, this is the value Go Code Colorado returned to our state:
COMMUNITY BUILDING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Go Code Colorado increased civic engagement in the business, entrepreneurial, and tech communities.
Business leaders volunteered their time across the event series because they desire more access to government data—they know how important this is.
Dozens of business leaders volunteered a day with Go Code Colorado organizers to define the problems they face that public data can help solve.
179 people attended the Kickoff event.
130 people and 25 teams competed in the challenge weekend across Colorado (Boulder, Denver, Ft. Collins, Colorado Springs, and Durango).
The Mentor Weekend brought together 23 mentors to meet with ten teams.
The Final event attracted 223 people.
29 businesses supported open data and Go Code Colorado through $75,000 in cash donations and $120,000 worth of in-kind donations.
Companies like Google, Esri, SendGrid, Rally Software and Gnip (now Twitter)
TECH AND BUSINESS INNOVATION
Go Code Colorado is the most concerted effort in the state to increase the volume of public data in the state’s central repository.
33 new data sets were published as a result of last year’s efforts by agencies such as Revenue, Local Affairs, and Higher Education.
At least three businesses were created around three apps that use this data.
For instance, the winning team, Beagle Score created an app that helps provide a scorecard for business site-location decisions.
Beagle Score relies on many public data sets, including:
Business Registration dataset
City Taxes
County Taxes
Crime Statistics
NREL energy statistics
Traffic counts
Nearest Intersection
Energy rates and providers
Broadband service
and more
PROCUREMENT INNOVATION
Go Code Colorado is flipping traditional government procurement on its head, creating value to Colorado businesses and society.
According to the Standish Group, 94% of large federal IT projects over the past ten years were unsuccessful. Over 50% were delayed, over budget, or didn’t meet user expectations, and 41% failed completely.
Go Code Colorado challenges developers and entrepreneurs to solve business problems using public data by awarding companies who create working apps, not those with just a promise to do so.
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AND TRANSPARENCY
Go Code Colorado imagines a day when pulling a data report is a matter of a few pop up menu selections, and doesn’t require specialized knowledge, when data managers across government are able to focus on the work they do best and anyone can access the public data they collect and curate.
This is the promise of open data, and the step forward taking place with Go Code Colorado.
Joe Switalski, Chief Of Business Development - Foundation For Senior Living works to serve with dignity - just because you're human
Suzanne Skeete, a business consultant, trainer and mentor has taken her own E-Scan and is reflecting on how she feels using E-Scan going forward will help her improve the effectiveness of her services towards entrepreneurs and the benefits it will bring - increased sales.
Skills Matter - F# eXchange 6th-7th April 2017 in London at CodeNode. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8053-f-sharp-exchange-2017. Images Copyright of www.edtelling.com
DATA IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE.
And publicly available data can now illuminate solutions to challenges like no other time in our history. There is no single entity that collects and manages more data than government. Unfortunately, many of the systems and processes that collect this data have not kept up with the demand and the potential for it.
The world-wide Open Data movement asks government entities of all sizes to make their data—a public asset—available to developers and entrepreneurs so its potential can be realized.
Go Code Colorado is taking a lead position in this movement.
The first and only statewide effort of its kind, Go Code Colorado brings together a community of entrepreneurs, business partners, and developers to make use of public data through a series of events. These events center around a challenge weekend in five cities across the state, engaging the entire state in two days of innovation around the use of public data. Teams in each of the five cities compete to build apps that use public data to help businesses make smarter decisions. Two teams from each city move on in the competition, getting help from a network of mentors—including a mentorship weekend in Boulder—as they further develop their ideas. The teams come back together again for a final event where they pitch their ideas to judges.
The three teams deemed the best are awarded a contract with the state—an invaluable first customer to a fledgling business that provides critical initial revenue.
Go Code Colorado is an initiative through the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, which seeks to return value to Colorado businesses from business registration fees they collect. In its inaugural year, this is the value Go Code Colorado returned to our state:
COMMUNITY BUILDING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Go Code Colorado increased civic engagement in the business, entrepreneurial, and tech communities.
Business leaders volunteered their time across the event series because they desire more access to government data—they know how important this is.
Dozens of business leaders volunteered a day with Go Code Colorado organizers to define the problems they face that public data can help solve.
179 people attended the Kickoff event.
130 people and 25 teams competed in the challenge weekend across Colorado (Boulder, Denver, Ft. Collins, Colorado Springs, and Durango).
The Mentor Weekend brought together 23 mentors to meet with ten teams.
The Final event attracted 223 people.
29 businesses supported open data and Go Code Colorado through $75,000 in cash donations and $120,000 worth of in-kind donations.
Companies like Google, Esri, SendGrid, Rally Software and Gnip (now Twitter)
TECH AND BUSINESS INNOVATION
Go Code Colorado is the most concerted effort in the state to increase the volume of public data in the state’s central repository.
33 new data sets were published as a result of last year’s efforts by agencies such as Revenue, Local Affairs, and Higher Education.
At least three businesses were created around three apps that use this data.
For instance, the winning team, Beagle Score created an app that helps provide a scorecard for business site-location decisions.
Beagle Score relies on many public data sets, including:
Business Registration dataset
City Taxes
County Taxes
Crime Statistics
NREL energy statistics
Traffic counts
Nearest Intersection
Energy rates and providers
Broadband service
and more
PROCUREMENT INNOVATION
Go Code Colorado is flipping traditional government procurement on its head, creating value to Colorado businesses and society.
According to the Standish Group, 94% of large federal IT projects over the past ten years were unsuccessful. Over 50% were delayed, over budget, or didn’t meet user expectations, and 41% failed completely.
Go Code Colorado challenges developers and entrepreneurs to solve business problems using public data by awarding companies who create working apps, not those with just a promise to do so.
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AND TRANSPARENCY
Go Code Colorado imagines a day when pulling a data report is a matter of a few pop up menu selections, and doesn’t require specialized knowledge, when data managers across government are able to focus on the work they do best and anyone can access the public data they collect and curate.
This is the promise of open data, and the step forward taking place with Go Code Colorado.
Skills Matter - F# eXchange 6th-7th April 2017 in London at CodeNode. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8053-f-sharp-exchange-2017. Images Copyright of www.edtelling.com
Address: 10411 Kennedy Road
The George Henry Sommerfeldt House at 10411 Kennedy Road offers substantial historical significance to the Markham community. In 1831 John Henry Sommerfeldt received the patent to this property and then sold it to his son, George Henry Sommerfeldt, five days later. This two-storey regency style house was built approximately 1856 by George Henry Sommerfeldt. The Sommerfeldts are important as they were part of the original Pennsylvanian-German Berczy settlers who were significant in Markham's early development. The Sommerfeldts were also highly involved in the Lutheran community, donating to the building of the first Lutheran Church that was constructed in 1820. The George Henry Sommerfeldt House provides an excellent example of a residential agricultural grouping that shows the evolution of the family farm over decades while serving as a reminder of the original Berczy settlers. In 2003, it became a designated heritage property under the Ontario Heritage Act.
Photo courtesy of Heritage Markham, provided by Markham Museum.
Sources
City of Markham Bylaw 2003-157 The George Henry Sommerfeldt Sr. House heritage designation
Skills Matter - F# eXchange 6th-7th April 2017 in London at CodeNode. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8053-f-sharp-exchange-2017. Images Copyright of www.edtelling.com
Falgun Dharia is a successful businessman from New Jersey who has secured a special place in the business sector with his remarkable business understanding and unmatched abilities.
Planning is essential thing to begin the day with. No goal can be achieved without appropriate planning. This will also let you know your distance from the goal and steps to be taken to achieve it. On the contrary life without a goal will eventually lead you back to square one.
Address: 8982 McCowan Road, moved to 2 David Gohn Circle
Built in 1864, the George B. Quantz House located at 2 David Gohn Circle offers both architectural and historical significance for Markham's early history. George B. Quantz was a descendent of Melchoir Quantz. Melchoir Quantz fought for the British during the American Revolution before joining William Berczy and several Pennsylvanian-German families who travelled north to settle in Markham in 1794. This one-and-a-half storey Classic Revival structure includes Italianate features, which is notable due to their rarity in early Markham buildings. Covered in wooden clapboard with a low-pitch gable roof, this house sits on a concrete foundation since being moved to Markham Heritage Estates in the 1990s. The George B. Quantz House remains as the only surviving remnant of a small hamlet that once existed on 7th Concession Road now known as McCowan Road and in 1991 became a designated heritage property under the Ontario Heritage Act.
Photo courtesy of City of Markham.
Sources
City of Markham Bylaw 272-91 The George B. Quantz House heritage designation
Skills Matter - F# eXchange 6th-7th April 2017 in London at CodeNode. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8053-f-sharp-exchange-2017. Images Copyright of www.edtelling.com
Ronald Chandler, Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles Unified School District discusses Los Angeles schools' IT Strategic Execution Plan at the GovWin State and Local Executive Breakfast featuring City and County of Los Angeles’ top technology leaders.
Falgun Dharia is an individual with exceptional mental abilities and skills and brings his exhaustive experience of more than 15 years in the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) and hospitality industry.
Suzanne Skeete, a business consultant, trainer and mentor has taken her own E-Scan and is reflecting on how she feels using E-Scan going forward will help her improve the effectiveness of her services towards entrepreneurs and the benefits it will bring - increased sales.
Mr. Falgun Dharia is the proud founder of the company titled Achiver 1, LLC, in New Jersey, where he is serving as the responsible principal. It is a multi-million dollar franchise consultancy and development firm.
SKILLSCAST - Kent Beck on Explore, Expand and Extract (3X). 7th March 2017 in London at CodeNode. skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9881-kent-beck-on-explore-ex.... Images Copyright of www.edtelling.com
It isn’t easy operating amid poverty, isolation and lawlessness. But some companies have figured it out. An interview with Lars Stork featured on Wall Street Journal August 2009 Edition
Read full article here: Lessons From the Developing World - Part 1
Presentation slide from Chris Dixon, Sr. Manager, State & Local Industry Analysis, Deltek, at the State & Local Executive Breakfast: Los Angeles, 2012.
Address: 7450 Reesor Road
The Samuel Reesor House located at 7450 Reesor Road was built in the 1840s as a large two-storey, three-bay wide dwelling. The original Reesor house was constructed of local fieldstone in the Georgian style. The house's current Edwardian style is credited to a fire that nearly destroyed the building in the 1920s. The house was remodeled while incorporating much of the original structure with Edwardian influences, which was popular at the time in the 1920s. This house holds historical value as the Reesor family was prominent in Markham's early history. Samuel Reesor helped his father, Peter Reesor, operate a saw and flour mill on the Rouge River. The house remained in the Reesor family until 1945. The Samuel Reesor House stands as a significant architectural landmark for the community of Cedar Grove and became a designated heritage property in 2004 under the Ontario Heritage Act.
Photo courtesy of City of Markham.
Sources
City of Markham, Heritage Services - Register of Property of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest
City of Markham Bylaw 2004-106 The Samuel Reesor Homestead heritage designation
When understanding how entrepreneurs think and how it applies to business success, coaches, mentors and advisers really have an impact in their work.
DATA IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE.
And publicly available data can now illuminate solutions to challenges like no other time in our history. There is no single entity that collects and manages more data than government. Unfortunately, many of the systems and processes that collect this data have not kept up with the demand and the potential for it.
The world-wide Open Data movement asks government entities of all sizes to make their data—a public asset—available to developers and entrepreneurs so its potential can be realized.
Go Code Colorado is taking a lead position in this movement.
The first and only statewide effort of its kind, Go Code Colorado brings together a community of entrepreneurs, business partners, and developers to make use of public data through a series of events. These events center around a challenge weekend in five cities across the state, engaging the entire state in two days of innovation around the use of public data. Teams in each of the five cities compete to build apps that use public data to help businesses make smarter decisions. Two teams from each city move on in the competition, getting help from a network of mentors—including a mentorship weekend in Boulder—as they further develop their ideas. The teams come back together again for a final event where they pitch their ideas to judges.
The three teams deemed the best are awarded a contract with the state—an invaluable first customer to a fledgling business that provides critical initial revenue.
Go Code Colorado is an initiative through the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, which seeks to return value to Colorado businesses from business registration fees they collect. In its inaugural year, this is the value Go Code Colorado returned to our state:
COMMUNITY BUILDING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Go Code Colorado increased civic engagement in the business, entrepreneurial, and tech communities.
Business leaders volunteered their time across the event series because they desire more access to government data—they know how important this is.
Dozens of business leaders volunteered a day with Go Code Colorado organizers to define the problems they face that public data can help solve.
179 people attended the Kickoff event.
130 people and 25 teams competed in the challenge weekend across Colorado (Boulder, Denver, Ft. Collins, Colorado Springs, and Durango).
The Mentor Weekend brought together 23 mentors to meet with ten teams.
The Final event attracted 223 people.
29 businesses supported open data and Go Code Colorado through $75,000 in cash donations and $120,000 worth of in-kind donations.
Companies like Google, Esri, SendGrid, Rally Software and Gnip (now Twitter)
TECH AND BUSINESS INNOVATION
Go Code Colorado is the most concerted effort in the state to increase the volume of public data in the state’s central repository.
33 new data sets were published as a result of last year’s efforts by agencies such as Revenue, Local Affairs, and Higher Education.
At least three businesses were created around three apps that use this data.
For instance, the winning team, Beagle Score created an app that helps provide a scorecard for business site-location decisions.
Beagle Score relies on many public data sets, including:
Business Registration dataset
City Taxes
County Taxes
Crime Statistics
NREL energy statistics
Traffic counts
Nearest Intersection
Energy rates and providers
Broadband service
and more
PROCUREMENT INNOVATION
Go Code Colorado is flipping traditional government procurement on its head, creating value to Colorado businesses and society.
According to the Standish Group, 94% of large federal IT projects over the past ten years were unsuccessful. Over 50% were delayed, over budget, or didn’t meet user expectations, and 41% failed completely.
Go Code Colorado challenges developers and entrepreneurs to solve business problems using public data by awarding companies who create working apps, not those with just a promise to do so.
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AND TRANSPARENCY
Go Code Colorado imagines a day when pulling a data report is a matter of a few pop up menu selections, and doesn’t require specialized knowledge, when data managers across government are able to focus on the work they do best and anyone can access the public data they collect and curate.
This is the promise of open data, and the step forward taking place with Go Code Colorado.
Skills Matter - F# eXchange 6th-7th April 2017 in London at CodeNode. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8053-f-sharp-exchange-2017. Images Copyright of www.edtelling.com
Panelists
Panelists at the GovWin State and Local Executive Breakfast featuring City and County of Los Angeles’ top technology leaders: Ronald Chandler, Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles Unified School District; Richard Sanchez, Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles County; and Randi Levin, Chief Information Officer, City of Los Angeles