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David Pescovitz, October 13, 2009

Last week, New York City, like Vancouver and San Francisco earlier this year, unveiled its plan to use open data to make the city government more transparent and spur civic involvement. They used the classic (now cliche?) Web 2.0 tactic to encourage engagement: a contest. The curely named NYC BigApps Contest is intended to "stimulate innovation in the information technology and media industries, and attract and support developer talent to develop web and mobile applications (apps) by using City data. These apps will benefit the City and its citizens and demonstrate the increasing accessibility and transparency of City government." The public data is available for mashing and munging in the NYC Data Mine.

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