Danish Competition Winners Announcement Imminent
Source: Digitaliser, Denmark
Winners to be announced at ODIS Conference (Offentlige data i spil – initiativet) (Government Data in games) 4 February 2010
Copenhagen: 20 January 2010
Digitaliser.dk has published a news update about the Offentlige data i spil – initiativet (Government Data in games) competition – about innovative best proposals for digital solutions based on government data.
- The competition was launched by the Danish Science Minister Helge Sander during October 2009. The Ministry of Science - Danish National IT and Telecom Agency facilitated the competition. The Competition is one initiative by the Danish Government work on opening up government data and promoting re-use.
- Presentations and the prizes will be awarded to the winners at the ODIS (Offentlige Data I Spil Konference) (Government Data in Games Conference) on the 4 February 2010, Copenhagen. The conference programme has an exciting line up of speakers and will cover concrete examples of innovation based on using public data including discussions about the business potential of re-using PSI and the international experience in this field.
- The winners will be supported with an award (grant) of a maximum of 100,000 Danish Kroner to bring their ideas to reality.
- Registration for the ODIS Conference is open.
The Digitaliser.dk news announcement about the competition entitled: “The judges have selected the three winners” states (English Translation below) (Danish text online):
“The external panel of competition judges has selected the 3 winning projects and the winners have just been told. Information about the competition has been published (more information here) with forthcoming presentations to be made to the winning entries at the ODIS Conference on the 4th February 2010.
Assessment
Each judge has read and reviewed all project applications before the judging panel was convened, voted and selected the three winning projects.
The panel of judges consists of:
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal - web2.0 specialist and founder of the Social Square
Jane Wickmann - director of business development at DTI
Tommy Ahlers - Director and founder of ZYB mobile content
Christian Schwarz Lausten - specialist in user involvement and partner in Seismonaut
Martin von Haller Grønbæk - IT lawyer and partner at Bender von Haller Dragsted
Eva Berneke - member of high speed IC and strategy director at TDC
Tommy Dejbjerg Pedersen - Country Manager GeekHouse
Mette Davidsen-Nielsen (replaces Gitte Rabølle) - former Chief of DR2, now an independent consultant
More about ODIS
To all participants who participated in a project application but did not win, we have a powerful appeal: Go ahead with your ideas - they were really good and although they did not win the competition, many of the ideas can be implemented!
By working with project applications, you have thought through and presented your ideas. This is a good basis for turning the ideas into a reality.
The general government data in made available in the Play initiative aims to make it easier to use public data to precisely the sort of things that your ideas are about. It does not end when the winners have been published and the conference held. We will continue working, and we invite you to participate and contribute and deliver the good, convincing examples of the potential of using public data.”
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