The Finnish government and municipalities are publishing more and more open data on the internet for everyone to see and use. Open data has been published from public transport journey planners to library collections and map databases to regional income data.
- Idea Category - Take part in the competition by sharing your ideas of utilising open data. You will help developers find interesting application and visualizing opportunities.
- Application Category - Take part in the competition with your application which utilises open data.
- Visualisation Category - Participate in the competition by a visualization of open data, or by an application for data journalists.
- Data Category looks for competition entries which have made data more publicly available. These entries can include publishing of open data or the editing and transforming data into a form which can be publicly used more easily.
Important dates
Submission period:
Start: Jun 10, 2011 02.00 PM End: Oct 23, 2011 03.00 PM
Judging period:
Start: Oct 24, 2011 09.00 AM End: Nov 18, 2011 05.00 PM
Finalists are published Nov 11, 2011
Public voting period:
Start: Jun 10, 2011 02.00 PM End: Nov 18, 2011 05.00 PM
Winners announced:
Nov 22, 2011 in Helsinki
Prizes
| Idea Category | Application Category | Visualization Category | Data Category |
| 1000€ | 3000€ | 2000€ | Certificate of honour of open data for public sector institutions |
| 500€ | 2000€ | 1000€ | Private sector 1000€ |
| 300€ | 1000€ | 500€ | Private sector 500€ |
In addition to the regular categories, there are some special prizes:
- Special Prize for Data Journalism donated by Helsingin Sanomat 3000€ - This prize will be awarded to the competition entry which develops an application that can be used in data journalism, interactive graphics or visualization. Special emphasis will be given to entries which utilise open data. Of the Data Journalism category, the top five competitors will be invited to present their entries to the editorial staff of Helsingin Sanomat.
- Special Prize of Utilising Data of Yleisradio, 2000€ - This prize will be awarded to the entry which finds the best way of utilising open data published by Yleisradio (Public Broadcasting Company, in Finnish)
- Special Prize for Cultural Data 1000€ - This prize will be awarded to a mobile application, a visualization or a mashup related to literature, music, console games, dramatic art or other fields of culture. The entries should utilise at least data from public online library Helmet and possibly other cultural data or web interfaces.
- Maps4Finland Special Prize 2000€ - will be awarded to the entry that best utilise open spatial data. Open spatial data finalists will be invited to present their entries at GIS EXPO 2011 on November 1-2, 2011, the largest Finnish event in the field of geographic information.
Moreover, competitors of the Idea and Data Category have the chance to win 500 euros if they have granted their idea or data source to a winning entry in the Application Category.
Voting of entries can be done until November 18th 2011 on the Apps4Finland website. A 200 euro award will be granted to those with the most public votes.
Participate
- Idea Category Participation Form
- Application Category Participation Form
- Visualization Category Participation Form
- Data Category Participation Form
Entries will be published on the website shortly after we have received them. Public voting will begin straight after the entry has been published on the site.
Jury
- Jyrki J.J. Kasvi (TIEKE, Finnish Information Society Development Centre)
“Kuntien ja valtion tietokantojen uumenissa piileskelee hiomattomia jalokiviä, joita me vasta alamme oppia löytämään ja hiomaan uusiksi palveluiksi. Mahdollisuudet ovat lähes rajattomat!”
- Antti Eskola (Ministry of Employment and the Economy)
“Julkisen sektorin tietoaineistojen jatkokäytön edistäminen kuuluu virkatehtäviini. Tuomarina toimiminen tarjoaa hyvän näkymän siihen, millä vauhdilla hyödyllisiä ja hauskoja sovelluksia ja palveluja syntyy, kunhan tietoa vain saatetaan helposti saataville.”
- Kari Haakana (Yleisradio)
- Pekka Koponen (Forum Virium Helsinki)
“Aikaisemmat kilpailut ovat tuoneet riemastuttavan määrän osaamista laajempaan tietoisuuteen. Osallistujat ovat myös keskenään löytäneet uusia yhteistyömahdollisuuksia. Uskon ja toivon että näin käy tälläkin kertaa.”
- Karoliina Luoto (Sitra – Finnish Innovation Fund)
“Toivon että kilpailu auttaa mahtavia palvelukonsepteja pulpahtelemaan yleiseen tietoisuuteen, ihanniin kuin muutenkin viime vuosina on käynyt.”
- Roope Mokka (Demos Helsinki)
- Antti Pakarinen (Kirjastot.fi)
“Avoin data avaa palveluiden kehittämisen – myös datan avaajien organisaatioissa!”
- Ville Peltola (IBM)
“Avoin data on merkityksellisempi asia kuin moni vielä ymmärtää ja hyvillä ideoilla ja sovelluksilla voi oikeasti vaikuttaa yhteiskunnallisesti hyvinkin paljon.”
- Antti Poikola (HILA Open Oy)
“Avoimen datan hyötykäytön alueella otetaan maailmanlaajuisesti vasta ensiaskelia, mutta vahva paikallinen toimijaverkosto on se pohja, josta hittituotteet syntyvät, kun aika on kypsä.”
- Taru Rastas (Ministry of Transport and Communications)
“Avoimen datan asialla on nostetta, joten hyvät sovellukset saavat nyt näkyvyyttä.”
- Timo Rinne (Ilta-Sanomat)
“Mielenkiintoisten ja hyödyllisten sovellusten rakentaminen on muuttunut viime vuosina suoraviivaisemmaksi ja helpommaksi parempien kehitys- ja jakelualustojen myötä ja avoin data tarjoaa hyvää sisältöä. Odotan mielenkiinnolla millaisia uusia innovatiivisia ratkaisuja kilpailussa syntyy.”
- Ari Tammi (Finnish Association for Online Democracy)
“Kilpailu tarjoaa aidosti mahdollisuuden tuottaa jotakin merkittävää suomalaiselle ja miksei kansainvälisellekin digitaaliselle kulttuurille.”
- Tuuli Toivonen (University of Helsinki)
“Suomalaiset paikkatiedot ovat vasta nyt avautumassa rajapintojen kautta sovelluskehittäjille. Nyt voi olla paalupaikalla uusien ideoiden kanssa!”
- Kim Viljanen (We Love Open Data)
“Avointa dataa voi tarkastella eräänlaisena puutarhana, jossa on datan julkaisijoita, sovellusten tekijöitä, sovellusten käyttäjiä sekä tärkeässä roolissa lannoittajat kuten Apps4Finland-kilpailu.”Organisers
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Rules
- The competition is open for everybody.
- Entries for competition must be published during the year 2011.
- Competition entries which have already entered other competitions earlier in the year 2011 are still accepted.
- Entries should benefit from some open and free Finnish data sources. The web page Datakatalogi(in Finnish) contains a list of suitable data sources. If the some essential data is missing from the list, please contact competition coordinators.
- Entries must be free for everybody to use and download during the competition and at least two months after the competition ends.
- All rights to the competition entry remain the property of the creator.
- Competitors of Idea or Opening of Data Categories are eligible for an additional prize of 500 euros on the following conditions:
- If it is possible to verify that the basic idea of the winning entry in Application category originates from an entry in Idea or Data Categories, the idea will be acknowledged. The competitor of the Application Category must confirm this.
- In unclear cases, the jury will decide whether the competitor participating in Idea or Data categories is eligible for the prize.
- If a competitor of the Idea Category participates in both the Application and Idea Category with the same original idea, this prize will not be granted.
- If a competitor of the Idea Category submits an entry in the Application Category which has the same original idea, the entry for the Idea Category will be rejected and only the entry for the Application Category will be accepted.
- We may define additional details to the rules of the competition, so please keep checking the rules every now and then.
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