Watch Mayor Bloomberg’s full remarks at this year’s NYC BigApps 3.0 Awards Ceremony. Meet NYC BigApps winners and find out how the annual competition, which challenges developers to create useful apps using City data, is becoming a catalyst for startups and spurring entrepreneurship across the City at our upcoming Internet Week panel on Thursday, May 17th.
Find out more about NYC BigApps competition and this year’s winners at www.nycbigapps.com.
That’s So New York: NYC BigApps 3.0 Competition Awards
The City’s third annual BigApps competition, NYC BigApps 3.0, showcases mobile applications that utilize open data provided by the City. Software developers won $50,000 in cash prizes for designing apps that help New Yorkers apartment hunt, plan a day of leisure, or search for top-grade schools for their kids. Applications that increase public access to real-time civic information, and in turn make living in the Big Apple easier.
Source: nycgov
Infographic: NYC BigApps Winners and Highlights
Betabeat: The 11 Winners of the Third NYC BigApps Contest
Ninety-six apps were submitted to the New York City BigApps competition, a city-run contest that encourages developers to play with government data. The winning apps were eligible to earn up to $50,000 in prize money as well as fame, fortune, and two NY Tech Meetup demo slots, two TechStars finalist spots, and membership in the inaugural mentorship network, BigApps Founders Network. The winner of the Best NYC Mashup, the category for apps that use city data alongside the data of a participating company like Foursquare, the New York Times, or Vimeo, will also get a meeting with the participating company.
