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The competition marks the first time the World Bank, an international institution that makes loans to developing countries, made available its catalogue of development data to the general public.
Time is drawing to an end in the first ever U.S. Energy Department’s Apps for Energy competition. Launched a little over a month ago, the crowdsourcing initiative offers $100,000 in prizes to...
The software called “Access Together” is a Foursquare-style app that allows users to check-in from various locations and answer simple questions about accessibility. The crowd-sourced information...
uTest, a company known for providing a variety of testing solutions for desktop, web and mobile, is launching a new solution designed to grade mobile apps’ performance under real-world...
Last week, the company announced that its plan to develop an innovative new crowdsourcing platform to help independent game makers build, publish and market the next wave of fun and exciting...
The partnership between m:lab East Africa and Grow VC international aims to address the challenge of mismatched levels of financing needs. Grow VCs crowdfunding platform is also a nurturing...
The main event is the Ericsson Application Award, which is an annual competition for application developers on the Android platform. Ericsson Labs also runs other competitions based on the...
Open innovation is essential to smart grid development in the United States, stressed U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park at Tuesday’s Connectivity Week conference.
There are several crowd-funding platforms exclusively focused on apps who have been successful like Appbackr, and AppsFunder, but neither offer the in-app mockup capabilities available on...
In addition to this app development partnership, Applits and Buzztouch have engaged in a joint marketing effort. The two services complement each other very well, and this fact is being advertised...
The Heritage Provider Network Health Prize ( http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp ) which is running a data mining competition for $3 Million USD. As part of this competition Clockworkapps...
The House of Representatives is expected to hear a resolution to launch a technology Open Innovation competition for students, which would initially encourage them to develop apps for smartphones...
During the first phase of the challenge, developers worked with end users, via a crowdsourcing platform called Health Tech Hatch (HTH), to build a working prototype. More than 160 individuals...
For this year's NYC Big Apps 2.0 competition grand prize winner, Roadify, the increased awareness of their commuter-support platform means big improvements: more people participating and...
The Local Council's app competition is designed to show off Hackney when it welcomes an unprecedent level of visitors to the borough and provides an opportunity for local app developers to...
This guest post comes to Crowdsourcing.org from Brian Koles of ChallengePost, a platform for contests and competitions in software development and open government. He offers us half a dozen tips for conducting a public competition that will get results.
Open innovation is rapidly changing the way organizations tackle tough problems. Even the United States government loves open innovation, using its Challenge.gov platform to monitor pollution, improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and crowdsource a “next-generation” combat vehicle, among other initiatives.
ChallengePost, which runs Challenge.gov for the federal government in addition to software competitions for private companies, firmly believes that competition breeds innovation. We spoke with Brian Koles, business development manager at ChallengePost, who explained the myriad benefits of open innovation.
AppsFunder is a crowdfunding-site 100% focused on the mobile app - business. Developers can receive pledges for developing new apps for Android, Apple iOS. Backers make money from the sales on...
The new contest, called Hacking Education: A Contest for Developers and Data Crunchers, inviteS contestants to use DonorsChoose's data to create new analyses or apps for their website. The...
Applits is a company that allows the everyday smartphone user who does not have the time, money, or coding knowledge to make an app, to submit their brilliant app idea into a monthly competition to...
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