{"id":8310,"date":"2018-10-19T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/?page_id=8310"},"modified":"2018-11-08T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:12:17","slug":"open-provinces-app-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/openstateninformatie\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Provinces App-Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

App-developers can win a prize of 30.000 euros for the best app-idea that will help citizens, journalists and other interested people to follow the decision-making of five Dutch provinces.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>From the 1st of November people can participate in the Open Provincies App-Challenge and submit their app-idea. On the 12th of December a jury will choose the best idea. In March, before the provincial elections, the winning app will officially be launched.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

All information about the challenge can be found on:<\/strong> https:\/\/challenge.openstateninformatie.nl\/ <\/a><\/span>
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Provincial open data available<\/h4>\n

The Dutch provinces of Flevoland, Limburg, North-Holland, Utrecht and South-Holland have released the data of their States-Provincial as\u00a0open data<\/a><\/u>. These data hold bills, amendments, decisions and minutes. Citizens, journalists, members of the States-Provincial and anyone else can view this information via the Open Stateninformatie Search Engine<\/a>. With the winning app the data of the five Provincial-Estates must be easier to follow.<\/p>\n

App-Challenge<\/h4>\n

Now the information is available as open data, app-developers can use this information for new purposes. With the app-challenge the five provinces challenge developers to send in their ideas to make it easier to follow provincial decision-making for citizens, journalists and other interested people. The provincies have a development-budget of 30.000 euros available for the winner of the app-challenge to build to app.<\/p>\n

Submissions will be opened on the 1st of November<\/h4>\n

From the 1st of November app-developers can submit their ideas through the website challenge.openstateninformatie.nl. The deadline for submitting is the 9th of December. A professional jury will review all the submissions and choose a winner. The winning app will be launched just before the provincial elections in March 2019.<\/p>\n

National Action Plan on Open Government<\/h4>\n

Since the beginning of this year 108 municipalities release their council-data as open data<\/a> in cooperation with the Association of Dutch Municipalities and Open State Foundation. For the municipal elections the website\u00a0WaarOverheid.nl<\/a><\/u> was build. This website places the council-data on a map of your neighborhood with the help of smart algorithms. From the Dutch National Action Plan on Open Government<\/a>, that was launched on the 18th of October 2018, municipalities and provinces will cooperate to make their decision-making information available as open data. These governments are working together on standardizing the data and scaling up the project. In this way decision-making will be more transparant in the future and with the re-use of these data democracy can be strengthened.<\/p>\n

Kick-off on the 9th of November and more information<\/b><\/h4>\n