NDRC to host Open Data 18-hour Challenge

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21 June 2011

Developers and entrepreneurs will have the chance to compete in Ireland’s first ever Open Data 18-hour Challenge at the NDRC on 4-5 July.

Supported by Microsoft and the Irish Internet Association, participants will be working with data provided by partners Dublin City and Fingal County Council.

Working in mixed teams with facilitators from NDRC’s Inventorium programme, product and graphic designers and local council experts, participants will brainstorm, generate and prototype new business ideas based on the Council’s open data sets in areas such as environment, housing and transport can be used to develop commercially viable businesses.

Already active internationally, the Open Data movement’s goal is to utilise public data that governments hold in new ways with the aim of stimulating new economic activity, innovation and competition.

Speaking about the challenge, Dr. Teresa Dillon of NDRC’s Inventorium programme
said: “Ireland is playing catch up to a lot of other cities and countries in this space and we believe there is much untapped potential here. With our track-record in supporting the development of great new digital ideas, we expect to produce applications that will have real business potential.”

The event is free to attend, and the best ideas will receive follow up commercial development support from NDRC/Inventorium. For more, visit www.inventorium.org.

Niall Kitson

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