NYC BigApps 3.0 has issued a call for submissions: “NYC BigApps 3.0 offers $50,000 in cash and other prizes to software developers for the best new apps that utilize NYC Open Data to help NYC residents, visitors, and businesses. BigApps 3.0 continues New York City’s ongoing engagement with the software developer community to improve the City, building on the first two annual BigApps competitions through new data, prizes, and resources. Submissions can be any kind of software application — for the web, a personal computer, a mobile device, SMS, or any software platform broadly available to the public.”

The announcement states, “Submissions for NYC BigApps 3.0 are due by 5pm EST on January 25, 2012. NYC BigApps 3.0 is open to individual developers, as well companies and non-profits with fewer than 50 employees. Official competition rules, as well as additional information and updates can be found on the competition website: www.NYCBigApps.com.”

It adds, “NYCEDC and the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication have worked with 63 City agencies, Commissions, and Business Improvement Districts across the City to provide the 237 new data sets available on the recently updated NYC Open Data site, formerly known as the NYC Data Mine. The information will be available for download at NYC Open Data at www.nyc.gov/data. In addition, as part of the City’s ongoing efforts to increase transparency in City government, the data will remain accessible to the public after the completion of the BigApps 3.0 Competition.”

Learn more here.

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