The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched a new contest, Apps 4 Germany. According to the article, “The Contest is organised by three civil society organisations (The Open Data Network, the Gov2.0 Network and the German Chapter of the OKFN) in cooperation with BITKOM (Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media) under the auspices of of the Ministry of the Interior (BMI). The launch was celebrated at the Modern State fair with a speech by the Minister of the Interior, Hans Peter Friedrich. The best Apps will be presented and rewarded at CEBit 2012.”

It continues, “The Apps 4 Germany contest will feature new and stunning applications, developed using German Public Sector Information recently opened up for re-use. All data will be released under CC-BY and can be accessed through www.offenedaten.de the unofficial German Open Data Catalogue run by OKF DE using CKAN.”

The article notes, “The contest is open to everyone, even outside Germany. The only limitation: the application must use openly licensed data from German authorities. The competition also sets a spotlight on the release of Data. The organisers encourage Public Sector Bodies in Germany to contribute to the competition by opening up their data. A special price will be awarded in the category “Data” to a Public Sector Body.”

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