Here’s an opportunity for coders, developers, mashup artists or ?? on the Front Range – enter GoCode Colorado. The Kick off event is March 19
GoCode Colorado is an apps challenge designed to make public data more accessible and user-friendly. Teams of entrepreneurs and developers across the state will compete to solve business problems and grow our economy, by building apps that will help Colorado companies thrive. The Challenge starts in five locations across the state– Boulder, Colorado Springs, Durango, Ft. Collins and Grand Junction — and continues with a Mentor Check-in and a Finalist Competition in Denver. The three finalist apps judged to be the best will take home $25,000, $15,000 or $10,000 in incentives on May 9th.
In support of Go Code Colorado, several State agencies have agreed to share datasets and have them published to the Colorado’s open data portal:
- Secretary of State’s Office
- Department of Higher Education
- Department of Local Affairs
- Department of Labor and Employment / Labor Market Information
- Department of Regulatory Affairs
Colorado’s open data portal is called the Colorado Information Marketplace (or CIM). Based on the Socrata platform, it provides a dataset catalog, dataset repository, an API and several tools for exploring and visualizing data.
All of the data we collect is aggregated, reviewed and reformatted (if necessary) to make it as easy to work with as possible before being housed on the Colorado Information Marketplace.
