Hmmm. Veeeery interestink. Some of this data might well be useful for an ITA database task!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Donna Benjamin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donna@cc.com.au">donna@cc.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">----- Forwarded by David Thomas/MMV/DSD on 01/03/2010 09:45 AM -----<br>
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Hi all,<br>
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App My State is officially open! Check out the media release below,<br>
competition website, data.vic.gov.auand follow us on Twitter @appmystate<br>
for details.<br>
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<a href="http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/app-my-state.html" target="_blank">http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/app-my-state.html</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.data.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">http://www.data.vic.gov.au</a><br>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/appmystate" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/appmystate</a><br>
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Cheers<br>
<br>
Luella<br>
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Media release From the Premier of Victoria<br>
<br>
Friday, 26 February, 2010<br>
<br>
APP MY STATE COMPETITION KICKS OFF WITH $100,000 IN PRIZES<br>
<br>
Premier John Brumby today launched the world’s biggest apps competition<br>
App My State and encouraged entries from Victoria’s IT experts and<br>
novices alike.<br>
<br>
Mr Brumby said the App My State competition would encourage Victorians<br>
to create new and innovative ways to use government information and<br>
provide services to help other Victorians.<br>
<br>
“The contest is open to all Victorian residents and offers a share in<br>
the $100,000 in prizes for individuals or teams to build the best new<br>
applications for Victorians,” Mr Brumby said.<br>
<br>
“Today we are also releasing over 90 Victorian Government datasets to<br>
encourage new applications to be created.”<br>
<br>
Mr Brumby said the datasets can be found at <a href="http://www.data.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">www.data.vic.gov.au</a> from<br>
today.<br>
<br>
Information and Communication Technology Minister John Lenders said the<br>
competition would encourage talented Victorians to combine their<br>
innovative ideas with their ICT skills to create useful solutions to<br>
life’s little problems.<br>
<br>
“The grand prize winner will receive $35,000 in cash prizes – the<br>
largest prize pool awarded in this type of competition in the world. The<br>
judges will also award a second place prize of $15,000 and a third place<br>
of $10,000,” Mr Lenders said.<br>
<br>
“Those under 26 are also eligible to win $15,000 in prizes, with the top<br>
prize awarded $5,000 in cash and a $5,000 hi-tech pack featuring a Cisco<br>
Flip Video camcorder, Apple MacBook Pro, PlayStation 3, Apple iPhone<br>
16GB and the second prize awarded a hi-tech pack.<br>
<br>
“All entries will also be eligible for a $10,000 Popular Choice prize,<br>
which rewards the most popular applications as voted on by the Victorian<br>
public.”<br>
<br>
Mr Lenders said additional prizes would also be awarded to entrants who<br>
simply came up with innovative ideas for new applications.<br>
<br>
“The competition is not limited to those with tech skills – we also have<br>
a category for the best ideas, with prizes worth up to $1,000 to be<br>
won,” Mr Lenders said.<br>
<br>
“We have recruited some of Victoria’s leading innovators to judge the<br>
competition - Peter Williams - web 2.0 guru and Director at Deloitte<br>
Digital, Marc Edwards from iPhone application developer Bjango, Kate<br>
Kendall from Niche Media and Georgia Webster from RRR’s Byte into IT –<br>
and I am a judge too.”<br>
<br>
Mr Lenders said the judges would be looking for unique applications that<br>
pay particular attention to innovation, design and development,<br>
usefulness, accessibility and general excellence.<br>
<br>
Minister for Innovation, Environment and Climate Change Gavin Jennings<br>
called on Victorians to get behind the competition.<br>
<br>
“We are also offering a special $10,000 sustainability category for apps<br>
that look at ways to encourage Victorians to be more environmental<br>
sustainability in the home, business or community,” Mr Jennings said.<br>
<br>
Entries close at noon on Friday 23 April 2010. To read the full rules of<br>
the competition and to App My State<br>
<a href="http://visitwww.premier.vic.gov.au/premier/app-my-state.html" target="_blank">visitwww.premier.vic.gov.au/premier/app-my-state.html</a><br>
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