“NYC BigApps”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Results & challenges

Year

Produced By

Number of Applicants

Winners

2009

ChallengePost

WayFinderNYC, Taxihack, Big Apple Ed, Trees Near You, NYC Way, PushPinWeb, UpNext 3D NYC, Actuatr, New York City Parks and Recreation Online, Bookzee

2010

ChallengePost

Roadify, Sportaneous, Parking Finder, Appetition, cultureNOW, Weels, NextStop, DontEat.at, NYC Data Web, NYCPlanIt

2011

ChallengePost

NYCFacets, Work+, The Funday Genie, Embark NYC, 596 Acres, Sage, TestFlip, ParkAlly, Uhpartments, New York Trip Builder, Scene Near Me

2013

CollabFinder

118

HealthyOut, Poncho, Hopscotch, SolarList, Hired in NY, Helping Hands, Child Care Desk

2014

HR&A Advisors

N/A

2019

SecondMuse

N/A

Some contest winners have gone on to become viable companies. For example, MyCityWay, was a contest winner in 2010.^[2] MyCityWay subsequently raised venture capital funding from FirstMark Capital and IA Ventures, as well as a strategic investment from BMW. ^[3] Embark NYC, the mass transit application which won Best Mobility App in the NYC BigApps 3.0 competition, received investment from BMW i Ventures in 2012 and was acquired by Apple in 2013.^[4]

Yet like many app competitions driven by government data, many of the winning apps have not developed into viable companies. One challenge that civic hacking competitions face is that “they rely on programmers to define problems, instead of citizens or even government itself.” ^[5] Hana Schank wrote of the 2011 contest that “the problem with the [2011] BigApps contest is that it leaves both user needs and likely user behavior out of the equation, instead beginning with an enormous data dump and asking developers to make something cool out of it”. ^[6]

Recognizing these challenges, the 2013 BigApps competition introduced specific problem briefs organized around five “BigIssues” related to issues affecting New York City: Jobs and Economic Mobility, Cleanweb: Energy, Environment, and Resilience, Healthy Living, and Lifelong Learning. The competition also included events where organizations and City agencies versed in a “BigIssue” presented data sets and ideas to competitors.

Contest judges

Dawn Barber, Co-founder, New York Tech Meetup; John Borthwick, CEO, Betaworks; Chris Dixon, CEO & Co-founder, Hunch; Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square, and Co-founder, Twitter; Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure; Lawrence Lenihan, Founder, CEO and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital; Naveen Selvadurai, Co-founder, Foursquare; Steven Strauss, Managing Director, NYCEDC; Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Director, All Things Digital; Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures.^[7]

References

1. ^{{cite web|last=WORTHAM|first=JENNA|title=New York City Wants You to Create an App For That|url=https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/new-york-city-wants-you-to-create-an-app-for-that/|publisher=The New York Times. 6 Oct 2009|accessdate=5 June 2013}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=MyCityWay|url=http://www.crunchbase.com/company/my-city-way|publisher=CrunchBase. 11 April 2013|accessdate=5 June 2013}}
3. ^{{cite web|last=Wauters|first=Robin|title=BMW Teams Up With, Invests $5 Million In MyCityWay|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/25/bmw-teams-up-with-invests-5-million-in-mycityway/|publisher=TechCrunch. 25 Feb 2011|accessdate=5 June 2013}}
4. ^http://letsembark.com/. March 24, 2014.
5. ^ Anthony M. Townsend, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, 2013
6. ^ Hana Schank, "New York City’s Digital Deficiency ". Fast Company. December 14, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
7. ^{{cite web|title=MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF NYC BIGAPPS 2.0 COMPETITION|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2011a/pr104-11.html|publisher=NYC.gov. 31 March 2011|accessdate=5 June 2013}}

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