$10,000 Prize For Connecting Businesses With Government Data

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 4, 2012 @03:02AM from the working-for-the-man dept.

First time accepted submitter InsertCleverUsername writes "The Department of Commerce has announced a $10,000 contest for developers making apps to utilize Commerce and other publicly available data and information to support American businesses. Developers must use at least one Department of Commerce dataset to create an application that assists businesses and/or improves the service delivery of Business.USA.gov to the business community. Developers may choose any platform. A list of developer-friendly data sets can be found on the Business Data and Tools page of Data.gov."

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Just in case you wondered by Opportunist · 2012-03-04 03:12 · Score: 1, Funny

what government needs all the info about you for.

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Wikileaks? by Alex+Belits · 2012-03-04 03:22 · Score: 4, Funny

I mean, they do it already.

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how about just doing your jobs? by decora · 2012-03-04 03:56 · Score: 3, Funny

the way i hear it, thousands of government bureaucrats get a $40,000 "prize" every year, whether they actually accomplish this goal or not.